Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the term for medical products and practices that are not part of standard care. Standard care is what medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy and allied health professionals, such as registered nurses and physical therapists, practice. Alternative medicine means treatments that you use instead of standard ones. Complementary medicine means nonstandard treatments that you use along with standard ones.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
First Skin Patch Sanctioned for Alzheimer's
Exelon, approved in 2000 in capsule form to treat Alzheimer's dementia and in 2006 to treat Parkinson's dementia, can cause gastrointestinal side effects typical of its class of drug, called cholinesterase inhibitors.
The skin patch, while maintaining a steady supply of the drug over 24 hours, showed three times fewer reports of nausea and vomiting than the capsule form, Novartis said.
As with the capsule form, the company recommended that the medicated patch be used with caution in people with a history of so-called "sick sinus syndrome," ulcers, asthma and other chronic lung diseases, seizures, or urinary obstruction.
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For more information about this drug, visit the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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