HATFIELD, England, September 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FDA approval marks Eisai's continued investment in UK high tech drug manufacturing facility Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai today announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the US supply of the epilepsy drug Fycompa (perampanel) from its EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia and Oceania) Knowledge Centre based in Hatfield, UK. The Hatfield site will manufacture six different strengths of tablet for export to the US. The FDA supply approval for perampanel is the latest in a series of achievements for Eisai in the UK. In addition to its existing EMEA sales and marketing, R&D, and manufacturing operations in Hatfield, Eisai recently announced the construction of new 2,900m2 facility for the global packaging of potent compounds which expands the current 7,800m2 Hatfield site by nearly 40%. The Hatfield site is the Eisai EMEA headquarters and is growing in significance to the company's worldwide business, as it becomes a global supply centre for innovative new products. Perampanel was jointly developed by Japan and the UK and, as a result, Eisai continues its commitment to a long-term global business structure and investment into further research and development in the UK. Gary Hendler, … Continue reading →

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Several years ago Frisco resident Paul Mattson never would have imagined he could use oxygen to fuel his own therapeutic business. A biologist and a chemist by education, Mattson first began exploring the benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in 2008 when his son was diagnosed with autism. Shortly after he purchased his own hyperbaric chamber and opened Mountain Hyperbarics at 101 Main St. in Frisco. During the last five years, Mattson and Jeff Miller, a respiratory therapist and hyperbaric chamber technician, have performed hundreds of treatments, including more than 140 on Mattsons son, and theyre seeing marked improvements in their clients. But Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is still considered an investigative treatment, which means that although it is approved for certain conditions, and may even be covered by health insurance, doctors are still exploring its effectiveness in people with brain disorders, stroke victims or patients undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer, among many other conditions. Even though it hasnt yet been proven as a beneficial treatment across a whole gamut of medical conditions, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy received national attention when it was used to treat soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injuries caused by improvised explosive devices and … Continue reading →

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Among patients with a certain type of bleeding stroke, racial and ethnic differences exist in their outcomes, a large new study finds. Researchers looked at data from more than 31,600 patients treated in U.S. hospitals for subarachnoid hemorrhage between 2005 and 2010. This type of stroke is caused by a ruptured aneurysm -- when a weak spot in one of the blood vessels supplying the brain breaks. The overall death rate among the patients in the study was 22 percent, and 42 percent of them required institutional care after they left the hospital. Compared to white patients, Asian/Pacific Islander patients were more likely to die in the hospital, while Hispanic patients were less likely to die, according to the study, which was published online Sept. 10 in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Black patients were more likely than whites to require institutional care after being discharged from the hospital, but their risk of death while hospitalized was similar to that of white patients, the University of Toronto researchers found. The likelihood of needing institutional care after leaving the hospital was similar among white, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and Native American patients. "[We] believe that there could … Continue reading →

Public release date: 10-Sep-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Meng Zhao eic@nrren.org 86-138-049-98773 Neural Regeneration Research The population of northeastern China has a high incidence of ischemic stroke. Previous studies have shown that intracranial large-artery atherosclerosis is one of the main causes of ischemic stroke, and that the mechanisms are related to inflammation and thrombosis of the affected arteries. A recent study by Lianqiu Min and colleagues from Liaoning Medical University observed the effects of atorvastatin treatment in 89 patients from northeastern China with acute ischemic stroke caused by intracranial large-artery atherosclerosis by measuring changes in the levels of markers of inflammation, thrombogenesis, and hyperlipidemia. The researchers found that atorvastatin treatment decreased the levels of markers of inflammation, thrombogenesis, and hyperlipidemia, suggesting that atorvastatin reduces inflammation and thrombogenesis independent of its lipid-lowering effects in patients with acute ischemic stroke caused by large-artery atherosclerosis. Most previous studies of patients with acute ischemic stroke caused by large-artery atherosclerosis focused mainly on measurement of the level of a single marker such as C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, or D-dimer. The study, reported by Lianqiu Min and colleagues in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 23, 2013), measured all three of these values … Continue reading →

Sir Bruce insisted that patients would not be worried about being treated at home. People trust their GPs, people trust hospitals, but they also trust ambulance services, he said. They are very highly trained people. Theres a big opportunity there for us to see how we can use the expertise the ambulance services have. An NHS England spokesman confirmed that more home treatment was on the table in Sir Bruces review. Fundamental change was needed to meet burdens on A&E departments, he said. It was not clear last night exactly how the policy would work, but one option would be for paramedics to provide heart attack victims with anti-clotting drugs and stabilise them at home, before taking them to a specialist clinic to recover, thereby bypassing accident and emergency. Moving towards more home treatment for acute cases would reverse recent trends in medical practice. Over the past decade paramedics have provided less and less treatment to heart attack victims, and instead take patients directly to specialist heart attack centres where they undergo a procedure to open up a collapsed/blocked artery using a tiny tube. About 100,000 people suffer a heart attack each year, but last year 200 heart attack victims … Continue reading →