Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
... celebrities, to alert viewers to the symptoms and damage caused by stroke. The drug tissue plasminogen act... a three-hour window of symptom onset before brain damage becomes irreversible. For patients to receive tPA, they must get to a hospital soon after their sym...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
...affected by the disease face possible paralysis or damage to the brain and other organs. The disease frustrates doctors because there's no effective treatment even though the responsible gene was identified more than a decade ago. Currently little can be done to treat a disease that affects more people than...New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
...articularly in those patients with no obvious disc damage who previously failed treatment." Following their diagnoses with MR neurography, all patients received treatment that included spinal surgery, nerve or muscle surgery, open MR guided injections, or non-interventional pain management that included phy...Hands-on or hands-free, using a cell phone while driving is not safe, researchers find
...00 injuries, and 1.5 million instances of property damage in the United States each year. Can hands-free devices reduce accidents, fatalities, or damage? No, say human factors researchers published in a special driver distraction section in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Soci...Study shows that diabetes increases risk of blood poisoning
...ost of health troubles, including kidney problems, damage to nerves and blood vessels and blindness. A heightened risk of infections in diabetic people has also been suggested. The condition known as sepsis can be brought on by bloodstream infection, and may lead to fever and septic shock, a potentially fat...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ipants. No swimming -- due to the potential water damage to the motion sensors. No particular activity regime was endorsed or prescribed. Participants were told to go about their normal work, recreation, rest and romance routines. Says James Levine, M.D., the Mayo Clinic endocrinologist who led the stud...Researchers discover genetic variant that may explain why women develop M.S. more than men
... treatments that can minimize the tissue and nerve damage the disease causes, and 3) it may advance the sear... levels of interferon gamma could intensify the MS damage processes and make the disease worse. Combining these three lines of evidence -- 1) women get MS mo...Cooling lessens brain damage in sick newborn babies
...ed of oxygen at birth can reduce the risk of brain damage and cerebral palsy, according to an international ... that when the brain is starved of oxygen at birth damage does not occur immediately; instead, as Professor John Wyatt of University College London points out...Satellite data reveal immense pollution pool over Bihar, India
...e," Di Girolamo said. "The airborne particles can damage delicate lung tissue, and by altering the radiative heating profile of the atmosphere, the particles may change temperature and precipitation patterns." Prior to the MISR study, atmospheric models had predicted a tongue of pollution extending across ...Clinical trial of Etanercept for Wegener's disease shows no benefit
... frequently leads to kidney failure, hearing loss, damage to the respiratory tract, peripheral nerve injury, and other complications, according to Stone. Etanercept, the first of a class of drugs called tumor necrosis factor inhibitors approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for the treatment of r...Scientists identify brain regions that decide where we look
...ve this discovery may also explain why people with damage to the medial frontal cortex often seem incapable of generating actions of their own free will, or choosing between alternative actions....Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
...f the patients in Kemmerer's recent study also had damage to their brains' left hemispheres, in an area know...eaning of prepositions. The patients with damage to the supramarginal gyrus did not score high on the tasks that evaluated their knowledge of preposi...Communication between primary-care physicians and patients can reduce medication-related problems
...uld have caused significant problems such as organ damage or bleeding had they not been corrected." The 'moral' of the study is that "patients have a lot to tell us about symptoms they experience due to their medications," Weingart observes. "And there is a great deal of opportunity for doctors to prevent h......systems on the ground as well. Magnetic storms can damage power systems and pipelines, whilst the changes in the magnetic field can mislead any navigational systems that use magnetic compasses. These include compasses operating underground to guide the drills used to find and recover oil. For scientists, ...Steroids increase death risk from traumatic head injury
...Alderson explains. "It is thought that some of the damage after a brain injury results from inflammation following the initial injury and that reducing inflammation might reduce this secondary injury." In the case of severe head injuries, the inflammation leads to swelling of the brain and its surrounding t...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...ting growth, including the cellular and functional damage it created. "A larger-than-normal heart is a serious medical condition, known as hypertrophy, and is a common feature of heart failure that can be fatal," says study senior author and cardiologist David Kass, M.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins...Rebuilding wounded veterans: Annual review of limb loss & prosthetics research
..., Number 4)Pg. 535 Shoe choice impacts soft tissue damage to residual limb of people with amputations Investigators quantify the structural properties and energy dissipation capacity of prosthetic feet and footwear. They found energy dissipation capacity knowledge can aid in prosthetic foot and shoe selec...Mental health crisis looming for tsunami survivors, warns psychologist just back from Indonesia
...isaster of this scale, the extent of psychological damage is enormous," he said. "Many individuals may never totally recover and will have concerns and fear that will not be completely resolved. But if people can get treatment early on, the prognosis for improvement is much better. "The real concern is f...Antibody treatment partially reverses nerve damage in Alzheimer disease
...upon clearance of Abeta, if significant structural damage to nerves is reversed, remains, or continues. Usin...ificant decrease in the amount of structural nerve damage after only 3 days. The study suggests that Abeta deposition leads to ongoing nerve damage and that u...... Antibody treatment partially reverses nerve damage in Alzheimer disease Researchers from Washington ...upon clearance of Abeta, if significant structural damage to nerves is reversed, remains, or continues. Using a mouse model of Alzheimer disease in which ...