Stroke, Menstruation and Anti-Covid Vaccine, Gene Therapy for Deafness… Some Good News for Change – Liberation

Certainly, our health system is tired, in bad shape, on edge, embolized, in short in crisis. But still, in medicine as in research, initiatives are flourishing all over the world. Here are some items of success.

While the corridors of the Avenue de Segur remain deserted awaiting the next tenant, while drug shortages persist, or even increase – the National Medicines Safety Agency recorded 4,925 reports last year, up from 3,761 in 2022 – while the emergency remains fragile, the elderly Patients die on stretchers, the newspaper reported this week Parisian, While, on the contrary, medical franchises have never been in such good health, even doubling their prices, when finally everything looks gray, here are some reasons for hope in the world of health.

Glenzosimab, full of promise

Therefore, this adjuvant treatment on stroke. Strokes are scary. And for good reason… the French fall victim to it every year. The most common form, ischemic (80% of cases) and non-hemorrhagic stroke, occurs as a result of clots in the arteries of the brain. The use of a new antiplatelet agent, glanzomab, appears promising. Because today, when a patient arrives in a neurosurgical intensive care unit not too late, treatment involves dissolving the clot by injecting a blood-thinning drug. A complementary intervention, Thromback