Category: Medicine

New push to fight Lyme disease plaguing NJ

There’s good news for New Jerseyans suffering with Lyme disease, and those who may be exposed to it in the future. Congress has passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which calls for the establishment of a Lyme disease working group comprising 14 federal officials, patient advocates and doctors specializing in treating Lyme.

BRIEF-JVM to buy back shares at 2 bln won

Gilead says Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approves co’s Vemlidy for patients with chronic Hepatitis B virus infection * Gilead – Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approves Gilead’s Vemlidy for patients with chronic Hepatitis B virus infection Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

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A Once-Daily Treatment that Demonstrated Comparable Efficacy with Improved Renal and Bone Laboratory Safety Parameters Compared to Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate — )–Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved Vemlidy 25mg, a once-daily treatment for suppression of viral replication in chronic hepatitis B patients with evidence of hepatitis B virus replication and abnormal liver function. Vemlidy is a novel targeted prodrug of tenofovir that has demonstrated antiviral efficacy similar to and at a dose less than one-tenth that of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300mg.

Landmark Alzheimer’s prevention trial to evaluate third drug

An international team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has selected a third investigational drug to be tested in a worldwide clinical trial – already underway – aimed at finding treatments to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The third drug is being developed by Janssen Research & Development, LLC, in New Jersey.

Farmers put on alert as bird flu hits UK poultry

Irish poultry farmers have been put on high alert for avian flu after migratory birds were blamed for an outbreak in the UK. A farm in Louth, Lincolnshire is now under strict quarantine controls as UK agriculture officials attempt to prevent a spread of the H5N8 strain of the bird flu virus.

New warnings about vaping, smoking cigarettes

In a report released Thursday, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy acknowledged a need for more research into the health effects of “vaping,” but said e-cigarettes aren’t harmless and too many teens are using them. “My concern is e-cigarettes have the potential to create a whole new generation of kids who are addicted to nicotine,” Murthy told The Associated Press.

Richland veteran calls for Hepatitis C awareness

Then several years later, after Valimont left Nevada for the Tri-Cities, he got a phone call that stopped him in his tracks. The Las Vegas clinic where he’d gotten the colonoscopy used poor sterilization practices, exposing Valimont and dozens of other patients to Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C can lead to long-term health problems, including liver failure and even death.

Woman is first to have baby with ovaries frozen as a child

A 24-year-old Dubai native has become the first woman to give birth after having her fertility restored from ovarian tissue frozen during her childhood. She is the first person in the world to have had a successful pregnancy using ovarian tissue that was harvested before the onset of puberty and the only person to have her ovaries transplanted back after 13 years in storage.

Special cancer hospital in limbo

… cancer at a very early stage, spending several crores of rupees for the proposed hospital. On August 18 this year, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the 200-bed cancer hospital at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital would be inaugurated …

How to lose weight – and keep it off

… that comes with living an over-stressed lifestyle, according to Professor Selena Bartlett from QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation. But it depends on how a person reacts to stress that determines the outcome of a situation and in …

Sharp rise in premature kidney deaths

… failure deaths in adults with diabetes still in their 40s and 50s,” Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto who led the study, told The Telegraph . “This suggests diabetes in Indian adults is …

Nordic walking sticks can alleviate back, hip and knee pain

Nordic walking sticks, which are known for helping walkers burn more calories than ordinary walking, have been proven by an Israeli research team to alleviate widespread chronic pain in the hips, knees and lower back of older people. The study, whose lead author was Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center retired internal medicine and nephrology specialist Dr. Donald Silverberg, was recently published in the open-access International Journal of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.

Top finishers hit brakes as conditions sap energy

Like everybody else who competed in Saturday’s Jacob Wells 3 Bridges Marathon in Little Rock, top finishers Tyler Pake and Tia Stone worked up a good sweat. At 7 a.m., a field of 403 began their journey with temperatures nearly 40 degrees higher than typical for a mid-December morning in central Arkansas.

Duterte painkiller use draws concern in Philippines

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s admission that he used a powerful painkiller has prompted concern about his health, with lawmakers urging him Sunday to undergo a medical examination and disclose the results. Duterte on Monday revealed that he used to take fentanyl, often prescribed for cancer pain and other chronic ailments, because of a spinal injury from previous motorcycle accidents.

Family of 7-month-old refuse to get son’s liver operation done in Mumbai

With Mumbai unable to match Chennai’s success rate in liver transplants, patients prefer the south for the high-risk surgery; doctors say there are very few specialists in the city While the city is hoping to perform a record-breaking surgery on the world’s heaviest woman, when it comes to life-saving liver surgery, Mumbai lags far behind Chennai. The family of seven-month-old Parth Rajwade is testimony to this.

Diabetic women using IUDs less prone to heart attacks, strokes

New York, Dec 18 : Diabetic women who use contraception measures such as intrauterine devices and under-the-skin implants are less likely to have strokes and heart attacks, researchers have found. [NK Health] The study found these birth control measures are the safest options for women with diabetes than using hormonal contraception.

AMP publishes joint guidelines for interpretation, reporting of sequence variants in cancer

The Association for Molecular Pathology , the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional society, today published guideline recommendations for both clinical laboratory professionals and oncologists that assess the status of next-generation sequencing -based cancer tests and establish standardized classification, annotation, interpretation, and reporting conventions for somatic sequence variants. The new guideline was developed by a Working Group comprised of representatives from major professional associations whose members provide professional testing and treatment services to cancer patients.