THE DIAS ROUNDS is a discussion of requests for information received by various drug information centers and is edited by the Drug Information Analysis Service at the University of California, San Francisco. This issue features five requests: Beclomethasone Dipropionate in Chronic Asthma, Treatment of Psychosis in Pregnancy, Bromocriptine in Treatment of Depression, Nonoxynol 9 in Herpes, and IV Lidocaine as an Analgesic.
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