This guide will help you look for a cancer treatment clinical trial. It does not provide medical advice and should not be used in place of advice from your doctor or other members of your health care team. Your health care team and your loved ones, if you wish, can assist you in deciding whether or not a clinical trial is right for you. The decision to take part in a clinical trial is yours alone to make.
This guide takes you through the following steps:
Step 1: Understand Clinical … Read more
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Since approximately 100 million in the US suffer from chronic pain, NeuroMetrix has come out with Quell, a wearable device that can be worn 24 hours a day to help better manage chronic pain, neurological diseases and sleep disorders. It uses non-invasive neurostimulation technology to provide relief from pain, particularly neuropathic pain due to diabetes, fibromyalgia and sciatica.
NeuroMetrix of Waltham will be jumping into the market for wearable electronic devices, which is projected to hit nearly $13 billion in worldwide sales in 2018.
But the company’s new Quell device … Read more
CCMB scientists reveal deactivation of gene WDR13 controls type-2 diabetes & improves immune system in rats.
Research by scientists at Center for Scientific and Industrial Research-Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) Hyderabad has revealed that gene WDR13 is the major cause of type-2 diabetes and it can be effectively controlled and cured by de-activating the gene.
A team of scientists working under the leadership of Dr Satish Kumar, Head Department of Animal Genetics Research Centre have found that a gene called WDR13 is responsible for causing type-2 diabetes and … Read more
Note – I am thankful to eyedoc for his key opinion and note .
AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the United States, affecting 10 million Americans over age 60. It’s a condition where the central part of the retina wears out, causing vision loss. Everyone is at risk for macular degeneration as they age, but people who have a family history or who smoke are more likely to develop it.
Although there is no cure for AMD, there is a procedure which helps end-stage disease sufferers by … Read more
What is Machado-Joseph Disease?
Machado-Joseph disease (MJD)—also called spinocerebellar ataxia Type 3 (SCA3)—is one of approximately 30 recognized, dominantly inherited forms of ataxia. Ataxia is a general term meaning lack of muscle control or coordination. MJD is characterized by slowly progressive clumsiness in the arms and legs, a staggering lurching gait that can be mistaken for drunkenness, difficulty with speech and swallowing, impaired eye movements sometimes accompanied by double vision or bulging eyes, and lower limb spasticity. Some individuals develop dystonia (sustained muscle contractions that cause twisting of the body … Read more
A disease or disorder is defined as rare in Europe when it affects fewer than 1 in 2000.
A disease or disorder is defined as rare in the USA when it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans at any given time.
One rare disease may affect only a handful of patients in the EU (European Union), and another touch as many as 245,000. In the EU, as many as 30 million people alone may be affected by one of over 6000 rare diseases existing.
80% of rare diseases have identified genetic … Read more
Carl Stubbings Interview on Sky Business News
