The promise of real-time health care
The Globe and Mail Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:57 PM PDT
Technology such as advanced brain scans and complex blood sugar sensors are paving the way for more nuanced medical treatment |
Drug treats brain tumors by cutting edema
Moldova.org Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:54 PM PDT
U.S. medical researchers say the positive effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in treating brain tumors appears to result from edema reduction.The Massachusetts General Hospital scientists said the reduction in size of the brain tumors, called glioblastomas, appears to result primarily from reduction of the swelling of brain tissue and not from any direct anti-tumor effect. Angiogenesis is the ... |
Multiple Sclerosis Associated with Lower Cancer Risk
Newswise Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:42 PM PDT
A new study shows that people with multiple sclerosis may be at a lower risk for cancer overall, but at a higher risk of developing certain types of cancer, such as brain tumors and bladder cancer. The study is published in the March 31, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. |
Gorilla Gets a Brain Scan [Slide Show]
Scientific American Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:41 PM PDT
About a year ago, a 42-year-old male gorilla named Fubo living in the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest suffered a seizure for no apparent reason. Concerned about his condition, zoo veterinarians put him on several seizure-controlling medications, which seemed to work, because he didn't have any more occurrences on the meds. But they were worried about the cause: Did Fubo have a brain tumor, a ... |
All Headlines
The Southampton Press & The East Hampton Press Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:54 PM PDT
An article in the March 26 issue of The East Hampton Press about a fund-raiser for Alex’s Promise Foundation, a charity named for Alex Koehne, a Pierson High School student who died in 2007, listed the wrong type of cancer that killed the student. It was a rare brain cancer. |
Help Zlata!
St. Petersburg Times Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:21 PM PDT
A donation campaign in support of two-year-old Zlata Chernoknizhnaya. At the end of 2006 it was discovered that Zlata was suffering from a malignant brain tumor. For a year and a half the girl underwent chemotherapy in hospital. But the tumor continued to grow. |
Fox: 'Parkinson's disease doesn't define me'
WSYR 9 Syracuse Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:04 PM PDT
Actor Michael J. Fox refuses to be hindered by his battle with Parkinson's disease - insisting he isn't defined by the illness. Fox was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease back in 1991. He compares his struggle with nursing an unruly child, telling talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, "It's like having a four-year-old climbing on you all the time and so whatever you're trying to do, you've ... |
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