Chest 2004 hosts world experts in pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine
...rom other airway disorders, such as COPD and vocal cord dysfunction. "CHEST 2004 gathers the most distinguished experts in chest medicine whose combined knowledge and experience have led to significant advances in pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine," said Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, President o...Length of stay for inpatient medical rehab decreasing, efficiency increasing; death rate on the rise
...n dysfunction, other neurologic conditions, spinal cord dysfunction [traumatic and nontraumatic], and orthopedic conditions), the researchers also examined changes in rehabilitation effectiveness, efficiency, discharge to home, living setting at 3- to 6-month follow-up, and death. The authors hypothesized...Human spinal cord cells help rats with Lou Gehrig's disease
Human primitive spinal cord cells delayed symptoms and paralysis by a week when implanted in the spinal cord of rats destined to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, researcher...New understanding of neural circuits may help development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices
...te and transmit complex signals through the spinal cord and out peripheral nerves in order to move an arm,... causes the loss of a limb or damage to the spinal cord can sever this communication line and prevent desired movement. In theory, a thought-controlled pros...Promise of stem cells amplified
...sity of California , Irvine , have reversed spinal cord damage in paralyzed adult rats, allowing them to w...tted to other cells in the brain and body. Spinal cord injury results in a cut through the axons, breaking the information circuit and resulting in paralys...Several new techniques show promise for spinal cord repair
...r transplanting cells into areas damaged by spinal cord injury and experimental drug treatments show promi...rch brings increasing hope for sufferers of spinal cord injury," says Oswald Steward, PhD, of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at the University of Californ...Nerve navigation findings prompt new direction for spinal cord research
...eir way across the midline of the brain and spinal cord in a developing embryo has been found by Medical C...e movement and feeling they enable lost to spinal cord injuries. "This kinase plays a role in helping direct axon movement across the spinal cord...AAN, ANA announce support for embryonic and adult human stem cell research
...e, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, and stroke, through embryonic stem cell research. While adult stem cell research is believed to hold less promise, the AAN and ANA believe both embryonic and adult stem cell research should be pursued rigorously and under close scrutiny. ...DepoDur found to be innovative option for postoperative pain relief
...d prior to surgery or after clamping the umbilical cord during cesarean section. DepoDur TM is not intended for intrathecal, intravenous, or intramuscular administration. Administration of DepoDur TM into the thoracic epidural space or higher has not been evaluated and therefore is not recommended. ...Researchers develop neural prosthesis allowing a monkey to feed self using only its brain
...osthetics for people, especially those with spinal cord injuries. The robotic arm, or neural prosthesis, i...from the many neurons is routed through the spinal cord to different muscle groups to generate movement. It takes thousands of neurons firing in concert to ...Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
... psychological well-being among people with spinal cord injury, pg 643 This study demonstrates that individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) who exercise twice a week report having less pain, stress, and depression than individu...Research on fabrics and cancer-fighting foods featured at ACS meeting
...rt, less cleaning Polymers that help heal spinal cord injuries, suits that never need cleaning, and brighter, more comfortable sports uniforms are some of the promising developments offered by materials research. These and other developments, including a presentation on genetically-engineered spider sil...News tips for Monday, November 8, 2004
...80 Engineering human heart valves from umbilical cord cells. Human umbilical cord cells can be frozen and later used as building blocks for new laboratory-grown "autologous" (origina...Brain's immune system triggered in autism
...rrounds, bathes and nourishes the brain and spinal cord - in six living patients with autism, ages 5 to 12 years. Compared with normal control brains, the brains of people with autism showed evidence of an ongoing inflammatory process in different regions of the brain and produced by cells known as ...Urban hospitals bear the brunt of motorcycle injuries
..., 10 new intracranial injuries, and one new spinal cord injury resulting from motorcycle crashes," Coben says. He notes that motorcycle-related injuries and deaths have "increased substantially" since 1997, a fact he and others attribute to a rollback or weakening of mandatory helmet laws in several state...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...egeneration. Other research has shown that spinal cord neurons undergo apoptosis -- cell death -- in rats with neuropathic pain. "Given that, by definition, chronic pain is a state of continuous persistent perception with associated negative affect and stress, one mechanistic explanation for the decre...Leukemia patients survive with stem cell transplant
... Researchers directly compared patients who had cord blood stem cell transplants with two groups: patie...ors. Survival rates were the same (22 percent) for cord blood and one antigen-mismatched unrelated bone marrow transplant patients--results that clearly ind...Replicating an eel's nerve circuitry may aid paralyzed people
...nd are unraveling the circuitry in an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant that may somed...y help paralyzed people walk again. After a spinal cord injury, many patients are unable to move because the brain is cut off from nerve control centers cal...Two days of post-surgical pain relief now possible with just one shot
...d prior to surgery or after clamping the umbilical cord during Caesarean section. DepoDur is not intended for intrathecal, intravenous, or intramuscular administration. Administration of DepoDur into the thoracic epidural space or higher has not been evaluated and therefore is not recommended. As with a......e sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, lymphoma, spinal cord injuries and many other ailments afflicting millions. In the United Kingdom, we're breaking new ground, rewriting medical books and helping to usher in the new medicine of the future. We fully acclaim Prop. 71 and view it as leap in the right directi...