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Testing new MS theory as patients demand care Lake County News-Sun Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:04 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- Under intense pressure from patients, some U.S. doctors are cautiously testing a provocative theory that abnormal blood drainage from the brain may play a role in multiple sclerosis -- and that a surgical vein fix might help.If it pans out, the approach suggested by a researcher in Italy could mark a vast change for MS, a disabling neurological disease long blamed on an immune ... Former Rider High School Football Standout In a Drug Induced Coma KFDX Wichita Falls Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:01 AM PDT A former Rider High School football standout is fighting to survive after suffering a brain injury over the weekend during a team scrimmage. New science on overeating Straits Times Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:42 AM PDT PARIS - THE same molecular pathways that steer people into drug addiction also lie behind the craving to overeat, driving individuals into obesity, a new study suggests. The research, based on lab animals, bolsters long-standing suspicions that addiction to pleasure stems from overstimulus of a key reward mechanism in the brain, its authors say. Sponsored walk to remember Levi Wakefield Today Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:46 AM PDT A SPONSORED walk in memory of a boy who died from a brain tumour will help a young survivor of the condition he met while in hospital. Junk food 'as addictive as heroin and smoking' Daily Telegraph Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:55 PM PDT American researchers found junk food such as burgers and chips programmed a human brain into craving even more sugar, salt and fat laden food. Attractive, single and looking for dates..until brain tumour kills her Daily Mirror Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:28 PM PDT Lisa sells dinner out with herself to raise cash for cancer charity Coppell resident dies after skiing accident Coppell Gazette Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:55 PM PDT Taylor Storch, 13, of Coppell was declared brain dead on Monday after an accident while skiing Sunday on the intermediate Latigo trail at Beaver Creek Resort in Avon, Colo. Analysis shows no cancer cluster, but residents skeptical Flower Mound Leader Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:49 PM PDT A Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) analysis has found that the occurrence of leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and childhood brain cancers in two zip codes in Flower Mound is within the expected ranges for males and females. Biovail acquires Ampakine compounds from Cortex Pharma for respiratory depression treatment PharmaBiz Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:43 PM PDT Biovail Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Biovail Laboratories International SRL (BLS), has acquired certain Ampakine compounds, including associated intellectual property, from Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cortex) for use in the field of respiratory depression, a brain-mediated breathing disorder.

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