Almost 18,000 Americans experience traumatic spinal cord injuries every year. Many of these people are unable to use their hands and arms and can’t do everyday tasks such as eating, grooming or drinking water without help. Using physical therapy combined…
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COVID-19 unmasked: Math model suggests optimal treatment strategies
Getting control of COVID-19 will take more than widespread vaccination; it will also require better understanding of why the disease causes no apparent symptoms in some people but leads to rapid multi-organ failure and death in others, as well as…
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FDA Approves Pediatric Indication for Xeomin (incobotulinumtoxina) for the Treatment of Chronic Sialorrhea
RALEIGH, N.C., December 21, 2020 — Merz Therapeutics announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Xeomin (incobotulinumtoxinA) for the treatment of patients aged 2 years and older with chronic…
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Study identifies distinct sub-types of aggressive tumours to allow for targeted treatment
A new study led by clinician-scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), with collaborators from research institutions worldwide, has found that angiosarcomas have unique genomic and immune profiles which allow them to be classified into three different subtypes. With…
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Potential treatment approach kills lymphoma while sparing healthy cells
Scientists at Scripps Research have demonstrated a promising new strategy for treating lymphomas, a group of cancers that begin in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes. The new approach uses natural cancer-targeting immune cells, known as natural killer…
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Surgical and drug treatment options lead to similar outcomes for diabetic eye disease
Surgical and injectable drug approaches are equally effective for treatment of bleeding inside the eye from proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), according to a National Eye Institute (NEI)-supported clinical study from the DRCR Retina Network (DRCR.net). A consequence of diabetes, PDR…
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Gene could help predict response to cervical cancer treatment
UCLA researchers have identified a potential diagnostic marker that could help predict how likely someone with cervical cancer is to respond to the standard treatment of chemotherapy and radiation. The scientists found that PACS-1, a gene that resides on a…
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New treatment uncovered for AL amyloidosis to be announced
Researchers from SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have shown that isatuximab, a monoclonal antibody approved for the treatment of multiple myeloma, can…
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Hair-like structures in cells of the vessel wall may be relevant for diabetes treatment
A new study from Karolinska Institutet and the Helmholtz Diabetes Research Center shows that primary cilia, hair-like protrusions on endothelial cells inside vessels, play an important role in the blood supply and delivery of glucose to the insulin-producing beta cells…
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Diabetes symptoms type 2: Experiencing polydipsia when drinking is a warning sign
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Type 2 diabetes sends a very clear signal that your insulin production is not functioning properly. However,…
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