GCA Treatment Market- Poised for Steady Growth in the Future 2017 - 2025

Hmmm? Good to see GCA in the news at least!

Published Friday, March, 9th 2018 in Industry Today

industrytoday.co.uk/market-...

[SheffieldJane]

Hahaha! 👍

[Hidden in reply to SheffieldJane]

DOH! Forgot to post link! : }

[SheffieldJane in reply to Hidden]

Good morning Melissa. Welcome to another day in paradise, 😊

[Hidden in reply to SheffieldJane]

Hahahahaha. REALLY!!! BRAIN FOG X 100!!!

Last night I had dinner all prepared to go into oven at 5:45, I was sitting on the couch, resting, relaxed, researching misc stuff on Google and realised at 6:15ish that I had never put chicken in the oven! Then 50 minutes late, as I was getting ready to serve the chicken, I realised I had never started the potatoes!!! Needless to say, dinner sucked and I was not a happy camper! Mr White, smiled, ate every bit and didn't say a word. : ) Lovely man.

[Mstiles in reply to Hidden]

Ha ha ha. At least you didn’t have toast in the oven causing smoke or have the bath running and narrowly missed a flood!, a few of my adventures with prednisone

[Hidden in reply to Mstiles]

Hahahahahaha.

No... nothing in the oven!!!!!

[Rimmy]

Hi Melissa you have obviously been delving deep in your research - and kind of fascinating you found this 'market research' approach but blimey - 'poised for growth' !!! I have VERY mixed feelings about the context of THIS 'growth' descriptor with the focus the 'industrial' variety here - as I for one like to try to avoid 'my own' commoditisation . But I guess from some perspectives sometimes medical and 'Big Pharma' we are a 'subset' (amongst numerous other subsets and 'categories') of people to whom drugs like Prednisone and others can be marketed - as what 'choice' do we really have - we NEED them !!!....

XX

[Hidden in reply to Rimmy]

The devil that you know... I guess. (?) Perhaps a necessary evil.

[Rimmy in reply to Hidden]

Yes hence the conflicting feelings !!

X

[SheffieldJane]

What in the world is a neurological deficit? 🤯

[Rimmy in reply to SheffieldJane]

Good question SJ ... !?

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to SheffieldJane]

medlineplus.gov/ency/articl...

"Neurologic deficit

A neurologic deficit refers to abnormal function of a body area. This altered function is due to weaker function of the brain, spinal cord, muscles, or nerves.

Examples include:

Abnormal reflexes

Inability to speak

Decreased sensation

Loss of balance

Mental function problems

Vision changes

Walking problems

Weakness of the arms or legs

"

So in GCA the most common neurological deficit is loss of vision.

[SheffieldJane in reply to PMRpro]

Thank you for explaining, I thought it was some new horror I didn’t know about.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to SheffieldJane]

You know about it - just in normal English

[Telian in reply to PMRpro]

Mmmmm.. can relate to 6 of the 8 - no walking's not one and inability to speak is definitely not one (according to my husband!) .......although I have tested positive for MS but because I do not display the walking problems and already have an AI it's 50/50 whether I have it....

[jinasc]

Are GCA has now come to the attention of Market research.............hmmmmmmmmmmm

Spain has two or three highly important research places...........

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to jinasc]

Probably because market research companies are involved at all stages of drug development - to identify unmet needs, how they would like them filled, what aspects of the drug are most important to them and so on. And then they have to sell the stuff...

[Hidden]

Some editor on that Police Gazette! Sod the war Eh!! Life went on! Any evidence GCA was around before all our Century modern life? (chemicals/food) There was always stress & people lived harder lives in the past so it can't be that! ATB

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

Plenty - GCA was first described by Hutchison in 1890 but did not really become part of medical awareness until Horton had 2 similar patients at the Mayo Clinic in the early 1930s.

sciencedirect.com/topics/me...

[Hidden in reply to PMRpro]

Another old age condition those days! Treated with what pain management? All they had was alcohol, morphine or religion. Blimey add on pred. & well F me no change there then!!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

Not that common though - people simply didn't live long enough for that. Most people probably went blind or died of stroke/other cardiovascular disease. Don't knock pred - it has saved a whole load of lives since the mid-1940s when it was created.

Opiods don't usually help GCA pain.

[Hidden in reply to PMRpro]

I'm not knocking pred. My pain saviour. Mis. com. ! Just sarky on modern medical science & their commercial interests for our health! Nothing changes really! ATB

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Hidden]

Oh definitely!!!! Commercial interests have spoiled a few projects with great potential for good. Unfortunately without them - Actemra wouldn't exist at all.

[Stella3]

Thanks for posting this Mamici1.