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UAMS First To Use Device To Unclog Patient's Veins In Brain
In the days leading up to Glen Deaton"s emergency trip from Trumann to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), large veins that drain blood from his brain were clotting.
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Biolex Therapeutics Announces Completion Of Enrollment In SELECT-2 Phase 2b Trial Of Locteron(R) In Chronic Hepatitis C
Biolex Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has completed patient enrollment in the SELECT-2 Phase 2b trial of its lead product candidate Locteron® for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C. Locteron, controlled-release interferon alpha 2b, is designed to improve patient care by providing a more convenient once-every-two week dosing schedule and by reducing the side effects, including flu-like symptoms, associated with pegylated interferons, the current standard of care.
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Long-Suffering Rohingya In Bangladesh Face Unacceptable Abuse
Thousands of unregistered Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong makeshift camp, Bangladesh, are being forcibly displaced from their homes, in an act of intimidation and abuse by the local authorities. The international medical organization Doctors Without Border/Mç©decins Sans Frontiç¨res (MSF) has treated numerous people for injuries, of which the majority were women and children. Furthermore, MSF has witnessed countless destroyed homes and heard many reports of people being warned to remove their own shelters or face the consequences.
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Comparative Effectiveness Tested In Diabetes Study, VA Records Release

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found common surgical interventions and stents, the expensive medical devices used in bypass surgeries, are no more effective at preventing death, heart attacks and strokes in diabetic patients than less expensive drugs, the Wall Street Journal reports. The study, which included 2,368 patients, is representative of new interest in head-to-head comparisons of treatments. "Funding for similar "comparative effective" studies have just been given a big boost. These bake-offs between competing therapies for the same condition have been hailed as a possible answer to wasteful health-care spending in the U.S. Washington allocated $1.1 billion for such research in the economic-stimulus bill passed in February," the Journal reports (Winstein, 6/8). Comparative effectiveness research requires scientists to tap health provider"s patient-care data. To that end, the Department of Veterans Affairs is opening their electronic medical records to researchers across the system, American Medical News reports. "The de-identified, aggregated data of veterans will allow researchers to pinpoint the most effective treatments for specific conditions, including posttraumatic stress disorder and antibiotic-resistant staph infection ... The VA says the result will be broader clinical studies that will provide physicians, both inside and out of the system, with better data on the best treatment methods for various conditions" (Dolan, 6/8). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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