He was absolutely right. The pills are way more effective than the ointment at a fraction of the cost, plus no greasy mess on ...

"This is an exciting finding, that a cheap over-the-counter antibiotic ointment can stimulate the human body to activate an ...

A 5-gram tube of Zovirax cream runs more than $200. A month’s supply of valacyclovir (500 milligrams) tablets costs between ...

This ointment is available over the counter ... A new 2024 study did find that nasally applied neomycin showed significant antiviral effects. However, the study only had 12 participants and ...

Do not apply mupirocin ointment to skin near an intravenous (IV) site. If your ointment has an ingredient called polyethylene glycol, do not use it on open skin wounds or damaged skin. The ...

At the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health, where she has been since she stopped seeing patients in 2010, Cohen has been working to understand if existing, low-cost antiviral ...

The study examined the long-term use of the existing antiviral treatment valacyclovir, which is already used to initially treat any case of shingles, albeit only for seven to 10 days.

What have been the guiding principles in these achievements and what might the future hold for antiviral drug development? In the late 1970s, the discovery that acyclic nucleoside analogues ...

In a three-year follow-up, 47% had repeated episodes of anterior uveitis. A curcumin 0.5% ointment was tested in an open clinical trial in 62 patients with skin and mucous membrane cancers.

These medications may be antibacterial or antiviral. Topical eye medications typically come in the form of a solution or an ...

"The lesion may have been easily misdiagnosed as a herpetic simplex infection by non-specialists for which treatment would have been topical antiviral ointment instead of removal and antibiotics ...