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

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

Published Friday, March, 9th 2018 in Industry Today

industrytoday.co.uk/market-...

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SheffieldJane

Hahaha! 👍

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DOH! Forgot to post link! : }

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SheffieldJane in reply to

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

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.

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Mstiles in reply to

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

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Hahahahahaha.

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

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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

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

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Rimmy in reply to

Yes hence the conflicting feelings !!

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SheffieldJane

What in the world is a neurological deficit? 🤯

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Rimmy in reply to SheffieldJane

Good question SJ ... !?

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PMRproAmbassador 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.

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SheffieldJane in reply to PMRpro

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

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PMRproAmbassador in reply to SheffieldJane

You know about it - just in normal English ;-)

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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....

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jinasc

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

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

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PMRproAmbassador 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...

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

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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...

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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!!

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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.

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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

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

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Stella3

Thanks for posting this Mamici1.

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