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Kennedy staff: The senator will return to DC
Cape Cod Times Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:36 AM PST
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s staff is denying a gossip item in the Boston Herald today that said his battle with brain cancer is in its “final round” and that he would not return to the US Senate.

FDA Approves Humanitarian Device Exemption For Deep Brain Stimulator For Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Medical News Today Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:08 AM PST
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a humanitarian device exemption for the first implantable device that delivers intermittent electrical therapy deep within the brain to suppress the symptoms associated with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The U.S.

How Microscopic Changes To Brain Cause Schizophrenic Behavior In Mice
Medical News Today Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:11 AM PST
The findings are published in an Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We found several microscopic pathologies and behavioral traits that are hallmarks of schizophrenia, says Ulrich Mueller, Ph.D., a professor at Scripps Research who was senior author of the study.

After A Stroke Women Are Less Likely To Receive Critical Care, MSU Researchers Find
Medical News Today Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:11 AM PST
Women are 30 percent less likely than men to receive a critical clot-busting drug than can limit brain damage after a stroke, according to a Michigan State University study. The study findings were presented Feb. 19 in San Diego at the International Stroke Conference, organized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

Regrets over brain damage blunder
Express and Star Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:10 AM PST
The body which oversees healthcare in the region has said it “deeply regrets” the injuries suffered by a Tipton man who was left brain damaged after his brain was starved of oxygen during his birth. Christopher James Langford, now 21, was left with acute cerebral palsy and quadraplegia … [visit site to read more]

FDA Advises Public of Serious Adverse Event with Psoriasis Drug Raptiva
Kansas City InfoZine Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:09 AM PST
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory concerning three confirmed, and one possible report of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare brain infection, in patients using the psoriasis drug Raptiva (efalizumab).




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