A week post Bayer’s announcement on the withdrawal of Essure, its contraceptive implant from the market by this year-end due to inadequate sales, its clinical safety is questioned as consumer and legal stress builds up concerning complaints of extreme fatigue, pain and bleeding.
The forthcoming HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston: "Balancing Technology and the Human Element" is themed to showcase the importance of human touch in healthcare amidst the rising technology driven hospitals and medical facilities.
According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Salmonella causes about 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths in the United States alone every year. Salmonella infections are caused via contaminated foods, which leads to fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps.
Various synthetic cannabis products such as “spice” and K2 have been contaminated with a rat poison ingredient that affects the blood supply. Hundreds of people in 10 states in the USA have been diagnosed with symptoms like seizures and severe bleeding after using these products, as declared by US-FDA.
A phase 2 study on BAN2401, a monoclonal antibody that hits soluble amyloid beta oligomers, showed that it limits cognitive decline in patients with slight cognitive injury or premature Alzheimer’s dementia on two scales and removed brain amyloid in 81% of patients in the trial.
System C has signed a contract to develop a collective child health information system in the South West of England. 708,000 child health records from South Gloucester, Bristol, Somerset and North Somerset, Devon, Torbay, Plymouth and Cornwall will be put to use by its CarePlus software.
Cone beam imaging, a new stroke imaging technology was showcased at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 15th Annual Meeting in a presented study which aims at preventing nearly an hour of delay in patient care, providing them with the prospect of complete recovery.
Around 54 million to 60 million people throughout the world are annually surviving with Traumatic Brain Injury annually. CT scan tests of the head are the common diagnostic choices in such cases. This extensive use of CT scans leads to unnecessary radiation exposure with high costs.
Stiff skin syndrome causes a person's skin to harden and thicken across the entire body. This thickening results in a person being unable to move his or her joints, leaving the joints stuck in a bent position. The genetic disorder affects the protein named fibrillin-1, which allows the elastic fibers in the skin to stretch.
The 2018 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) suggests that early treatment in adult HIV patients brings about rapid and more definite decrease in viral load and better care of the patient.
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