Tremor

KOLOA, Hawaii — Dual mobility components in total hip arthroplasty are a proven concept that decrease dislocation rates in patients at high risk for instability, according to a presenter here.

Injections of botulinum toxin were associated with greater improvements in isolated and essential head tremor at 18 weeks compared with placebo, according to data from a randomized trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $11.4 million to a Boston-based biotherapeutics firm to advance its novel oral prodrug of endogenous allopregananolone, LYT-300, to treat Fragile X-associated Tremor Ataxia syndrome.

A 76-year-old man makes an appointment for an evaluation of shakiness.

The American Academy of Neurology has issued a guideline providing recommendations for treating motor symptoms in people with early Parkinson’s disease.

Cala Trio, a wrist-worn device that stimulates wrist nerves to disrupt tremulous activity in the brain, safely and effectively reduced essential tremor in patients, data from a prospective study showed.

Simplifying the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool, or FNAST, could improve its use in making treatment decisions for neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, study findings showed.