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Popular Cancer Drug Connected To Often Fatal Brain Virus redOrbit Mon, 18 May 2009 14:07 PM PDT The 57-year-old lawyer in New York had handily completed the New York Times' Saturday crossword puzzle â€" the hardest of the week â€" for years. Local marine fighting own battle with aneurysm; benefit planned The Pantagraph Mon, 18 May 2009 14:06 PM PDT CLINTON -- There was a point when every time Dee Parson thought about her son, Nathan Florey, she cried. The 2003 graduate of Clinton High School was on his second tour of duty in Iraq in October last year. While lifting weights, he had a brain aneurysm and was flown to Germany for medical treatment. Rituximab linked to viral brain infection News-Medical-Net Mon, 18 May 2009 13:44 PM PDT The 57-year-old lawyer in New York had handily completed the New York Times' Saturday crossword puzzle - the hardest of the week - for years. But one Saturday morning, suddenly he couldn't retrieve the words to fill in the squares. Protein synaptotagmin-IV helps maintain an efficient brain News-Medical-Net Mon, 18 May 2009 13:44 PM PDT The instruction manual for maintaining an efficient brain may soon include a section on synaptotagmin-IV (Syt-IV), a protein known to influence learning and memory, thanks to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. Special protein helps maintain an efficient brain EurekAlert! Mon, 18 May 2009 13:31 PM PDT ( University of Wisconsin-Madison ) The instruction manual for maintaining an efficient brain maysoon include a section on synaptotagmin-IV (Syt-IV), a protein known to influence learning and memory, thanks to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. Popular cancer drug linked to often fatal brain virus EurekAlert! Mon, 18 May 2009 13:31 PM PDT ( Northwestern University ) A new study from Northwestern University links use of the popular cancer drug rituximab to a swiftly moving and often fatal viral brain infection called PML. Rituximab is the most important and widely used cancer drug for lymphoma. It is also approved for rheumatoid arthritis and is widely used off-label to treat multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosus and autoimmune ... Brain Organization Changes As We Enter Adulthood redOrbit Mon, 18 May 2009 13:16 PM PDT A new study finds that children’s brains are organized differently than those of adults. Specifically, the neural connections within a child’s brain are more a function of proximity to one another than is the case with adult brains.The research also showed that despite these differences, one of the most important core principals of adult brain organization is present in the brains of children as ... Computer model predicts how brain tumors grow and evolve News-Medical-Net Mon, 18 May 2009 12:59 PM PDT Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have developed a computational computer model of how brain tumors grow and evolve. North Shore LIJ surgeon leaves job YourNabe.com Mon, 18 May 2009 10:25 AM PDT The chairman of neurosurgery at the North Shoreâˆ'Long Island Jewish Health System is stepping down from his post following news reports that he refused to perform a brain operation on a woman who had been anesthetized for surgery because she was not his patient.

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