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New cure for migraine: First drug to prevent severe headaches approved by EU

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: 13 August 2018

^{The first drug to prevent migraine has been approved by European health officials. According to a report in The Guardian, the drug Erenumab will now be examined by English and Scottish health agencies to determine if it is viable to be used by officials of National Health Service.}

^{Manufacturers of Erenumab, Novartis, however, have said that the drug can be privately bought by patients — who suffer from four migraines in a month — after its license is approved by European Medicines Agency. Also known as Aimovig, the drug was intended to block the calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor that is thought to be instrumental in migraine activation.}

^{In UK alone, chronic migraine affects more than six lakh people. And even though a number of treatment options exist to reduce the intensity of the symptoms, there – at present – is no definitive solution for it.}

^{The manufacturers have said that Erenumab is the first and the only licensed drug designed primarily to prevent migraine. It can be administered without much help with an auto-injector pen once a month.}

^{“Erenumab is the first and only licensed treatment specifically designed to prevent migraine, demonstrating our commitment to developing innovative therapies for people living with some of the most debilitating conditions,” Haseeb Ahmad, managing director for UK and Ireland of Novartis Pharmaceuticals said.}

^{The new treatment seems to have the potential to help many people with chronic and episodic migraines. “Migraine is incredibly painful, and has symptoms that include vomiting and visual disturbance, so getting it frequently can literally ruin lives. That is why it is important that it becomes available to patients as soon as possible,” Wendy Thomas, chief executive of the Migraine Trust, said.}

Ants crawled up the eyes of the deceased who wasn't picked up by hospital staff after 5 hours of death

Madhya Pradesh

: 16 October 2019

Shivpuri : In Shivpuri’s district hospital on Wednesday an inhumane case has come forward where an admitted patient died on the hospital bed and no one came to pick him until 5 hours after death. THough the hospital calls it an ordinary death but witnesses have said that ants had ants started crawling on his eyes. When the patient died, no family was present with him.

Balachandra Lodhi (50) son of Roop Singh Lodhi, who lives in the city's Fakkad Colony, was admitted to the medical ward of the district hospital two days ago for treatment. It is being told that he was suffering from Tuberculosis. He died during treatment at 6 am, but the hospital staff did not check, then the nearby patients informed the hospital staff at 8 am. Despite this, the ward boy and nurses, including the doctor Dinesh Rajput on duty, paid no attention. Due to the dead body lying on the bed for five hours, ants started crawling on the patient's eye.

The patients called his wife Ramshree

The hallmark of how careless the hospital management is that they didnt even call his family members to inform it was the other patients who called his wife Ramshree Lodhi at 11 am when no one came to take care of the deceased Balchand.

Weeping Ramsree removed ants from her saree’s Pallu

As soon as Ramshree came to the hospital after receiving the information, she started crying bitterly. She was speechless when she saw ants on her husband's eye. According to the patients present Ramsree removed the ants from the pallu. Later, she took her husband's body from the hospital with the help of some other patients.

other incidents of medical negligence in district hospital

Many embarrassing incidents have occurred in the district hospital previously as well. About a year ago, mice in the District Hospital had bitten a newborn's finger. In another case a few months ago, the patient admitted in the district hospital was strangled to death. The patient was suffering from TB and was admitted by a woman. After which the patient was killed by strangling the neck of the patient in the morning due to a ground dispute and then somehow the police intercepted the case and brought the accused behind bars.

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