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.
As a result of the fast past of our modern lifestyles, fast food has become the quickest and easiest option to avail. Junk food is harmful to our health and could lead to various issues like cardiac problems. There are several foods that strengthen our hearts which should be consumed regularly.
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.
The AD-36 virus improves blood-sugar and cholesterol levels. Dhurandhar explained, “We think the virus infects fat cells, causing them to divide and grow faster than normal; your body may produce more fat cells, but that means there’s less fat left to travel to your liver and blood.”
Japanese Scientists unravel a molecular apparatus via which antibodies control gut bacteria to conserve health. They observed that immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies released by the intestines can influence how bacteria express their genes.
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.
Novartis has renewed its memorandum of understanding with the World Health Organization (WHO) to lengthen its drug donation for Egaten® (triclabendazole) to 2022 and continues its war against liver fluke. WHO lists Egaten as the only medicine for fascioliasis and also includes it in the Model List of Essential Medicines.
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.
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