AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Nintendo Wii may help treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, including depression, a Medical College of Georgia researcher says. Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease that impairs motor skills. Dr. Herz theorized that the popular computer game console, which simulates various sports and activities, could improve coordination,...
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CHAPEL HILL, NC – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists created a new drug delivery system, called the Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP), which can receive commands wirelessly from a smartphone or computer to schedule and trigger the release of drugs from individual microneedles. The patch’s thin, soft platform...
PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Wistar Institute’s David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center (VIC) and W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, and collaborators, have engineered novel monoclonal antibodies that engage Natural Killer cells through a unique surface receptor that activates...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) should be among the top health concerns of diabetes patients. Yet, while around 1 in 3 adults with diabetes has CKD, a Bayer survey of healthcare professionals shows that people are often unprepared for their diagnosis and that communication needs to improve. Bayer, which won approval...
With an infrastructure in place to market its lone commercial product Ruconest, it made sense in 2019 for Pharming Group to scoop up another rare disease candidate in the same arena. Four years later, Pharming’s $20 million purchase of leniolisib from Novartis is set to bear dividends. On Friday, the...
New York, NY. Women with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing a procedure called pulsed field ablation (PFA) have just as good outcomes as men with AF undergoing the same procedure, according to a large-scale international study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This study is the first...
Montpellier, France – KONDREE and its academic partners announce a major, clinically validated therapeutic breakthrough to improve the quality of life for patients with Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and slow the progression of the disease. The French Deep Tech company Kondree, in partnership with the University of Montpellier, Montpellier University Hospital...
Shangai, China and TEL AVIV, Israel and ATHENS, Greece and ZURICH, Switzerland — The World Orphan Drug Alliance (WODA), a global alliance of commercial distributors dedicated to providing access to treatments for rare diseases and specialty medicines in complex markets around the world, has expanded its reach to include the...
The Cayman Islands joins the United Nations in observing the first annual Sickle Cell Disease World Day on Friday, 19 June. The worldwide event will raise awareness of the disease, and follows a United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in December 2008 that recognizes sickle cell disease as a public...
Melbourne, Australia – Researchers at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research (SVI) in Melbourne have shown that a commonly prescribed rheumatoid arthritis drug can suppress the progression of type 1 diabetes. The world-first human trial, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and led by SVI’s Professor Thomas...