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Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...from a study of a new drug for children with acute brain tumors. The drug fotemustine, when delivered intra...n to help shrink solid tumors, including cancerous brain tumors. Studies in adults with brain tumors showed fotemustine was at least partially effective in a...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...from a study of a new drug for children with acute brain tumors. The drug fotemustine, when delivered intra...n to help shrink solid tumors, including cancerous brain tumors. Studies in adults with brain tumors showed fotemustine was at least partially effective in a...

Brain changes observed in people with sleep apnoea

Researchers in University of Boston observe that brain imaging sheds new light on the possible causes of ...e and stroke. Researchers in the US have studied brain images from a group of 20 patients with sleep apnoea, comparing them with those from 20 healthy indi...

Genetic indicates memory

...s. They looked at genes in the hippocampus area, a brain region known to be important in learning and memor...ocess. By injecting FGF-18 directly into the rat's brain they were able to increase the amount of learning. This research is still too early to know how it ...

Perceived stress decreases vaccine response

...ct them from an outbreak of this potentially fatal brain infection. So they form an ideal population for studying the effects of stress on immune response. Researchers at the University of Birmingham asked a group of students about their mental wellbeing and took blood samples to measure antibody levels...

Colon cancer linked with common virus

... systems it has been known to increase the risk of brain cancer and other diseases of the nervous system. Now researchers at Temple University in the US have found DNA from the JC virus in 20 out of 26 colon cancer samples tested. They also find proteins that the virus produces which seem to play a role ...

Memories change with age

...archers now want to study the possible age-related brain differences which may be linked to this evolution of memory....

Short stature -a problem

...ents. "One is that growth hormone therapy boosts brain chemicals and neurotransmitters that did not work as well as they would have if hormone secretion had been normal." Behaviour problems in short children improved quickly with six months of hormone replacement therapy, Dr Beens said, but that could no...

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

... a clot that blocks the blood vessel supplying the brain with blood was confirmed with 378 participants, 105 were confirmed as hemorrhagic stroke, caused by a leaky blood vessel that bleeds into the brain, and the rest could not be classified from the data available. Risk of ischemic stroke was found to b...

Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

...mption of only a sweet food or coffee or both. The brain is forced to depend on stored fat for functioning ...unger pangs temporarily, but do very little to aid brain function. So what makes up a healthy breakfast? One that supplies a quarter to one third of the day'...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...he suggested that an MRI could assess the level of brain damage and confirm a stroke. Dr. Ferriero said tha...ung could help manage it effectively as children's brain are very plastic, which means they have a great capacity to learn to compensate for the damage....

New Cholesterol gene linked to Alzheimer's

...her variation. These patients also had the highest brain levels of beta amyloid. Autopsies of patients with...ggest that inhibiting cholesterol breakdown in the brain might represent a viable treatment for Alzheimer's....

Migraine & Juvenile stroke could be associated

...ients who were suffering from arterial dissection, brain haemorrhage, cranial sinus// thrombosis, lacunar stroke or migrainous infarction. The investigators found that, for the total population, migraine was a significant risk factor for juvenile stroke, with an odds ratio of 2.11. For the subgroups - bel...

Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage

... issue of the Journal of Neuroscience suggest that brain damage occurred in children who had used common an...ed electrical activity in the rats' hippocampus, a brain structure that plays an important role in learning and memory. The rats were tested in several kinds...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

...s implied often that using marijuana changes one's brain or makes one crave for other drugs, the study did not show how marijuana could lead to harder drugs. He also said that there are a number of other potential mechanisms, including access to drugs, willingness to break the law and likelihood of engagin...

Stroke victims have new hope with activated protein C

...ted the study on mice found that APC could protect brain cells from the secondary damage associated with ischemic stroke by preventing apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death. The study has shown// that APC reduced apoptosis by 65 per cent and neurological deficits by 91 per cent when given to mice foll...

Mental retardation linked to brain protein

...n Health and Science University, which said that a brain protein called WAVE-1 may play a key role in menta.... WAVE-1 is a protein that is found throughout the brain and plays an important role in brain cell communication. The research was carried out on mice that w...

New ways to help children with trauma

...thermia as a treatment for children with traumatic brain injury. Hypothermia treatment has been shown to be... effectiveness in treating children with traumatic brain injuries has not yet been studied. Hypothermia decreases inflammation, excitotoxicity (excessive neu...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...have demonstrated the effect of the hormone on the brain and have shown that the hormone activated the spec...g when introduced to specialized weight regulating brain cells called neuropeptide Y neurons. Lead author Michael Cowley, Ph.D., added that past// research h...

New hope for spinal cord injury victims

...cranial nerve (the nerve leading directly from the brain to the nasal cavity). Researchers have created a 'cell line' of OECs in the laboratory, which divides indefinitely, forming a source of cells for repair of spinal cord injury. These OECs were then introduced in rats which had had spinal cord injury....

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