To the Editor: As an obstetrician-gynecologist, I object to "a prophylactic in every bedroom drawer," Ross Douthat's summary of the approach my colleagues and I take to preventing unintended pregnancy.
The conservative narrative, by contrast, argues that it's more important to promote chastity, monogamy and fidelity than to worry about whether there's a prophylactic in every bedroom drawer or bathroom cabinet.
The RRT was prophylactic in four cases started when phophatemia was more than 2 mmol/L, and therapeutic for renal failure and established TLS in three cases.
In all other cases, treatment with drugs from any of these three drug categories was considered to be prophylactic in nature.
But he and others are waiting for safety results from a trial of interleukin-12 as an anti-cancer drug before they test its effectiveness as a malaria prophylactic in people.
One drug in this class, olanzapine, an atypical dopamine blocker with relatively low tendency to induce extrapyramidal side effects, has been explored as a potential migraine prophylactic in a retrospective study of 50 migraine patients who had used the drug, usually 5 10 mg per day [81].
