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Nimotuzumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody that works by binding and disabling the epidermal growth factor receptor. It is a protein that is thought to be a pivotal driver in tumour proliferation. It can be used as monotherapy or in combination with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This is a mode of treatment for brain cancer that can be used alongside conventional therapies. It has a very low toxicity for a better quality life.

Nimotuzumab as a form of targeted therapy that binds with high specificity is thought to minimally affect normal tissues and have fewer toxic side effects. It is in fact proven safe cancer drug to be used on children with brain tumors in a clinical trial in Germany.

Have you ever wondered why some older people have small holes in their face? It’s because during puberty they have severe acne that left them with scars. An acne refers to lesions or pimples caused when the hair follicles (or “pores”) on the skin become plugged with oil and dead skin cells. Scars from acne can seem like double punishment, first you had to deal with the pimples, now you have marks as a reminder. Most serious scarring is caused by the more severe forms of acne, with nodules more likely to leave permanent scars than other types of acne. The best way to deal with acne is to get treatment soon after the acne appears to prevent further damage. If you have nodules, see your doctor or dermatologist for treatment.
One of the medical breakthroughs for acne scarring is the treatment to diminish or remove the marks.There are various treatments for acne scarring. If you have serious bout of scarring from previous breakout one form of treatment is laser resurfacing. The laser removes the damaged top layer of skin and tightens the middle layer, leaving skin smoother. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. The doctor will try to lessen any pain by first numbing the skin with local anesthesia. It usually takes between 3 and 10 days for the skin to heal completely. Another method for treating acne scarring is dermabrasion, which uses a rotating wire brush or spinning diamond instrument to wear down the surface of the skin. As the skin heals, a new, smoother layer replaces the abraded skin. It may take a bit longer for skin to heal using dermabrasion it usually last between 10 days and 3 weeks. The newest form of treatment for acne scarring is called fractional laser therapy. This type of treatment works at a deeper level than laser resurfacing or dermabrasion, because fractional laser therapy doesn’t wound the top layer of tissue, healing time is shorter. Fractional laser therapy is quite costly, and it’s not usually covered by insurance.
A person’s acne will need to be under control before having any of these treatments. After the treatment, we don’t’ have to be reminded of how bad are face was when we look in the mirror.

In medicine, surgery (from the Greek χειρουργική, or chirurgical, and latin chirurgiae meaning “hand work”) is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason. An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply surgery. In this context, the verb operating means performing surgery. The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical nurse. The patient or subject that the surgery is being performed on can be a person or an animal. A surgeon is a person who performs operations on patients. Persons described as surgeons are commonly medical practitioners, but the term is also applied to podiatrists, dentists and veterinarians. Surgery can last from minutes to hours, but is typically not an ongoing or periodic type of treatment. -Source

However, scientists from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University give new hope to amputees as a new study could one day enable them to feel with an artificial limb as though it were their own. In an experiment done with the help of two patients who lost their arms, scientists rerouted key nerves to their chests. According to the patients, they could feel their missing arms and hands when pressure, heat and cold, and electrical stimulus were applied in the nerve areas.

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Heart transplant is a long process because you have to wait for a potential heart that is suitable for you and your condition. But there is a new device now that will no longer make a heart patient wait – the Berlin heart. One of its great advantages is it comes with different sizes, from the smallest fitted for babies and large sizes for adults. The Berlin heart takes over the patient’s heart for a while that allows it to rest and this will let the patient’s body to gain strength thus, making them a better candidate for heart transplantation. And 77 percent of patients who uses Berlin heart survive to their transplant surgery.

Out of 1,000 children, there are three to five who are diagnosed with scoliosis and it is more prominent in girls. Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine that can have severe consequences if the curvature gets worse like effects in heart and lung function. Surgery is the process to mend scoliosis which in the operation cuts a large piece of bone from the iliac crest in the pelvis that will be used to create a spinal fusion so the curve would not get worse. But the problem with taking a bone from the iliac crest is it can cause pain and sometimes even permanent pain. But today, there is a brand new therapy that will require using stem cells harvested from your own bone marrow. This stem cells will act as a sort of catalyst to support the growth of new bone along the spine and moreover, it is less painful and more effective.

For those of you who spend almost 12 hours in front of your computer, there is a specialized specs to prevent eye irritation. Some of the people who spend lots of time in front of a computer screen can suffer from eye problems that may feel like sands in the eyes and makes your vision blurry and teary. It is called a computer vision syndrome. So an ophthalmologist, Richard Yee, saw how people suffer from dry eyes, light sensitivity and difficulty to focus at the computer that made him create special specs. It’s like having your eyes in the sauna making it comfortable for the eyes and screens out wind, drafts, dusts and anything in the environment that can irritate your eyes.

There are at least three million Americans that have epilepsy and 30 percent of this has seizures that cannot be controlled by medicine. But as of now, new imaging techniques have stridently increased the number of people who are possible candidate for epilepsy surgery. And the children have more benefits on this since their brain is still flexible. Surgery is the only way to completely cure epilepsy but this is crucial because many things can happen inside your brain during surgery that can cause further damages. And to accurately map the brain during surgeries, surgeons place dozens of tiny electrodes directly on the surface of the brain and these sensors allow a digital brain wave machine to generate a high-tech image of what is happening inside the brain.

It is a disheartening fact that stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the US. But there is a new tool called Penumbra which is a device suction for blood clots from the brains of stroke patients. It gives possibility of life and cuts the risk of death and disability. A catheter is used as it goes from a small incision in the groin through blood vessels up to the brain where this is a blockage and Penumbra suctions out the clot thus, saving a stroke victim’s life. There is a new study in fact that shows it restored blood flow in 82 percent out of 125 patients.