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Consensus on organ transplants The Japan Times Tue, 26 May 2009 13:59 PM PDT The Diet resumed deliberations April 21 on revising the Organ Transplant Law. Parliamentary moves on the issue have been virtually dormant for three years. The deliberations have suddenly gained momentum and four revision proposals have surfaced. The current law, which was enacted in June 1997 after more than 10 years of public debate, allows organ transplants from a brain-dead person only if he ... Committing single events to memory: Scientists discover how the brain remembers one-time experiences PhysOrg Tue, 26 May 2009 13:52 PM PDT (PhysOrg.com) -- Single events account for many of our memories - a marriage proposal, a wedding toast, a baby's birth. Until a recent UC Irvine discovery, scientists knew little about what happens inside your brain that allows you to remember such events. Scientists Reaching Consensus On How Brain Processes Speech redOrbit Tue, 26 May 2009 13:17 PM PDT Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the concepts a decade ago and who has now published a review article confirming the theory.In the June issue of Nature Neuroscience, the investigator, Josef Rauschecker, PhD, and his co-author, ... Hope bundled in benefit for Emma Waconia Patriot Tue, 26 May 2009 13:11 PM PDT Seven-year-old Emma Fogarty of Waconia is a fighter. The fact that she’s still alive after being diagnosed Jan. 27, 2009 with a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) brain tumor, located on her brainstem, is proof that the power of positive thinking and prayer can go a long way. 'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest PhysOrg Tue, 26 May 2009 12:53 PM PDT Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain. HOPE, LOVE BEFORE & AFTER The Daily Iberian Tue, 26 May 2009 12:06 PM PDT Not even an inoperable brain stem tumor can stop Danielle LeCompte from graduating Thursday from third grade at St. Edward School. 50-mile paddle aims to help teen who has cancer Orange County Register Tue, 26 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT Mike Fisher, diagnosed with brain cancer, will do the last leg of the paddle from Malibu Mobile family, doctor call girl's recovery a 'miracle' after brain damage, grand mal seizures Mobile Press-Register Tue, 26 May 2009 11:09 AM PDT (Jo Anne McKnight/Correspondent)Therapist Brenda Dunlap reads to Caitlyn Black as Caitlyn's grandmother, Sonya Humphries, looks on. MOBILE, Ala. -- Two-year-old Caitlyn Black was not expected to walk or talk, see or hear. She was not supposed to run or play,... RNAi Startup SanoGene Moves Brain Cancer Drug into IND-Enabling Studies GenomeWeb News Tue, 26 May 2009 11:03 AM PDT Having recently appointed the first two members of its scientific advisory board, RNAi therapeutics startup SanoGene has begun studies to support an investigational new drug application for its lead drug candidate, a company official told RNAi News last week. One fine day for Gavilan graduates The Gilroy Dispatch Tue, 26 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT James Nwaizugbu hugs fellow registered nurse graduate Elizabeth Von Urff and Douglass Baker, center, and Gerardo Escamilla celebrate at the end of the ceremony at Gavilan College Friday. Photo by: Lora Schraft, Staff Photographer Gilroy Jessica Solorio's doctors didn't see this day coming. Following surgery to have a brain tumor removed at the age of 13, Solorio was told by the people who saved ...

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