And it works relatively fast - women who were given the drug in clinical trials started to feel better as early as 48 hours after starting treatment, and the effects lasted for a month. The $34,000 per-patient cost for a one-time treatment is not yet covered by insurance, though the manufacturer Sage Therapeutics says it's working on that. [Full Article...]
Mumps is a viral infection that involves swollen glands. Dissatisfied with the response by the university, a group of students filed a petition on change.org to temporarily close the university to stop the outbreak, saying, "It is time that Temple takes the necessary action to halt the outbreak before this epidemic becomes unmanageable". [Full Article...]
The wireless telemetry protocol, which is used to transmit patient data from the implanted cardiac device to Medtronic clinic programmers and home monitors, is vulnerable because it does not use " encryption , authentication , or authorization", according to the agency. [Full Article...]
Cancer treatment can damage a boy's undeveloped testes and leaves a third of survivors infertile in adulthood. "Since germ cells (sperm cells in the testes and oocytes in the ovaries) divide quickly, they are vulnerable to toxicity, especially from chemotherapy", Lynne Elmore, scientific director at Translational Cancer Research at the American Cancer Society , told Newsweek . [Full Article...]
The Health Division will host a special measles vaccination clinic open to the public - Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m.to 2 p.m.at the South Oakland Health Center, 27725 Greenfield Rd., Southfield. Officials say these cases follow a confirmed travel-related measles case announced earlier this month. A person prepares a measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, which protects against 93-97 percent of measles ca... [Full Article...]
By offering it in schools, public-health units and community health centres, the catch-up program is created to make it simpler and stress-free for parents to ensure their children are adequately protected from measles. It can lead to serious health complications like deafness, seizures, brain damage or, in rare cases, death. "Very few people in B.C. are against all vaccinations", Dr. [Full Article...]
Her mum, Monica Vega, told local media that doctors in La Merced in the city of Barranquilla in the northern Colombian department of Atlantico detected something inside her baby's abdomen seven months into her pregnancy . A month on from her traumatic birth, Itzamara is now ideal in health, with barely any signs of damage or impact to her abdomen. As you may have guessed, he quickly saw it wasn't... [Full Article...]
Published in BMJ today, the research team - from the University of Sydney, the University of Toronto and University of California - set out to investigate if and how user data is shared by top rated medicines-related mobile apps. "Fourth parties" - which included multinational technology companies, digital advertising companies, telecommunications corporations, and a consumer credit reporting... [Full Article...]