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Help Zlata! St. Petersburg Times Mon, 25 May 2009 13:55 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. Webcasting surgeries to woo patients The Times of India Mon, 25 May 2009 13:31 PM PDT The point of Shila Renee Mullins's brain surgery was to remove a malignant tumor threatening to paralyze her left side. But Methodist University Hospital in Memphis also saw an opportunity to promote the hospital to prospective patients. Webcast Your Brain Surgery? Hospitals See Marketing Tool New York Times Mon, 25 May 2009 12:27 PM PDT Hospitals are using Twitter from operating rooms, showing surgery on YouTube and having patients blog about their procedures, but ethics and privacy questions linger. Cancer drug's rare but deadly threat Chicago Sun-Times Mon, 25 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT Rituximab -- a breakthrough cancer drug used to treat lymphoma -- has been linked to dozens of cases of a rare, often-deadly brain infection, researchers have found. Doctors have identified 57 people who developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalitis, or PML, after being on the cancer drug between 1997 and 2008, according to a report in the journal Blood. Twenty-two of those cases had ... Indian-American helps develop software for early Alzhemier diagnosis The Times of India Mon, 25 May 2009 10:57 AM PDT NEW YORK: Analysis of the brain's MRI studies, combined with a new software programme, developed by a team led by an Indian American, may permit clinicians to track and diagnose Alzheimer's disease at an early stage.

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