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Former US swim coach passes away The Star Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:51 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: Former US Olympic head swim coach Richard Quick died on Wednesday, aged 66, after a six-month battle with brain cancer. Dreyer still critical, in induced coma Sonoma Index-Tribune Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:49 PM PDT Brad Dreyer, the 20-year-old skateboarder injured in a collision with a motorcycle on Tuesday, May 26, remains in critical condition at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, but a Sunday operation to reduce mounting pressure on his brain appears to have been successful according to his father, Jeff Dreyer. Researchers discover how prion protein damages brain cells News-Medical-Net Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:47 PM PDT Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have gained a major insight into how the rogue protein responsible for mad cow disease and related neurological illnesses destroys healthy brain tissue. Can lowering body temperature prevent brain damage in children? TurkishPress.com Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:33 PM PDT ANN ARBOR, Mich. - In the first large-scale study of its kind, researchers at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and the University of Utah will lead a multi-center study to investigate whether hypothermiaâ€"lowering body temperatureâ€"can prevent or reduce brain damage in children deprived of oxygen after a cardiac arrest. Programs help exercise the brain as it ages The Pantagraph Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:05 PM PDT DALLAS -- Eighty-seven-year old Dorothy Dagen sat beaming in her very first graduation cap and gown. Mourning a Legend, Richard Quick Passes Away WTVM 9 Columbus Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:53 PM PDT The Auburn University family is mourning a great loss. Perhaps the best swim coach in history, Auburn's Richard Quick, passed away last night from complications of an inoperable brain tumor. NIH funds Einstein center to target HIV-related brain disease EurekAlert! Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:13 PM PDT ( Albert Einstein College of Medicine ) The National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year, $3-million grant to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University to establish a research center to study the neurological complications that afflict people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Community rallies around young stroke victim Plant City Courier & Tribune Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:13 PM PDT As a family struggles to give comfort and care to a 9-year-old boy who is recovering from brain surgery, others in the community are lending a helping hand.

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