Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Now Offers Microwave Thermotherapy For Treatment Of Prostate Disease
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...ion,Satish adds that they sustain subtle executive function deficits which are hardto measure using environmental tests. "By being able to consistently measurewhat problems these brain-injured patients are having, we can tailorrehabilitation efforts much better. This program is both time effective and costef...Neurobiologists Show How The Brain Processes Signals From Pheromones
...g up the wiring diagram, and strangely enough, its function can besubstituted by a molecule whose function is totally unrelated," says Mombaerts. In fact, Mombaerts says, the two receptors share only one thi...... show that part of the recovery is dueto the brain function reorganization, a re-balancing of the network, like thecast of a play adjusting to the loss of a key actor. The adjustment can beginwithin a day or two after the stroke, and can continue for many months....New Three Year Follow-up Data Of Novantrone In Multiple Sclerosis
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...tagnant,artificial assist devices serve a critical function by providing patients ameans to sustain heart function until human donor hearts can be found. Thereare currently more than 4,200 patients on the national ...Better Integration Of Long-Term And Acute Care Of Elderly Needed
...alysis of the Medical Research Council's cognitive function and ageing study. They found that disabled elderly people both use acute hospitals extensively and a large proportion of them live outside institutions, depending on formal and informal care givers. In their analysis of 10,377 people in Cambridgeshi......nsplantation, surgeons are not only replacingorgan function but they are also exposing the recipient to the donor's immunesystem....Nighttime Asthma Squeezes School Attendance
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...into a living brain."Such an implant might restore function lost by disease or injury, Berger said."But the first step toward this is having a silicon chip live with andcommunicate with nerve cells," said Brinton, "and this is what we have begun todo." Brinton will present an overview of her work at the Unive...New Strategy May Succeed At Extending The Life Of Transplanted Kidneys
...ut, on average, a transplanted kidney continues to function foronly nine years. Now, doctors at the University...and Medical Center say anew strategy to extend the function of transplanted kidneys shows promise. In a study of 60 people who had received kidney transplants ...Sniffing Out The Promise Of Anti-Angiogenesis Therapy
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