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Extended-release forms of these medications, including the skin patch or gel, may cause fewer side effects.
CNN: Overactive bladder
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In this study, the researchers tested the skin patch on mice with an age-related brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer's.
BBC: NEWS | Health | Alzheimer's vaccine 'in a patch'
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RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) -- Researchers have developed a skin patch that appears more effective than pills for controlling the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
CNN: New patch may control Parkinson's symptoms better - Sept. 3, 1996
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Some are even available as a skin patch for transdermal application.
CNN: Better understanding of dementia leading to more effective therapies
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Smokeless nicotine, ingested via a skin patch, is less than ideal because its effects on the body are too broad to treat diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer's.
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Tests in Japan and the Philippines show that after three days with the skin patch, those infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the germ that causes tuberculosis, develop redness and swelling round it.
ECONOMIST: A poor diagnosis
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They're used in medicine to inject liquids, patch skin and to stimulate acupuncture points.
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The one was on his index finger was shattered and is now gone, nothing now but a soft patch of skin.
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Biosensors that can be worn on clothing or jewelry, held against the skin by a Band-Aid-like patch, or inserted beneath the skin are now capable of monitoring a host of chronic diseases.
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Each had a patch of skin on one arm shaved, marked with a pen and surrounded by petroleum jelly (to fence the bed bugs in), and a commensurate patch on the other marked and surrounded, but not shaved.
ECONOMIST: Body hair
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She has exquisite features, and that skin, which we see when a patch has been completed, is glorious.
NEWYORKER: Creep Shows
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring new labels on a birth control patch that delivers hormones through the skin.
NPR: FDA Orders Label For Contraceptive Patch