Extended-release amantadine may improve levodopa dyskinesia control
VANCOUVER – An extended-release amantadine formulation reduced levodopa-induced dyskinesia in a phase III Parkinson’s disease trial from the drug’s developer, Adamas Pharmaceuticals.
Amantadine... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 21, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Endovascular thrombectomy procedure volume for stroke may not affect outcomes
VANCOUVER – The relationship between hospitals’ procedural volume and patient outcomes that has been observed for many cardiovascular interventions and other surgeries does not hold for endovascular... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 21, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Small study: OTC antihistamine shows potential as a remyelinating agent in MS
VANCOUVER – Clemastine fumarate (Tavist) reduced delay in visual evoked potentials by 1.9 ms per eye, with a trend toward improved low contrast visual acuity, in a small randomized,... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 20, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
UnitedHealth Group leaving most ACA marketplaces
UnitedHealth Group will not sell policies next year in most of the health insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act, CEO Stephen Helmsley announced during an April 19 <a... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
New data help guide the stopping of disease-modifying drugs in MS
VANCOUVER – Certain patient and disease characteristics may help guide decisions about starting and stopping therapy in progressive multiple sclerosis, according to a pair of longitudinal cohort... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Women with epilepsy conceive at normal rate
VANCOUVER – Women with epilepsy have fertility rates comparable with healthy women in the general population, according to results from the first prospective observational cohort study to make the... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Your online reputation
Have you ever run across a negative or even malicious comment about you or your practice on the web, in full view of the world? You’re certainly not alone.
Chances are it was on one of those... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
AAN updates botulinum toxin guidelines for most established uses
VANCOUVER – A new American Academy of Neurology practice guideline on the efficacy and safety evidence for botulinum toxin treatment of blepharospasm, cervical dystonia, spasticity, and headache has... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Dispensing with expert testimony
Question: When a doctor could not find a dislodged biopsy guide wire, he abandoned his search after informing the patient of his intention to retrieve it at a later date. Two months later, he... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Anti-CGRP agent delivered durable episodic migraine prevention
VANCOUVER – An investigational antibody that targets the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor may be efficacious and safe in the longer term for preventing episodic migraine, data from an... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 18, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Patients suffer morbidity due to MS misdiagnosis
VANCOUVER – More than two-thirds of patients with definite or probable misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis took unnecessary disease-modifying therapy and nearly one-third experienced unnecessary... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 17, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Young women’s weight gain predicts later low back pain
AMSTERDAM – Data from a longitudinal study reported at the World Congress on Osteoarthritis show that weight gain in young women is an independent predictor of future low back pain.
Indeed, for... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 14, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
CDC confirms Zika virus as a cause of microcephaly
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have determined that Zika virus infection is a cause of microcephaly in babies born to infected mothers, following a systematic review of... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 13, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Benefit of lumbar fusion for spinal stenosis found to be small to nonexistent
The benefit of adding lumbar fusion surgery to decompression surgery for spinal stenosis was nonexistent in one large clinical trial and very modest in another, according to separate reports... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 13, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Number of malpractice payments down 28% since 2004
The annual number of medical malpractice payment reports fell 28% from 2004 to 2014, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The total number of medical malpractice payment... (Source: Clinical Neurology News)
Source: Clinical Neurology News - April 13, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
