Shortage of psychiatrists, dissatisfaction of caregivers, clinical research at half mast, increase in the prevalence of disorders, painful care pathways, sacrificed patients and families in distress, psychiatry is close to the breaking point.
Beyond the inventory and the lack of resources, what kind of psychiatry do we dream of tomorrow? What are the promising innovations?
Surrounded by the best experts – psychiatrists, but also researchers, an epidemiologist, a director of the WHO Mental Health Program, a public prosecutor –, Patrick Lemoine and Boris Cyrulnik debate issues that cannot be ignored today: the prevention of among children and adolescents, excessively prescribed psychotropic drugs, reimbursement of psychologists, recognition of psychiatry as a crossroads discipline, the need to open up to other approaches, even those called “alternatives”.
It is time to make psychiatry a real priority, but also to rebuild and renew it.
SOLANA BEACH, California, April 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLPT) (the “Company”), a global platform company that provides brain navigation and delivery, today announced the successful registration of its Neuro Navigation portfolio with the Brazilian regulatory body, Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA) .
“I had the opportunity to see the ClearPoint Neuro Navigation System in action several times and was thrilled to learn that it was finally approved by the Brazilian regulatory agency,” said Raquel Rodrigues, MD, M.Sc, Pediatric Neurosurgeon and Neuro-oncologist in Brazil. “With a very intuitive interface and software, I personally believe that it is easy to manage its features, even for a neurosurgeon only trained in traditional neuro navigation methods. With ClearPoint we plan, for the first time in Latin America, to offer our patients unprecedented medical treatments, such as Convection Enhanced Delivery (CED) for brain cancer and neurodegenerative disorders with intra-procedural guidance by magnetic resonance imaging. Furthermore, with this system we hope to refine our DBS implants, deep brain biopsies and laser ablations. I am honored to lead the neurosurgical team that will perform the first neurosurgery with this splendid technology here in Brazil”.
“We are incredibly proud to have achieved ANVISA approval following an extensive review,” explained Megan Faulkenberry, Vice President of Quality at ClearPoint Neuro. “Our first approval in Latin America is an important milestone that supports our 4th pillar of growth: international expansion”. Every global approval we gain helps us and our pharmaceutical partners deliver new therapies, both clinically and in clinical trials, to patients with some of the most devastating neurological diseases.”
About ClearPoint Neuro
ClearPoint Neuro’s mission is to improve and restore the quality of life for patients and their families by enabling therapies for the most complex neurological disorders with pinpoint accuracy. Applications of the company’s current product portfolio include deep brain stimulation, laser ablation, biopsy, and drug delivery, biology, and brain gene therapy. The ClearPoint® Neuro Navigation System is FDA cleared, CE marked, and installed in over 65 locations in North America, Europe, and South America. ClearPoint Neuro partners with more than 50 biological/pharmaceutical companies, academic centers, and contract research organizations, providing solutions for the direct delivery of CNS therapeutics in preclinical studies and clinical trials worldwide. To date, over 6,000 procedures have been performed and supported by the company’s team of clinical experts, who provide support and services to our customers and partners. For more information, please visit www.clearpointneuro.com.
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Statements in this press release regarding the Company’s plans, growth and strategies may be forward-looking statements within the context of federal securities laws. Statements regarding the Company’s future events, developments and future performance, the size of the total addressable markets or market opportunity for the Company’s products and services, as well as management’s expectations, beliefs, plans, estimates or projections relating to the future , are forward-looking statements within the meaning of these laws. Uncertainties and risks might cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Particular uncertainties and risks include those related to: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, global instability, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and macroeconomic and inflationary conditions; future revenues from sales of the Company’s ClearPoint Neuro Navigation System and other new products offered by the Company; the Company’s ability to market, market and achieve broader market acceptance of the Company’s ClearPoint Neuro Navigation System and other new products offered by the Company; the ability of our biological partners and drug distributors to achieve commercial success, including the use of our products and services in their delivery of therapies; and risks inherent in the research, development and regulatory approval of new products. More detailed information regarding these and additional factors that might affect the Company’s actual results are described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, which was filed with Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Contato: Contato para os media – ClearPoint Neuro Jacqueline Keller, Vice-presidente de Marketing 949-900-6833 [email protected] Relações com Investidores – ClearPoint Neuro Caroline Corner, PhD ICR Westwicke [email protected]
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The dog is 9.14 cm tall and 12.7 cm long, regarding the size of a dollar bill, and weighs 553 grams
A Florida Chihuahua named Pearl has officially become the world’s smallest dog, according to a announcement from the Guinness Book of Records.
Born in September 2020, the pooch is 3.6 inches tall, “which means she’s shorter than a popsicle stick,” and 5 inches long, “regarding the same size as a dollar bill.” . Its weight is 553 grams, the book specifies.
POCKET-SIZED POOCH ???? Pearl, a two-year-old chihuahua, who measures around the same length as a dollar bill, has been named the world’s shortest dog by Guinness World Records. ⬇
— NBC2 (@NBC2) April 12, 2023
It should be noted that the previous record was held by Miracle Milly, a sister of Pearl’s mother who, with a height of 9.65 cm, died three years ago.
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Pocket-sized Chihuahua is the shortest dog in the world
— Newstuk-News (@n_newstuk) April 12, 2023
Like her aunt Milly, Pearl weighed just 28 grams at birth.
“We are blessed to have her,” said Vanessa Semler, Pearl’s owner. “And we’ve had this unique opportunity to break our own record,” she stated.
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Tragic accident on a cow farm in the USA!
More than 18,000 cattle died following a powerful explosion at a dairy farm in Texas. Authorities believe machines at the facility ignited methane gas.
“This was the deadliest cattle barn fire in Texas history and the investigation will take some time,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, 67, said Thursday. In fact, it was the deadliest incident on a US dairy farm to date.
Photos released by police show a huge plume of black smoke billowing from the facility. When police and rescue workers arrived at the scene of the fire, they found a worker trapped who had to be rescued and flown to hospital in critical condition. His life is no longer in danger.
The exact number of cows killed by the fire and smoke is not yet known – but a police spokesman told the BBC “at least 18,000 cattle” were killed. Although “some would have survived”. However, most are “probably so badly injured that they have to be killed”.
Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera told CBS regarding the barn cleaning system, “Maybe the machine overheated and the methane ignited and exploded.”
However, Texas authorities are still investigating the actual cause of the incident.
An animal protection organization called for fire protection to be improved on farms. Since 2013, almost 6.5 million farm animals have died in barn fires in the USA, including around six million chickens and around 7,300 cows. That’s why the 18,000 cattle are now particularly important.