Thailand Medical News

Chronic Diseases That Long-Term HIV Patients Will Face

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 23, 2019 5 years ago

Longterm patients will ultimately face increased incidence of heart disease, COPD, Tuberculosis and bone fractures according to a new study. These are the areas that HIV patients need to take extra care off besides their antiretroviral regimens. Academics from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge and the Medical University of Vienna conducted the first ever large-scale review into th...

Abbott’s Tendyne Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) System Shows early Promise In Early Clinical Studies

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 23, 2019 5 years ago

Summit, the pivotal trial of Abbott Laboratories’ Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve, will not read out until 2021, but early data from a small feasibility trial of the device give a hint of how it might perform in one of Summit’s patient cohorts: those with mitral annular calcification (MAC). One-year data on the first nine patients in Abbott’s 30-patient feasibility study,...

Tueo, A Medical Startup For Monitoring Asthma In Children Gets Bought Up By Apple

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 22, 2019 5 years ago

Apple has acquired Tueo Health, a start-up, which secured US$ 1.1 million seed funding in 2017 and was focused in developing a system to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in sleeping children. How much Apple paid for Tueo Health was not disclosed. Tueo Health was founded by Brownyn Harris who is also the CEO. While its COO is Anura Patil. The World Health Organization (...

Samitivej Hospital Unveils New Pediatric Emergency Services

Sourec: Thailand Medical News Sep 22, 2019 5 years ago

Samitivej Group and Samitivej Children’s Hospital recently invested in getting all its pediatric staff further trained in Pediatric Emergency Services through a collaboration with with Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon Health and Science University, one of the leading pediatric hospitals in USA. Samitivej is already a leading Hospital In Thailand for Pediatric services but this i...

Abbott Introduce Freestyle Libre 14 day Glucose Monitoring And Aims To Be Global Leader In Diabetes Management

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 22, 2019 5 years ago

Abbott Laboratories has always aimed to help people with diabetes move away from traditional fingerstick testing towards continuous and minimally invasive glucose monitoring, which results in better health outcomes and overall diabetes management. As such Abbott is proud to unveil its new upgraded FreeStyle Libre 14 day Glucose Monitoring device. The FreeStyle Libre 14 day system incorporates a w...

Mothers Warned About Eye Medications That Can Find Its Way Into Breast Milk

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 22, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto have discovered that certain drugs used to treat retinal eye diseases are excreted into breast milk, raising possible safety concerns for developing infants. The medications in the spotlight was ranibizumab (trade name Lucentis) and aflibercept (trade name Eylea.) Medications Containing Anti-VEGFs Can Affect An Infant’s Devel...

China Pioneering CRISPR Gene-Editing Technology To Treat HIV And Other Diseases

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 22, 2019 5 years ago

With lesser regulatory controls and a more conducive environment for research, China is stepping ahead of the gene-editing game and is now doing extensive research and trials in using the CRISPR Gene-editing platform to find possible cures for a variety of diseases and ailments including a recent trial in which gene-editing was applied to try to cure a patient who had HIV and also leukemia. Though...

Most People Not Aware About HPV Or Its Cancer Causing Effects Despite HPV Related Cancers Increasing Worldwide.

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 21, 2019 5 years ago

-Sexually Transmitted HPV On A Tenfold Increase Worldwide -80% percent of Males And 60% Of Females Have No Knowledge About What Is HPV -940 Million People Worldwide Carrying HPV (Figures Collated From CDC, WHO, NHS etc) -More Than 4.1 Million People Developed HPV Related Cancers In 2018. -More Younger Adults Are Dying From HPV Cancers Such As Cervix Cancer, Oral Cancer, Penile Cancer and Anal Canc...

US FDA Approves Supplemental NDAs For Delstrigo And Pifeltro For HIV Treatment

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 21, 2019 5 years ago

The US FDA has approved supplemental new drug applications (NDAs) to expand the use of the drugs Pifeltro and Delstrigo as inclusions in the treatment of patients who are virologically suppressed on a stable ART regimen with no previous history of treatment failure. The approvals provide HIV patients with a wider option of drugs for their ART regiments. The new approval is for adults curr...

New Long-Acting Injectable Multi-Drug Implant HIV Treatment

Source: Thailand Medical News Sep 21, 2019 5 years ago

For those on Antiretroviral therapy for prevention or treatment of HIV, whether on a single pill or combo regimen, it can be burdensome making sure the drugs are consumed without fail at the right times despite having a busy daily schedule. Those days might soon be over thanks to medical researchers across multiple departments at the University of North Carolina who collaborated on a seven-y...