Acupressure and gentle massage can be used to treat a pinched nerve. Acupuncture may treat a pinched nerve. The main treatment for a pinched nerve is rest. A woman with neck pain from a pinched nerve.
Yervoy is the first drug approved for treating this indication. The FDA has not approved any new first-line medicines in over ten years. A dosage of Yervoy is expected to cost about $30,000; therapy of four infusions over three months will cost around $120,000. The drug is estimated to have a market of more than $400m in 2011.
Yervoyâ¢ (ipilimumab) is a prescription medication approved to treat melanoma, a dangerous type of skin cancer, when it has spread to other areas of the body (metastasized) or cannot be removed with surgery. It belongs to a group of medicines called monoclonal antibodies.