Neurology

Zimbabwe: Refer Cases to Specialists

IT is now becoming clear that the parents of the teenage Ruwa boy suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy had rejected seeking competent medical help and instead destroyed the family, brought about their own deaths and almost...

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AAN Issues Statement on New NFL Concussion Policy

The American Academy of Neurology, the world's largest professional association of neurologists, is encouraged by news reports that the National Football League will soon implement a new policy requiring an independent...

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Advanced Pediatric Neurosurgery Program Focuses on Children's Brain Tumors, Other Nervous System...

Responding to a growing need in central and northeast Pennsylvania for highly specialized care of pediatric brain tumors and other central nervous system disorders, Geisinger's Janet Weis Children's Hospital has launched a...

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Man in coma for 23 years was conscious

Paralysed patient could not move or communicate with doctors until Belgian neurologist tested new brain scanner For 23 years Rom Houben was trapped in his own body, unable to communicate with his doctors or family. They...

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StemCells, Inc. Initiates Landmark Trial Targeting "Communication Highway" of the Brain

StemCells, Inc. Initiates Landmark Trial Targeting ''Communication Highway'' of the Brain Study Being Conducted at UCSF Children's Hospital StemCells, Inc . (NASDAQ: STEM) announced today that it has commenced patient...

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Reassuring pregnancy findings for women with MS

Multiple sclerosis has little effect on women's chances of having a healthy pregnancy, according to the latest figures. Previously, doctors were uncertain about how the disease affected pregnancy, and some women may have been...

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Statins Prevent Stroke Recurrences… But Can They Improve Stroke Outcome?

First, multiple studies firmly established the value of statins in reducing the risk of ischemic stroke among patients with cardiovascular disease. Then the truly seminal Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol...

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Ten-Year Detection Rate of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations in a Large, Multiethnic, Defined...

From the Center for Cerebrovascular Research, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, and Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Neurology, Neurological Surgery, and Medicine, University of California, San...

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Blood Pressure and White-Matter Disease Progression in a Biethnic Cohort. Atherosclerosis Risk in...

From the Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md; Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology,...

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Myositis: Investigators at Harvard University publish new data on myositis

Fresh data on myositis are presented in the report 'Inclusion body myositis: old and new concepts.' According to a study from the United States, "Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is the most common idiopathic inflammatory myopathy...

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