This is from a technology site so take what they are saying with a grain of salt. Video training on how to apply it. Still seems more like a puff piece.
Patented by Amgen.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-03-26/ibm_s_watson_making_diagnosis_and_treatment_recommendations.html
According to an article in the March 2013 edition of Atlantic magazine
titled “The Robot Will See You Now," IBM’s super computer Watson has
teamed up with Memorial Sloan/Kettering Hospital to make diagnosis and
treatment recommendations. IBM Watson has been programmed with 600,000
pieces of medical evidence from over two million pages of medical text
as well as the entire English version of Wikipedia all stored in 15
terabytes of RAM (15 trillion bytes of memory). This is roughly
equivalent to the information contained on a bookshelf that is 19 miles
long.
“Computer-driven, evidence-based advice like that provided
by IBM’s Watson gives validity to the off label use of prescription
drugs” states Rolando Rodriguez, M.D., Neurosurgeon at Neurological
Wellness Center. “The perispinal administration of the drug etanercept
(Enbrel) to patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, stroke or traumatic
brain injury (TBI) has the potential to enable a significant recovery in
memory, mood, speech and physical function,” stated Dr. Rodriguez.
“Doctors and nurses are drowning in information with new research
popping up daily. They often don’t know what to do and are guessing as
well as they can,” said Samuel Nussbaum, WellPoint’s Chief Medical
Officer.
A general consensus is emerging among healthcare
professionals that to effectively address the many problems in the
present healthcare system in America will require a fundamental
redesign, a transformation in which existing modalities are replaced by
new care delivery paradigms. The expansion of computer medical decision
support systems like that provided by IBM's Watson has emerged as one of
the areas where there is broad support among the medical community. The
proliferation of biomedical information will continue to accelerate
taxing the cognitive abilities of physicians as they struggle with the
weight of new research findings, clinical guidelines, and
recommendations of best practices. Computerized medical decision support
systems certainly have the potential to produce better outcomes,
increase productivity, lower costs and reduce the occurrence of adverse
events.
Perispinal injections of the drug Enbrel are an excellent
example. “The medical research is clear: a single injection has the
potential to produce a life-changing recovery in persons afflicted with
stroke or traumatic brain injury with little to no risk to health, yet
the procedure is only slowly starting to gain traction with mainstream
medicine,” states Dr. Rodriguez. IBM’s Watson has the potential to be a
major game changer in the field of medicine. When physicians’ diagnoses
and treatment decisions are evaluated with computer-assisted 20/20
hindsight WellPoint’s Samuel Nussbaum said that “health care
professionals make accurate treatment decisions in lung cancer cases
only 50% of the time.” “The dictates of a capitalistic healthcare system
preclude a drug like Enbrel from ever gaining FDA approval for the
treatment of stroke or TBI. The estimated cost for repurposing Enbrel
for treating stroke and TBI is $100 million. Considering just one to
eight doses are required for the complete treatment, I can be confident
this drug will never be approved for stroke or TBI” said Augusto
Ramirez, M.D., of Neurological Wellness Center. Neurological Wellness
Center offers a complete two-hour course on Alzheimer's treatment,
stroke treatment and traumatic brain injury treatment covering all
aspects of perispinal injection technique at their center in Managua
Nicaragua.
For many, flying to Managua Nicaragua to receive this
personalized training is an enormous expense and inconvenience. To
overcome this problem, Neurological Wellness Center, under the direction
of Augusto Ramirez, M.D., created Perispinal Enbrel Step-By-Step
Instructional Video and accompanying e-book.
Neurological
Wellness Center’s perispinal Enbrel is profoundly effective as an
Alzheimer’s treatment, stroke treatment and TBI treatment. The complete
treatment recommendation: for stroke is one 25mg injection of Enbrel
every four days for a total of four doses over 16 days; for TBI is one
25mg injection of Enbrel every four days for a total of eight doses.
This compares with Amgen/Pfizer’s FDA-approved dose schedule for
moderate plaque psoriasis of 50mg twice weekly for three months followed
by 50mg weekly for life. The Neurological Wellness Center’s maximum
recommended dose for Alzheimer’s disease is 25mg/week for life.
The
drug Enbrel is available now. Enbrel received FDA approval in 1998. Its
safety profile is well understood. For Enbrel to effectively treat
Alzheimer’s, stroke and TBI, it must be administered to the back of the
neck precisely between the cervical vertebrae C-5 and C-6. (I wouldn't allow just any doctor to inject me at this location)This
perispinal injection allows Enbrel to enter the brain by lymph drainage
assisted by gravity. Fortunately for the millions of people now
afflicted with Alzheimer’s, stroke and TBI, a video is now available
online detailing in step-by-step fashion how to administer a perispinal
injection of Enbrel,” said Dr. Rolando Rodrigues.
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