Would be helpful for Diabetics, Children, those in need of painkillers at home. Next step Clinical Trials
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/health/story/pain-free-injections-could-be-the-way-new-nus-patch-20140905#xtor=CS1-10
Google’s health startup Calico is teaming up with biotechnology drugmaker AbbVie in a $500 million joint venture that will try to develop new ways to treat cancer and other diseases such as Alzheimer’s. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-invests-250-million-in-partnership-working-to-96555623289.html
Clinical depression was much more prevalent among cancer patients than in the general population, where around 2% of people suffer from the mental illness at any point in time. Among cancer patients, clinical depression ranged from 13% in people with lung cancer to 6% in people with genitourinary cancer. The study's lead author Michael Sharpe, from Oxford University, said: "Major depression is really quite common in people with cancer and the perhaps surprising finding is that most of it goes…
Depression is known to be a common symptom of Parkinson's disease, but remains untreated for many patients, according to a new study by Northwestern Medicine investigators in collaboration with the National Parkinson's Foundation (NPF). http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/281162.php
New research suggests that women with high blood pressure are at higher risk than their male counterparts, prompting researchers to recommend different treatments in women. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270747.php
AstraZeneca and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma said on Wednesday they said signed a three-year research collaboration into diabetic nephropathy, or kidney failure due to diabetes. http://news.yahoo.com/astrazeneca-mitsubishi-tanabe-diabetes-research-064428458--finance.html
A great article on why exercising is important to prevent complications from inactivity in Arthritic patients and what exercises are suitable. https://www.rheumatology.org/Practice/Clinical/Patients/Diseases_And_Conditions/Exercise_and_Arthritis/
Excess weight linked to 10 different cancers Cancers have many causes – some of them genetic and some environmental. But the researchers, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Farr Institute of Health Informatics, have taken account of all the other factors involved in order to come up with a good estimate of the actual number of cancers that could be prevented if people kept to a normal weight. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/14/excess-weight…
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