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Amyloidosis Treatment

The treatment approach to amyloidosis depends on the type of amyloidosis a patient has as well as their current state of health.

26 Feb 2014

Amyloidosis Symptoms

The symptoms of amyloidosis vary widely due to the many different parts of the body that can be affected by the disease.

26 Feb 2014

Amyloidosis is a challenging condition to diagnose due to the varying and generalized symptoms it presents with. In addition, amyloid proteins can take years to build up in an organ or tissue before they actually cause symptoms, which may only start to appear when organs are severely damaged.

26 Feb 2014

Cardiovascular Drugs

A wide range of medications are used to treat various heart conditions.

17 Feb 2014

What are Stem Cell Transplants?

Stem cells are very early, undifferentiated forms of cells that can develop into specialized blood cells. Stem cells can also quickly multiply to produce more stem cells.

14 Feb 2014

How Are Stem Cells Matched?

A stem cell transplant may involve using tissue from the patient’s own body or tissue from a donor. When the transplant involves stem cells taken from the patient’s own body, the transplant is termed autologous.

14 Feb 2014

How Are Stem Cells Collected?

The stem cells used in a transplant are collected from the blood or sometimes the bone marrow. The first step in preparation for collection is to move the stem cells into the blood from the bone marrow using a process called mobilization.

14 Feb 2014

Multiple Sclerosis Management

Multiple sclerosis is a lifelong, incurable illness that is rapidly progressing and severely debilitating.

14 Feb 2014

Multiple Sclerosis Epidemiology

Multiple sclerosis is a progressive disease that worsens over time and eventually leads to death.

14 Feb 2014

What Causes Multiple Sclerosis?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease caused by damage to the myelin sheaths of the nerve fibers in the central nervous system.

14 Feb 2014

The Quest for an Acute Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, contributing to as many as a third of injury-related deaths. When a patient presents to the emergency department with a TBI in isolation or as part of multi-system injury, he or she is stabilized, evaluated and a treatment plan is determined.

27 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 4 Clinical Trial?

phase 4 clinical trial begins after a drug has been approved for use in the general population following phase 1, 2 and 3 trials to rigorously test its efficacy and safety.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 3 Clinical Trial?

Phase 3 clinical trials follow phase 1 and 2 clinical trials. In a phase 1 clinical trial, the tolerability and safety of the new drug is studied, usually in a small number of healthy volunteers. Phase 2 is aimed at determining the drug's efficacy and optimal dosing regimen. After phase 2, the drug is entered into the next phase of testing in a phase 3 trial.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 2 Clinical Trial?

A phase 2 clinical trial is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a new drug or drug combination for a particular indication.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 1 Clinical Trial?

A clinical trial of a drug is conducted in order to test whether it is viable for use in humans, based mainly on its effectiveness and safety profile.

24 Jan 2014

What is a Phase 0 Clinical Trial?

When a drug is developed for use in a particular disease condition, it undergoes several stages of testing in animal models before being tested on select human volunteers. A phase 0 trial is the first trial where a proposed drug is used on a very small number of human volunteers.

24 Jan 2014

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Anxiety is a feeling of worry, fear or uneasiness that can range in severity from mildly disconcerting to having a severe impact on daily living.

24 Jan 2014

Multiple sclerosis and beta interferon

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a long-term neurodegenerative disorder that affects the central nervous system, causing disturbances in movement, balance and vision. MS is an autoimmune condition and is caused by the body’s immune system mistaking the protective covering of nerve fibres for a foreign body and mounting an attack against it. This protective covering is called myelin and diseases that cause damage to the myelin are referred to as demyelinating diseases.

22 Jan 2014

Diagnosis of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the most common conditions affecting older men. Diagnosis is usually made based on symptoms, a physical examination and some imaging studies.

22 Jan 2014

Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BHP)

Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) depends on how enlarged the prostate gland has become and the extent of any symptoms the enlarged prostate may be causing.

22 Jan 2014