Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
According to LSU Assistant Professor of Geography and Anthropology and Louisiana State Climatologist Barry Keim, Hurricane Season 2004 beat the averages. ... It also kept LSU experts on their toes. ... There were 15 named storms, eight of which became hurricanes. Six of those fell into the intense/severe category. Keim said that 10 named storms and six hurricanes is considered average. Two inten...LSUHSC neurosurgical team discovers novel therapy for intractable hiccups
New Orleans--Dr. Bryan R. Payne, and Dr. Robert Tiel, neurosurgeons at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have discovered a new approach to treating medically intractable hiccups. They implanted a Vagus Nerve Stimulator in a Texas man to stop the hiccups which have severely disrupted Shane Shafer's life following a stroke he had two years ago. This is the first reported case of its kind. W...LSUHSC microsurgeon performs 1st ever eyelid reattachment
New OrleansLouisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans will hold a press conference on Monday, April 26, 2004 at 11:30 a.m. (CDT) to announce that Dr. Kamran Khoobehi, a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, has made medical history by reattaching the right upper eyelid that had been ripped off as...... BATON ROUGE -- LSU is home to one of the largest groups of hurricane experts in the nation. These researchers, who are specialists in a variety of fields, are studying all aspects of the dangerous storms to create a comprehensive hurricane-research effort that will benefit the citizens of Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast region.... ... The experts and the LSU departments in which they wo...LSU scientist says new drug will save brain cells attacked by neurological injury or disease
.NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 24 - A new drug that may prevent the death of brain cells.endangered by Alzheimer's disease, head injury, stroke or epilepsy was described.here today by Nicolas G. Bazan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Neuroscience Center.of Excellence at Louisiana State University. He presented his findings at the.national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest.sc...