In the past decade, there has been increased information and knowledge that has enhanced physicians’ understanding of and potential management for neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. Research has shown that these disorders are often characterized by a presymptomatic phase, during which neuronal degeneration is likely…
Boston Scientific Defibrillators Receive CE Mark for Extended Longevity
Boston Scientific Corporation has received CE Mark approval for increased longevity projections for the INCEPTA™, ENERGEN™, PUNCTUA™, COGNIS® and TELIGEN® implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). The longevity projections are based on data submitted to the European authorities and vary for each device dependent on the model…
Scientists Pair Blood Test And Gene Sequencing To Detect Cancer
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have combined the ability to detect cancer DNA in the blood with genome sequencing technology in a test that could be used to screen for cancers, monitor cancer patients for recurrence and find residual cancer left after surgery. “This approach uses the…
ELIQUIS (apixaban) Approved in Europe for Prevention of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer announced today that the European Commission has approved ELIQUIS (apixaban) for prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in adult patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) with one or more risk factors. ELIQUIS is the only oral anticoagulant that has demonstrated superior risk reduction versus warfarin in the…
Surgical Infection: A brief look at Surgical Infection
Surgical Infection is an infection that occurs after surgery in the part of the body where the surgery took place. Surgical Infection is a major surgical problem in surgical practice. Most patients who have surgery do not develop an infection. However, infections develop in about 1 to 3 out of…
Wound Healing: What is Abnormal Wound Healing?
Wound healing process can be differentiated by two types which are Normal Wound Healing and Abnormal Wound Healing, Basically wound is refers to breach in normal tissue continuity resulting in a variety of cellular and molecular sequelae. Abnormal wound healing is divided into three intentions which are Wound healing by…
Wound Healing: What are the phases of wound healing?
Wound healing is a complex series of interactions between various types of cells which is divided into phases of wound healing, these cells includes cytokine mediators and extracellular matrix and the phases of wound healing is very distinct with each other. Success of wound healing is totally dependent on the…
Levemir plus NovoRapid, Best for Infants with Type 1 diabetes
New Clinical trials for diabetes showed that Levemir®, Novo Nordisk basal insulin is an effective treatment for infant babies with type 1 diabetes. Currently no basal insulin is available for infants and it seems that Novo Nordisk is on way to this to update its Levemir® for the children aged…