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Amazing footage shows the transformation of a Parkinson’s patient’s life with new treatment to help deal with the debilitating condition’s tremors.
The breakthrough drug is called Produo-dopa and has been approved by the NHS for treatment of Parkinson’s disease, at £31,000 per patient.
Medication is administered via an under-skin cannula and portable automatic pump worn on the person’s back.
In the first of two clips posted on Instagram by NHS Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust in Nottinghamshire, 52-year-old Damien Gath is seen suffering shakes and spasms while walking and making a cup of tea.
But after using the treatment system, Gath’s movements are smoother, he’s walking and making tea apparently quite comfortably with a smooth stirring motion.
Research by an Imperial College London and Royal College of Art innovation design engineering masters graduate hopes to solve needle-phobia with a medical inhaler device using a mechanism partly inspired by e-cigarettes.
Tech & Science Daily hears how Zhejun ‘Ezreal’ Zhang developed the Inhalo aerosol system for administering Covid vaccine - and he hopes it could have wider applications to improve patient uptake of other medication.
Another infant has died in England after contracting whooping cough, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in the current outbreak to 10.
UK Health Security Agency officials have urged pregnant women to get vaccinated after data showed the number of confirmed cases of whooping cough passed 10,000 in the year to June.
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