ten New Medical


Breakthroughs to Help You Live Longer and


Healthier in 2019 BY STACEY COLINO


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n the world of modern medicine, it’s not unusual for a treatment that sounds too good to be true to end up being exactly that: too good


to be true, as in a sham or simply ineff ective treat- ment. But every once in a while, a game-changing


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innovation comes along that’s real and ends up revolutionizing how a health condition or disease is treated. We’re not just talking about futuristic or sci-fi inspired medical developments like 3D printers for organs or brain-controlled prosthetic limbs. Even common health problems (like migraines and knee injuries) are getting the VIP treatment, thanks to exciting medical advances.


Here’s a look at 10 mind-blowing breakthroughs that are signifi cantly upgrading the way various medical conditions are handled:


A WEAPON AGAINST CHRONIC MIGRAINE ATTACKS


In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration ap- proved three injectable drugs that are specifi cally designed to prevent migraine attacks.


All three drugs — erenumab (Aimovig), freman-


ezumab (Ajovy), and galcanezumab (Emgal- ity) — bind to the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor, to prevent nerve signaling that would trigger the migraine process, explains Brian Grosberg, M.D., director of the Hartford Health- care Headache Center and a professor of neurol- ogy at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. “This is the fi rst class of medications that was


specifi cally designed for migraine prevention.” Most medications that are used to prevent mi-


graine fl are-ups were created to treat other health problems such as high blood pressure, depres- sion, and seizure disorders; many of these are only moderately eff ective for treating migraines and some have signifi cant side eff ects such as extreme drowsiness, dizziness, or digestive distress. The new drugs, which are available by prescrip-


tion and seem to be well tolerated, require chronic migraine suff erers to self-administer injections once a month or once every three months, de- pending on the medication used. Clinical studies have found that using these


drugs reduces the number of migraine days per month signifi cantly.


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