JERUSALEM, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Israeli bio-pharmaceutical company Kadimastem announced on Wednesday a success in trials of a treatment for ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), based on healthy cells transplant. ALS is a rare and incurable muscular dystrophy that affects the motor nerve cells and ...
Evidence for mast cells contributing to neuromuscular pathology in an inherited model of ALS. JCI Insight. 2017;2:e95934. Article PubMed Central Google Scholar Li T, Martin E, Abada Y-S, Boucher C, Cès A, Youssef I, et al. Effects of chronic masitinib treatment in APPPS1dE9 ...
[Prevention and interventions for suicidal youth considerations for health professionionals in Switzerland]. In acute suicidality, the admission to a psychiatric hospital must be considered, if necessary against the will of affected adolescent and their relatives. Personality-related recurrent suicidal behav...
Riluzole was the first treatment to be approved for ALS by the FDA in 1995. The therapy is thought to work by reducing molecular signaling, which can overstimulate and damage nerve cells.The original formulation of riluzole is an oral tablet marketed under the brand name Rilutek by Covis ...
On June 2, 1941, at the age of 37, baseball player Lou Gehrig succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive muscle degeneration disease. Today, nearly 80 years following his death, scientists are still searching for the root cause—and an effective treatment—for the condition...
Entering the domain of advanced therapies, their initiation should be a shared decision, ideally made by a team of healthcare profes- sionals, experienced in all the available thera- pies, along with patients and caregivers. Looking at the three ''classical'' advanced therapies, i.e. CSAI,...
review was to determine the level of evidence for the treatment of nausea and vomiting with prokinetics and neuroleptics in palliative care patients suffering from far advanced cancer and no longer being treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy, AIDS, COPD, progressive heart failure, ALS or ...
For people who have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — a neurodegenerative disease that damages neurons in the brain and spinal cord — cannabis can help ease certain symptoms, including pain, depression, loss of appetite, and muscle spasms....
Riluzole for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/motor neuron disease (MND). Coch-rane Database Syst Rev 2007; (1): CD001447 Zarate Jr CA, Payne JL, Quiroz J, et al. An open-label trial of riluzole in patients with treatment-resistant major depression. Am J Psychiatry 2004; 161: 171...
It is reassuring to note that several meta-analyses have provided reliable evidence for the beneficial effects of vitamin C in improving organ dysfunction. In a system- atic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical tri- als conducted by Martimbianco et al. [42] and published W ang...