Chapter 456: ALS
After Su Zhe took a bath, Xiao Ash and Little White Tiger were still entangled, not separated, but they were motionless.
When Su Zhe walked over to take a look, he realized that the two little guys had fallen asleep.
Seeing such a scene, Su Zhe couldn't help but laugh, and then he carefully separated them, and then carried them back to the nest to sleep.
After returning to the room, Su Zhe turned on the computer and suddenly saw a piece of news.
There is a selfie video of a patient in this news, and this video is about the process of this patient volunteering for a new drug.
"Let me introduce myself first, I am a patient with a disease of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is ALS, and I have been suffering for 3 years now." In the video, the patient is lying on a hospital bed, and his speech speed is a little slow, and it can be seen from the video that he is struggling to speak.
"There is currently no cure for ALS, nor can it improve its symptoms, but at most it can only prolong the survival time of patients. However, there is a pharmaceutical company that is working on a new drug, and now it has made a lot of gains, and I am a volunteer for the first phase trial of this new drug, and today is my first day of treatment. ”
"There will always be risks in the birth of a new drug, and as the first phase of the trial of a new drug, I can't be sure what the consequences will be."
"But I won't back down because of the unpredictable risk, because this new drug was born mainly because of me, and my brother developed this drug in order to cure my disease, and for this new drug, his pharmaceutical factory almost went bankrupt, but fortunately, he survived in the end. And now it's starting to pay off. So try new drugs. It is my duty to do so. ”
"Here, I would like to thank my brother for all these years, and my fiancée, who has always been so unabandoned, even if I can only lie in bed, I can't even move, and sometimes it is difficult to even say a word to her. But she never complained. ”
"It's because of them, so I've never given up on myself, and I've always believed that I'll be able to get back on my feet, and I'll carry her into the auditorium when the time comes."
"It's been three hours since I took the new medication, and I don't know if it's my delusion, but I feel like I'm feeling better, which is a good sign."
At this time, many people sat in front of the screen like Su Zhe, watching this video, although the patient's speech speed was very slow, but no one was impatient. On the contrary, I admired his perseverance.
Su Zhe admired that this patient could tell the truth, and he didn't say that he was experimenting with new drugs to make a sacrifice for mankind. Instead, he took the initiative to say why he volunteered to test the new drug, because the owner of the pharmaceutical industry who researched this new drug was the patient's brother, and the patient volunteered for his brother and himself.
This video records the whole process of this patient taking the new drug, so this video is very long, and now this video has gained a lot of attention on the Internet.
Because if this new drug is successful, it will be a great boon for mankind, because it means that mankind has conquered another major disease.
Su Zhe has a good understanding of ALS, which is also called motor neuron disease, which is the gradual weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the limbs, trunk, chest and abdomen after the injury of upper motor neurons and lower motor neurons.
The cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is unknown, but in 20% of cases it may be related to heredity and genetic defects. In addition, some environmental factors, such as genetics and heavy metal poisoning, may cause motor neuron damage.
It is a malignant disease, as its name suggests, the person who suffers from it loses any mobility as if frozen in ice and snow, but the process is not rapid, but the body shrinks and weakens in part and part. The patient's intelligence and memory are not affected, and the most typical representative of the patient is the scientific giant Hawking.
According to the clinical symptoms, it can be roughly divided into two types, namely limb onset type and bulbar onset type.
At present, human beings know very little about ALS, neither any cause can be found, nor there is no way to treat it, and the average survival time of patients is only 3 years.
So far, there is no effective treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and at best it can only prolong the survival of patients.
The global incidence of ALS is 5 to 6 per 100,000, and the course of ALS progresses rapidly, with a three-year mortality rate of about 50% and a five-year mortality rate of about 90%.
The reason why Su Zhe understands ALS, a rare disease, is because the new drug currently developed by Changhua Pharmaceutical Factory is to treat ALS.
So after Su Zhe saw this video, he hoped that the patient could be cured in the end, but he was a little worried, because the new drugs he was taking were the same as those of Changhua Pharmaceutical Factory, both of which were for the treatment of ALS, and now the trial of Changhua Pharmaceutical Factory has come to an end, and the new drug will be handed over to the Drug Administration for approval and will be put on sale soon.
And if this patient is finally successfully treated, judging from the attention of this video, it is the best publicity for the new drug, and the new drug listing of Changhua Pharmaceutical Factory will face a lot of challenges, and it is difficult to say whether it can win, so Su Zhe is so conflicted in his heart.
It's just a blessing or a curse, and if two new drugs for ALS appear, it will also be a good thing for patients.
In this video, people can see that this patient, the condition is getting better and better, the patient who was originally unable to move, under the long-term use of this new drug, the body's reaction is getting bigger and bigger, and in the end, the patient does not even need to be supported, he can already stand up, although he is still unable to walk on his own, but this is already a very incredible miracle.
The people who saw this place were sincerely happy for this patient, and Su Zhe was also among them.
So far, there have been no side effects of the new drug being taken by the patient, and it can be said that this new drug can be considered a success at this stage.
And the brother that the patient talked about, now he is staying alone in the office, and the patient's brother can't help crying after seeing this video, because all these years of hard work have finally paid off, and his brother finally has a chance to stand up again.
And the patient's brother also understands the patient's painstaking efforts, the patient is to help his brother, so he made this documentary, which the patient's brother didn't know before, and he, like most people, inadvertently saw this video and only knew about it. (To be continued......)