Teen Football Player Recovering After Severe Brain Injury
WFTV 9 Orlando Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:51 AM PDT
TAMPA, Fla. -- There is some good news Monday morning regarding a Daytona Beach high school football player who had to have part of his skull removed after an injury during a game Friday night. |
Children With "Water On The Brain" Could Benefit From New Invention
Medical News Today Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:32 AM PDT
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists participated in a study with researchers from the University of Utah that could help find ways to improve shunt systems used to treat the neurological disorder hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain," the leading cause of brain surgery for children in the United States. Researchers studied the shunt systems under a variety of conditions by creating a ... |
Extensive Video Game Experience Readies Brain For More Challenging Hand-Eye Tasks
Medical News Today Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:30 AM PDT
New research from Canada suggests that extensive video-game experience prepares the brain for complex hand-eye coordination tasks beyond those tackled in game-playing; so next time you find yourself concerned that perhaps your teenager is wasting time playing video games, consider this: is the experience readying them for a future career as a laparoscopic surgeon? You can read how researchers ... |
Surgeons suggest TONES procedure as safe, effective option for treating brain diseases, traumatic injuries
News-Medical-Net Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:10 AM PDT
Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and University of Washington Medical Center have determined that transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery is a safe and effective option for treating a variety of advanced brain diseases and traumatic injuries. This groundbreaking minimally invasive surgery is performed through the eye socket, thus eliminating the removal of the ... |
Stephen Barrie, ND: Your Fat Cells Control Your Brain
The Huffington Post Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:50 AM PDT
Instead of sitting idly by, waiting for a famine or a jog, fat cells continuously send dozens of potent chemical signals to tissues throughout the body, including the brain and other organs. |
JAMA issue unveils genetic signature of brain cancer
News-Medical-Net Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:40 AM PDT
A pair of studies in the July 15 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) spell out how much closer science has come to unraveling the genetic signature of brain cancer, according to a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). |
Congress Considers Setting Standards To Reduce Football Concussions
Medical News Today Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:18 AM PDT
NPR: "A college player who recently committed suicide had a degenerative brain disease normally linked to much older players. It's prompting a new round of questions about safety in the dangerous game that Americans love. ... [Chronic traumatic encephalopathy] is the football concussion 'disease of the moment.' In the past couple of years, Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic ... |
Surgeons use cold to suspend life
BBC Radio 1 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:53 AM PDT
Heart surgeons are using extreme cooling to allow them to stop a patient's heart long enough to carry out surgery and then revive them. "The body is essentially in true, real-life, suspended animation, with no pulse, no blood pressure, no signs of brain activity," explains Dr John Elefteriades. |
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