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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Study Says Soccer Players May Injure Brains When ‘Heading’ Ball
Soccer players who repeatedly strike the ball with their heads may be causing measurable damage to their brains, even if they never suffer a concussion, reports a new study that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association. By examining …
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Unveils Robotic Surgery Suite
On Monday, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center dedicated a new surgical suite to house its robotic surgery program. The $3 million project expanded the patient recovery area, updated and redecorated the family waiting area, and supported technology …
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
High School Athlete Designs Award-Winning Concussion Sensor
Having suffered a broken collarbone twice in the past year while playing both football and lacrosse, teenager Braeden Benedict knows a thing or two about sports injuries. And he’s now on a path to develop a device that eventually may help detect one …
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Researcher Tests Claim that Tau, not Plaque, Is Cause for Alzheimer’s Disease
As a young PhD student at Cambridge University in the 1980s, Claude Wischik, MD, PhD, was on a mission to collect brains in an effort to determine what causes Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which afflicts about 36 million people worldwide. Over a dozen …
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Newborn Neurons Are Critical for Memory, Even in the Adult Aging Brain
Stony Brook University researchers say that newly generated or newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus are critical for memory retrieval — that’s according to the Nov. 11 online edition of Nature Neuroscience. The functional role of newborn neurons …
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Incident Proves Why Concussion Management in Youth Sports Requires Adult Intervention
New safety rules were in place in central Massachusetts: Any 10-to-12-year-old playing Pop Warner football who was suspected of having a concussion was not allowed to return to play until cleared by a doctor. In addition, a certified EMT would be present …
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Friday, November 9, 2012
New iPad App Helps Train Neurosurgeons
Future neurosurgeons can hone necessary skills on their iPads using a new training app called VCath. The free mobile app was developed at Bangor University in the U.K. and helps neurosurgeons-in-training master an appreciation of the ventricular system …
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Mayo Clinic, Collaborators Receive Grant to Study Use of Electronic Media in Treating Traumatic Brain Injury
Mayo Clinic and collaborators — including the Departments of Health in Minnesota and Iowa, Regional Health in South Dakota and Sanford Health in North Dakota — have received a $2.2 million federal grant to test new ways to offer specialized traumatic …
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
State of Mississippi Ranks High for Traumatic Brain Injury
There is no long-term, inpatient care facility in Mississippi for those suffering from severe brain injury, says Lee Jenkins, executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Mississippi. As a result, patients such as 34-year-old Neal Sandifer, …
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Common Food Preservative May Slow or Stop Tumor Growth
A common food preservative call nisin may slow or stop squamous cell head and neck cancers, according to a University of Michigan study. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) approved nisin as safe for human …
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