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Monday, October 27, 2014
IGRT Commonly Used to Treat Pediatric Tumors
While image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is a commonly used modality to ensure treatment accuracy in the management of pediatric tumors, according to a study recently published in Practical Radiation Oncology, consensus recommendations are needed …
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Monday, October 27, 2014
Invisible Implants Open New Window Into the Brain
A team of engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) are developing invisible implantable medical sensor arrays. The new technology has applications in a variety of fields ranging from neuroscience to cardiac care. Neural researchers …
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Human Skin Cells Reprogrammed Directly into Brain Cells
In a recent study published in the journal Neuron, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, found a way to convert human skin cells directly into a specific type of brain cell affected by Hungtington’s disease; an inherited …
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Stress-related Inflammation May Increase Risk for Depression
According to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, preexisting differences in the sensitivity of a key part of each individual’s immune system confer a greater risk of developing stress-related depression …
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Radiation, Then Chemo Improves Survival in Adults with Low-grade Glioma
A chemotherapy regimen consisting of procarbazine, CCNU and vincristine (PCV) administered following radiation therapy improved progression-free survival and overall survival in adults with low-grade gliomas, when compared to radiation therapy alone. …
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Breakthrough Replicates Human Brain Cells for Use in Alzheimer’s Research
In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston created what they are referring to as Alzheimer’s in a dish — a petri dish with human brain cells that developed the telltale structures …
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Study Reveals Mechanism That Repairs Brain After Stroke
According to a new study recently published in the journal, Science, a previously unknown mechanism through which the brain produces new nerve cells after a stroke has been discovered. Researchers at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden …
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Researchers Find Protein Linked to DNA Damage and the Development of Child Brain Tumors
In a recent study published in the journal Developmental Cell, scientists at the University of Montreal discovered a mechanism that promotes the progression of medulloblastoma, the most common brain tumor found in children. During the study, the research …
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Researchers Develop a New Target for Personalized Brain-cancer Treatment
In a recent study published in the journal Genome Research, researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new fusion protein found in approximately 15 percent of secondary glioblastomas. The finding offers …
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Practicing Simple Yoga Pose Reduces Adolescent Scoliosis by Almost Half
In a recent clinical trial that studied yoga for the reduction of scoliosis curvature, researchers found that a basic yoga pose — done for an average of only 1.5 minutes a day, six times a week for two months — reduced idiopathic scoliosis curves …
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