Femto Medicine - Part 6776

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Osteoporosis drugs may not be best choice

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

The reputation of bisphosphonates, the most widely prescribed osteoporosis drugs on the market, has taken a beating lately. Last month, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found inconsistencies in the ability of bisphosphonates to reduce fractures and suggested the drugs may not have much benefit for many women. In an accompanying article, researchers questioned whether women who are at a high risk for fractures and are currently taking the drugs would be better off only using them for a short period. The same month, a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found women taking bisphosphonates appear to actually face a higher risk of suffering rare, but very serious, atypical femoral fractures which account for less than 1 per cent of all hip and femur fractures. Unlike most fractures, atypical femoral fractures arent usually the result of a fall or other trauma; the thigh bone appears to snap for no reason. Healing can take months or years and the fractures may lead to complications. Last December, Health Canada announced it was updating the warning label on bisphosphonate drugs in light of evidence they are linked to a higher risk of … Continue reading →

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Kinek offers secure prescription drop-off for online shoppers

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

June 14, 2012 12:18 am By Molly Hensley-Clancy/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Anyone who has ever had a package stolen off the porch or come home to find a fifth missed-delivery notice on the door might appreciate the solution dreamed up by a start-up company out of New Brunswick, Canada. Kinek, founded in 2009, is building a network of locations that online shoppers can use as a drop-off point, a place to send packages instead of risking that new dress or pricey gadget sitting outside for hours until someone gets home. So far, the company has a network of more than 1,100 KinekPoints nationwide -- usually local businesses like pharmacies, flower shops and hardware stores -- that are willing to take deliveries and hold them until the recipients show up to collect the goods. Med-Fast Pharmacy, a Beaver County company with 16 locations in Western Pennsylvania, was the first in the state to join the Kinek network in November. After joining the site for free, Kinek members pick the KinekPoint closest to them and enter the business's address, rather than their own, in the checkout windows of online retailers. The service can be used at all sites, from Amazon to eBay. Kinek users … Continue reading →

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Pharmacy college unveils building

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

WORCESTER As the ceremonial red ribbon fell away today from the new six-story optometry school of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, so too did the fear of a weed-filled abandoned hotel site blighting downtown. What opened in its place at 10 Lincoln Square is a vision of a bustling downtown with continued expansion of economic activity and academic enterprise that will lead to a doubling of the number of MCPHS students in Worcester at a college with the 21st optometry school in the United States. After the old Crowne Plaza went into receivership and closed in 2010, the pharmacy and health sciences college bought the property. The $10 million, 54,000-square-foot building that opened next to the former hotels 243-room, 9-story building will open to students in the four-year optometry program in August. It will feature an optician store with optometrists that will open to the public July 25. There will be 24 examination rooms, each with $85,000 worth of the latest equipment. The 10 Lincoln Square Academic and Student Center facility already houses 200 students. City Manager Michael V. OBrien thanked the colleges trustees and President Charles F. Monahan Jr. that they were standing not in a … Continue reading →

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Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Co-Leads Letter Urging Strongest Patient Engagement & Rare Disease Provisions in …

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

Letter Signed by Nearly 120 Organizations, Latest PDUFA-Oriented Action HACKENSACK, N.J., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), the nation's largest Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne) advocacy organization co-led a letter to key lawmakers that was signed by 119 organizations and that urges Congress to include the strongest patient engagement and rare disease provisions within the final use fee legislation. (Logo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100119/DC39975LOGO) Developed in partnership with the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases and Genetic Alliance, the letter represents the latest of several actions PPMD has engaged in for months as Congress has developed the user fee package. Other groups signing onto the letter include the National Down Syndrome Society, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the American Association on Health and Disability, the National Tourette Syndrome Association, and Special Olympics. The House and Senate both passed user fee bills that included provisions aimed at accelerating Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of therapies to treat rare diseases and to enable FDA to more aggressively engage external experts in reviewing candidate therapies. "The House and Senate should both be commended for including a number of provisions intended to accelerate the development of therapies for patients suffering from rare and life-threatening disorders like … Continue reading →

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Less invasive treatment for epilepsy

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

When Sharon Defeo was a young girl, she experienced a few seizures, but was otherwise happy and healthy. She got married, started a career and raised a family but then, 24 years later, her seizures returned. The seizures lasted about 40 seconds each, during which Defeo would say random words and make motions with her hands. It was happening so frequently and I couldn't control it; I stopped driving, Defeo said. I recognized I have to do something about it, and I was in search of the answer. So at 50 years old, she decided to seek out the help of neurologists at North Shore-LIJ Health System in New York to bring the episodes under control. Doctors diagnosed Defeo with mesial temporal sclerosis, a scarring of the brain in the middle temporal lobe. The condition can cause a type of epilepsy, causing partial seizures that can spread and affect the rest of the brain. Dr. Ashesh Mehta, the director of epilepsy surgery at North Shore-LIJ Health System, recommended surgery to cure Defeos condition. We do know when there is scarring on one side, and the seizures are coming from that side, if we remove that brain area we have a … Continue reading →

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Autism Recovery Using The Son-Rise Program®: Brandon, Recovering From Autism – Video

