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Monday, September 10, 2012
Deep-brain Stimulation May Help Patients with Parkinson’s, Essential Tremor
Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) may stop uncontrollable shaking in patients with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor by imposing its own rhythm on the brain, report two studies recently published by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham …
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Line Drive Head Injury Could Have Killed Oakland A’s Pitcher Brandon McCarthy
The injury to Oakland Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy, who was struck in the head by a line drive hit by Los Angeles Angels shortstop Erick Aybar on Sept. 5, could have killed him. Although McCarthy walked off the field following the blow, an examination …
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Survival Rates Shorter for Patients with Multiple Brain Tumor Sites
When aggressive, malignant tumors appear in more than one location in the brain, patient survival tends to be significantly shorter than when the disease begins as a single tumor, even though patients in both cases undergo almost identical treatments …
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Akron, Ohio-based Hospital Now Using Leksell Gamma Knife Pefexion Unit
Until recently, Nanci Redd thought she would need surgery to treat the uncontrolled dizziness caused by a noncancerous growth in her brain. Instead, she will be the first patient to be treated with Akron General Health System’s new Leksell Gamma Knife …
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
NFL Players More Likely Than General Population To Die from Alzheimer’s, ALS
New research concludes that professional football players are three times more likely to die from diseases that damage brain cells, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease …
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
New Mechanical Device Removes Stroke-Causing Blood Clots From Brain
A new device that mechanically removes stroke-causing clots from the brain may be a game-changer for doctors, who have very few proven treatmentments for stroke, which the fourth leading cause of death and a common cause of long-term disability in the …
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
National Institutes of Health To Receive $30 Million from NFL for Concussion, Brain Trauma Research
Today, National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the organization is pledging $30 million for medical research to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health …
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Risk of Developing Certain Brain Tumors Caused by Genomic Variants
People who carry a “G” instead of an “A” at a specific spot in the sequence of their genetic code have about a six-fold higher risk of developing certain types of brain tumors, reports researchers at the University of California, San Francisco …
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Journal of Neurosurgery Supplement Explores Cutting-Edge Therapies for Spinal Cord Injuries
The Journal of Neurosurgery (JNS) Publishing Group has announced publication of the North American Clinical Trials Network (NACTN)/AOSpine North America (AOSNA) Focus Issue on Spinal Cord Injury, a supplement to the September issue of the Journal of …
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Researchers Dig Deeper into Differences Between Human Brains vs. Chimp Brains
Ninety-six percent of a chimpanzee’s genome is the same as a human’s — it’s the other 4 percent (and the vast differences) that intrigue Soojin Yi, a faculty member at Georgia Tech’s School of Biology. For example, why do humans have a high …
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