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Slowdown in Huntington’s Disease
Huntington’s Disease Has Been Successful Treated With Gene Therapy for the First Time in the United Kingdom. The Decline in Patients is Much Slower with the Treatment than in Someone Without The Therapy. Doctors are praising the results and speaking of a breakthrough.
The New Treatment is a Form of Gene Therapy That Is Administered Duration A Long-Term Brain Surgery. Results show that the disease process is great slowed down. This means that the decline you would normally expect in one year now take four years.
Doctors Speak of A 75 percent slowdown and are Enthusiastic about the result. Patients who have undergone the treatment have returned to work and can still walk three years after the surgery. Fewer Brain Cells Have also died.
HIV Medicine from 24,000 euros to 34 euros per year
A New Medicine Against HIV Should Be Avlessable at A Low Price in More than One Hundred Low and Middle-Income Countries Within Two Years. It Concerns The Drug Lenacapavir, which must be administered twice a year via an injection.
IT Offers Six Months of Protection Against HIV Infection Each Time. Large-Scale Studies Showed That It is Almost 100 percent effective in Preventing HIV. The Medicine is expected to be on the market by the end of this year. It will then cost about 24,000 euros per person per year.
But on Wednesday, Organizations Reached an Agreement That Can Make It Cheaper. The Agreement Should Ensure That the Medicine is available for about 34 euros per year by 2027.
Drones to transport medicines and samples
A trial with medical drones started in Overijssel and Drenthe on Monday. About the coming year, the drones will transport medical samples, medicines and blood products between the Isala Hospitals in Zwolle and Meppel, Among Other Things.
The drones fly at a height or 100 meters with a speed or 100 kilometers per hour. Space Has Been created in the air for the trial. The Flight Between the Two Hospitals Takes a maximum of 20 minutes. By car, you will be on the road longer due to traffic and traffic lights. It is expected that patients can Therefore be helped faster thanks to the drones.
The Intention is that all small medical transport in the Netherlands will be carried out by drones in a few years.