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

12-06-2012 13:20 - The Autism Treatment Center of America™, founded in 1974 by Samahria Lyte Kaufman and Barry Neil Kaufman, teaches parents a unique autism treatment called The Son-Rise Program®. The Son-Rise Program is a loving, accepting, home based approach that parents use to connect with their children and help them emerge from autism and other developmental disorders. It was awarded the Best Autism Therapy at the AutismOne National Conference. Brandon had been diagnosed with autism when he was two years old and the doctors said that there was nothing they could do. But they didn't give up. They flew from Northern Ireland to Massachusetts to attend the Son-Rise Program® Start-Up Training Course at the Autism Treatment Center of America™. They have been running a Son-Rise Program® in their home, playing and working with Brandon. Now, despite the doctors' predictions, Brandon is recovering from autism! Once he didn't speak. He didn't respond to his name. He spent hours watching the same video over and over, He had no interaction with his parents or anyone else. Now Brandon is in mainstream school. He has conversations, makes jokes and plays with his friends. He is a happy and social young boy. The … Continue reading →

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Iowa’s first ‘stroke robot’ connects patients in Clinton with doctors in Iowa City

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

Dr. Jeffrey Boyle (left) and Dr. Harold Adams, University of Iowa Professor of Neurology and Director of UI Stroke Center, talk with Judy Ross of Clinton, acting as a patient at Mercy Medical Center in Clinton, during a demonstration of the new remote-presence stroke care robot from the Antonio R. Damasio Conference Room at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City to the hospital in Clinton on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. (Liz Martin/The Gazette) Gerri Nichols was able to walk out of the hospital just one week after suffering a stroke. The 69-year-old Clinton woman attributes her recovery to timely diagnosis and treatment, including use of a new stroke robot, the first of its kind in Iowa. That robotic telehealth technology could someday help prevent disabilities and lower health care costs for the 3,000 Iowans who suffer strokes annually. Every year, about 795,000 Americans suffer a stroke, the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. Patients who survive can face paralysis and long-term care needs, with annual medical costs estimated at $73.7 billion nationwide. Neurologists at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics examine and diagnose patients at Mercy Medical Center in Clinton by using the wireless … Continue reading →

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Aiken boxer Paul Williams recovery updated

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

From Staff Reports According to a report from USA Today, boxer Paul Williams is sliding himself in and out of bed after suffering a spinal cord injury May 27. FILE PHOTO Paul Williams Williams, the three-time world champion boxer from Aiken, was paralyzed below his chest when he was thrown more than 100 feet from his motorcycle after losing control on a curve. Williams was diagnosed with a thoracic level (T 10-11) spinal cord injury. He was admitted to Shepherd Centers Spinal Cord Injury Program for care and observation, where doctors have determined an appropriate treatment plan. Williams was undergoing rehabilitation this morning and was unable to attend a press conference, where doctors updated his progress. In a previous article in The Augusta Chronicle, Williams said hes approaching his new obstacle like a title shot with the ultimate goal of proving to the experts he will walk again. Its like were training for a fight, said George Peterson, Williams trainer since he turned professional 14 years ago. Like Paul has been so many times before, he likes proving people wrong. And hes been doubted so many times and proven people wrong so many times, he made a believer out of … Continue reading →

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Teva Pharma To Present Data From Studies Of Azilect And Parkinson's Disease

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

(RTTNews.com) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA) announced that data from studies of Azilect (rasagiline tablets) and Parkinson's disease or PD will be presented at the 16th Annual International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Dublin, Ireland, 17-21 June 2012. The company said the presentations include ongoing studies assessing effects of Azilect treatment on motor and non-motor PD symptoms, both as monotherapy and when added to ongoing dopamine agonist therapy. Azilect tablets (rasagiline tablets) are indicated for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease both as initial therapy alone and to be added to levodopa later in the disease in patients with end-of-dose fluctuations. The company noted that patients should not take Azilect if they are taking meperidine, tramadol, methadone, propoxyphene, dextromethorphan, St. John's wort, cyclobenzaprine, or other monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), as it could result in a serious reaction. Side effects seen with Azilect alone are flu syndrome, joint pain, depression, and indigestion; and when taken with levodopa are uncontrolled movements (dyskinesia), accidental injury, weight loss, low blood pressure when standing, vomiting, anorexia, joint pain, abdominal pain, nausea, constipation, dry mouth, rash, abnormal dreams, and fall. For comments and feedback: contact editorial@rttnews.com http://www.rttnews.com Read … Continue reading →

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Teva Announces AZILECT® (Rasagiline Tablets) Data to Be Presented at the 16th Annual International Congress of …

Posted: Published on June 14th, 2012

JERUSALEM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA) today announced that data from studies of AZILECT (rasagiline tablets) and Parkinsons disease (PD) will be featured at the 16th Annual International Congress of Parkinsons Disease and Movement Disorders in Dublin, Ireland, 17-21 June 2012. More than fifteen abstracts will highlight data from ongoing and completed studies of PD and AZILECT, a MAO-B inhibitor for the treatment of PD, in the areas of pre-clinical, clinical and health economics research. We are proud of the variety of topics and quality of research results that will be presented at MDS this year, said Dr. Michael Hayden, President of Global R&D and Chief Scientific Officer, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. We are committed to ongoing collaboration with academia, medical institutions and patient advocacy groups to continue our understanding of the role AZILECT may play in the treatment landscape for the PD community patients, their families and friends, and healthcare professionals. Presentations include: Ongoing studies assessing effects of AZILECT treatment on motor and non-motor PD symptoms, both as monotherapy and when added to ongoing dopamine agonist therapy: New clinical trial results: ABOUT AZILECT AZILECT tablets (rasagiline tablets) are indicated for the treatment of the signs and symptoms … Continue reading →

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