Free Service Improves GP Access For Deaf Patients, UK Deaf patients are now able to enjoy better access to GP services thanks to a new partnership between Sign
Health - the
healthcare charity for Deaf people - and EMIS, the UK's leading provider of GP systems.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOrthokine Treatment Is Effective For Knee Arthritis, Even After Two Years - Long-Study Confirms Effectiveness Of Autologous Therapy The results of a two-year representative study of osteoarthritis of the knee, published in the internationally renowned journal "Osteoarthritis and Cartilage", confirm the safety and effectiveness of Orthokine therapy, in which anti inflammatory proteins obtained from the patient's own blood are injected into the arthritic joint.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPsychotic Symptoms Relieved With Estrogen Treatment The estrogen estradiol, in combination with antipsychotic medications, appears to improve treatment for women with schizophrenia, according to an article releasedon August 4, 2008 in Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Previously, mental illness has been studied in conjunction with many different hormones, especially estrogen in women.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMDL Receives GBP600k In New Funding Round For World-Beating Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment Device Successful results and growing sales of Michelson Diagnostics Ltd's (MDL) Optical Coherence Technology (OCT) systems have encouraged investors to place a further GBP600K into the business to help develop the in vivo technology.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAn Inhaler At A Fraction Of The Price Someday soon, the box of
prescription medicine you
buy from the
drugstore might not contain capsules or pills - instead it may take the form of tiny, credit card-sized inhalers that deliver the medication directly to your lungs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew, Effective Treatment For Presbyopia - Middle Age Need For Reading Glasses Until now, people could expect to need reading glasses or bifocals during or after middle age due to an aging process called presbyopia. But today, according to results from a Midwest eye surgical team led by Robert L.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comC. Elegans Worm Holds Potential For Research Using an unusual model organism for the field, C. elegans, scientists could make great strides investigating depression, schizophrenia, and insomnia in humans, according to an article released on August 4, 2008 in the open access journal PLoS Biology. Caenorhabditis elegans is a microscopic worm often used in developmental biology research.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Data Shows HIV Therapy Tipranavir (Aptivus) Is Effective And Well Tolerated In Children Boehringer Ingelheim presented new 100 week data at the International AIDS Conference demonstrating Aptivus® (tipranavir) long-term efficacy and safety in treatment-experienced children. Results from this two-year study show that Aptivus® enabled the children to achieve sustained virologic and immunologic responses and was a well-tolerated antiretroviral therapy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPresident Calderon Lifts Regulation Requiring AIDS Drug Firms To Have Manufacturing Plants In Mexico In Order To Sell Generic Meds On the day of the opening ceremonies of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, President Felipe Calderon announced his plans to lift a Mexican Ministry of Economy requirement that pharmaceutical companies operating in Mexico must have a manufacturing plant in that country in order to use or sell generic versions of their lifesaving AIDS and other
drugs in Mexico.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
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