Tourette's tics reduced using electrical wrist device
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tourette's device tested by Lewis Capaldi reduces tics in trial
A trial of 121 people finds they experienced, on average, a reduction in tic frequency of 25%. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tangled in bankruptcy proceedings and legal tussle, Sorrento secures $75M to stay afloat
Sorrento Therapeutics can keep the lights on for now. Days after filing its Chapter 11 paperwork, the San Diego-based biotech said a bankruptcy court in Texas has granted interim approval for a $75 million financing that will fund its operations while it sorts out its…#sandiego #patricksoonshiong #venture #parentcompany #develop #chapter11filing #jmbcapitalpartners (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Teens Recovered From the ‘TikTok Tics’
A wave of teenagers who developed tics during the pandemic has receded, illustrating the powerful influence of stress on the body and the resilience of adolescents. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Azeen Ghorayshi and Amber Bracken Tags: Social Media Teenagers and Adolescence Transgender and Transsexuals Computers and the Internet Anxiety and Stress Mental Health and Disorders Women and Girls Psychology and Psychologists Research Source Type: news
Patient death spurs trial halt for Magenta Therapeutics
Magenta Therapeutics is pausing an early-stage clinical trial after a patient died. The death was deemed to be possibly related to its drug, MGTA-117. The biotech said the pause of the Phase I/II trial is voluntary and gives it time to review all available data before…#fda #conjugate #cancerpatients #myeloid #grade4respiratory #classify #grade5 (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tourette's teen has experimental chip implanted under his skin which zaps away tics
Seventeen-year-old Callum deQuevedo, from Pennsylvania, was plagued by severe tics for three years, which included screaming, cursing and hitting himself in the head. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ecopipam Reduces Tourette s Tics Without Common Side Effects Ecopipam Reduces Tourette s Tics Without Common Side Effects
It"may be a safe and effective treatment of Tourette syndrome with advantages over other currently approved therapeutic agents."Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Ecopipam Reduces Tourette's Tics Without Common Side Effects Ecopipam Reduces Tourette's Tics Without Common Side Effects
It"may be a safe and effective treatment of Tourette syndrome with advantages over other currently approved therapeutic agents."Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Ghana: 'Focus On Holistic Development of Children'
[Ghanaian Times] The Unit Head, Planning and Statis-tics at the Ghana Education Service (GES) of the La Madina Nkwan-tanang District, Mr Kingsley Adzraku, has called on heads of schools not to only fo-cus on academic achievements of students, but on the total development of the child. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 16, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Detection of chemical warfare agents with a miniaturized high-performance drift tube ion mobility spectrometer using high-energetic photons for ionization - Ahrens A, Allers M, Bock H, Hitzemann M, Ficks A, Zimmermann S.
A growing demand for low-cost gas sensors capable of detecting the smallest amounts of highly toxic substances in air, including chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs), has emerged in recent years. Ion mobility spectrometers (... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Merck locates frozen batch of undisclosed Ebola vaccine, will donate for testing in Uganda ’s outbreak
In a revelation that may help Uganda combat its outbreak of Ebola, the pharmaceutical giant Merck has acknowledged to
Science—
after repeated inquiries
—
that it has up to 100,000 doses of an experimental vaccine for the deadly viral disease in its freezers in Pennsylvania and will donate them. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ugandan government are discussing if and how these doses can be incorporated into one or more clinical trials of
other
candidate Ebola vaccines that could launch as soon as next month.
The Merck vaccine targets Sudan ebolavirus, the pathogen currentl...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 23, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Short-Term Study of Ecopipam Shows Reduction of Tics in Children with...
A recent study evaluating the efficacy and safety of a pharmaceutical treatment, ecopipam, for children with Tourette syndrome (TS), showed promising initial results, according to a study released...(PRWeb September 14, 2022)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/short_term_study_of_ecopipam_shows_reduction_of_tics_in_children_with_tourette_syndrome/prweb18890702.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - September 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Tourette syndrome: Tics may be linked to Covid stress - new scan to reveal ‘root causes'
THE COVID-19 pandemic completely altered the lives of so many, while changing the landscape of medicine and healthcare. While the virus is more widely understood than it was two and a half years ago, there is still more to learn. And similarly we still do not fully comprehend the lasting impact of the stress and suffering on populations. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Assessing and Managing Functional Neurologic Disorders Assessing and Managing Functional Neurologic Disorders
Drs Subramanian, LaFaver, and Perez discuss the need for more education on functional movement disorders, a new society devoted to these conditions, and the rise of"TikTok tics" during COVID.Medscape Neurology (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - June 16, 2022 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Commentary Source Type: news
Novel Drug Reduces Tics in Kids With Tourette Syndrome
(MedPage Today) -- Children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome had less tic severity when treated with the investigational drug ecopipam, results from the phase IIb D1AMOND study showed.
Treatment with the selective dopamine-1 (D1) receptor... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - April 7, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
