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UAB researchers found that Medtronic’s ITB(TM)
Therapy helped to free patients’ locked’ limbs
Results of…
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced that the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) has classified its safety alert about the
proper connection of sutureless catheters used with implantable drug
infusion systems as a Class I recall. The notification relates to the
improper connection of its sutureless connector intrathecal catheters
(referred to as SC catheters). The affected products include th…
XenoPort, Inc. (Nasdaq:XNPT) announced plans to initiate an
exploratory Phase 2 clinical trial of XP19986 in patients with acute
back spasms, which is a debilitating condition affecting approximately
two-thirds of patients experiencing lower back pain. XenoPort intends
to initiate this two-week, multi-center, double-blind, place…
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It’s the bane of doctors’ lives, but is there a legitimate place for red tape?
IT was an anxious wait for Dr Warwick Carter. He received a phone call from the PBS saying his prescribing profile was ‘grossly abnormal’ and he was to receive a visit from a PBS official the following week.
In the ensuing days Dr Carter, a GP in Sumner Park, Queensland, racked his worried mind trying to identify what was abnormal about his prescrib…
Baclofen, a derivative of [gamma]-aminobutyric acid, is used for symptomatic relief of skeletal muscle spasm and spasticity, particularly in patients with multiple sclerosis. (1) Although its exact mechanism is not fully understood, its main effects at the spinal end of upper motor neurons are thought to cause muscle relaxation. Adverse effects of baclofen a…
AGI announces key findings of clinical PK study of arbaclofen (AGI-006)
Dublin, Ireland, 2 April 2008 - AGI Therapeutics plc (”AGI” or the “Company”)
(AIM, IEX: AGI), a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on gastrointestinal
drug products, today announces the key…
Purpose: Multiple deformations of the lower limbs are common orthopaedic complications of central nervous system disease. Assessment is difficult. Intrathecal Lioresal was proposed for the patients to establish the relative effects of spasticity and musculo-tendi…
ABSTRACT
Intrathecal baclofen (ITB) is a relatively new treatment approach that may be useful for treating spasticity in patients with chronic stroke. In this paper, we examine ITB treatment of spastieity caused by stroke and the implications for physical therapy man…
