SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories collaborated with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the National Cancer Institute in 1992, in an attempt to increase awareness and education about Pap screening. SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories was also the first clinical laboratory network in the country to incorporate the Autopap automated Pap testing technology as part of its quality control procedures. It is important that mothers know that they can help their children by breaking the transmission of the parasite and removing their fear of developing this disfiguring and disabling disease which currently affects more than 120 million people in 73 countries. The treatment program also significantly decreases hookworm and other growth-stunting intestinal parasites that commonly occur in children. We also support specific health issue advocacy groups working in the therapeutic areas, described above.
Women tend to respond to antiemetics to a lesser extent than men do.
The physiologic explanation for this is not clear. Kytril, indicated for the prevention of nausea and vomiting associated with initial and repeat courses of emetogenic chemotherapy, is highly effective in women and has allowed women to tolerate and complete difficult courses of chemotherapy.