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Sleep, snoring....stroke

...lept less. Adnan Qureshi, assistant professor of neurosurgery affiliated with the University of Buffalo's Toshiba Stroke Research Centre and the lead author on the study, said that certain sleep characteristics - such as sleeping for more than eight hours, the tendency to fall asleep during the day and the tend...

A drug in vogue to deccelerate the course of Alzheimer's

...e in food, noted Paula Bickford, PhD, professor of neurosurgery at the University of South Florida, Tampa. ...

Conjoined Indian Twins See Hope On The Horizon

... at Apollo. Benjamin Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins in the United States is the lead surgeon in this complicated operation that starts with the creation of a virtual 3-D image of the twins. The final step would be a kidney transplant to the twin without any kidneys. "We are not rush...

Acute Shortage Of Neurosurgeons In India: One Surgeon For Every 1 Million!

...f patients. More than 300 children are waiting for neurosurgery at the AIIMS. Every year around 20,000 new cases...dded to the long list of people in India requiring neurosurgery but only about 100 are treated in the eight major neuro centres in the country. There is also a majo...

French Doctors Successfully Separate Twins Joined At Spine

...and Canada. Dr Gabriel Lena, head of the pediatric neurosurgery division of the La Timone hospital said that at the moment, the twins looked good, "As soon as they woke up on the operating table, the twins moved their legs and their feet. Today, their prognosis is good." The twins were born prematurely and were ...

New Device Developed For Treating Cervical Spondylitis

..., a young associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at King George's Medical University (KGMU), has developed a unique vertebral drill that he says will save patients from the complicated and painful procedures practised so far. The central commerce ministry has awarded a patent for the instrument, ...

Treat Spondylitis With Keyhole Surgery

..., a young associate professor in the department of neurosurgery at King George's Medical University (KGMU), has developed a vertebral drill that he says will save patients from the complicated and painful open gold standard procedures. The central commerce ministry has awarded a patent for the instrument, which ...

Stem Cell Technology Gives Hope in Spinal Cord Injuries

... author Dr. Stephen Davies, assistant professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston the rats were given immature immune system support cells called astrocytes and this resulted in a 40-percent rise in nerve-fiber growth at the site of the injury in only eight days. The results of the resear...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

...ving Illinois. For the specialties most affected - neurosurgery and obstetrics and gynecology - the malpractice premiums have gone sky high," Swaminathan told IANS. "Moreover, Medicare reimbursements are a concern. So, as a physician, you are hit with a triple whammy - the overheads are going up, malpractice ins...

Indian American Doctor Wants Healthcare Reforms

...ving Illinois. For the specialties most affected - neurosurgery and obstetrics and gynecology - the malpractice premiums have gone sky high," Swaminathan told IANS. "Moreover, Medicare reimbursements are a concern. So, as a physician, you are hit with a triple whammy - the overheads are going up, malpractice in...

New Brain Tumor Vaccine Developed By US Scientists

...(GBM), said Amy Heimberger, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas. Trial results showed that the vaccine significantly delays the progression of tumours until the cancer finds a new way to grow. A larger trial of the vaccine, which works by targeting a protein thought to dr...

Shortage Of Faculty Members At AIIMS

... In March, three of AIIMS' top doctors - head of neurosurgery V.S. Mehta, professor of medicine Anoop Misra and head of surgery S.N. Mehta had left to join private hospitals. --Edited IANS...

Saket Hospital to get Multi-speciality Facilities from Max Healthcare

...ffer 450 bed facility along with the most advanced neurosurgery department equipped with Asia's the first Brain Su...isclosed Singh. On the new facility, he said the neurosurgery department and Brian Suite, which has a magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis tool designed for hel...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

...on, M.D., head of cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery at U-M who performs both open-cranial microsurgery...an ever,” says Thompson, an associate professor of neurosurgery who directs the U-M Neurovascular Program. “An example is the use of stents, which bolster the coils...

Alternative to the Conventional Seizure Treatment

...reatment options include a variety of medications, neurosurgery that involves removing a small portion of the brain responsible for the seizures, and vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). Despite the introduction of multiple new antiepileptic drugs since the 1990s, as many as one million individuals with epilepsy acro...

Child-Proof: Brain Mapping Safer for Children than Previously Thought

...ssel-and thus offer a less-invasive alternative to neurosurgery for certain conditions. In some cases, diagnosis is possible with noninvasive imaging tests such as CT scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but these tests can give false-positive or false-negative results, meaning they would diagnose a probl...

LA County gives Approval for Reform Plan for King-Drew Medical Center

...tients who need special care such as pediatrics or neurosurgery would have to go to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, which is about 10 miles away. The plan requires a public hearing, as well as approval by the state and federal governments. On Nov 6 a public hearing has been scheduled downtown. NL...

University Evaluates New Device To Treat Brain Tumors

...said Dr. Herbert Engelhard, associate professor of neurosurgery and site investigator for the trial at UIC. Following a baseline MRI to determine the location of the tumor, several electrodes are placed on the patient's shaved head. The electrodes are connected to a medical device with alternating electric fie...

Stem Cell Activity Deciphered in the Aging Brain

... investigator Ashok K. Shetty, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery at Duke University Medical Center and medical research scientist at Durham VA Medical Center. Results of the study appear online in the journal Neurobiology of Aging. The National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs funde...

Genetic Tests to Reveal ‘substance Abuse’ Tendencis

...said Anup Madan, UI adjunct assistant professor of neurosurgery and an assistant professor at the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle. "Transcription profiling involves looking at all the genes -- nearly 30,000 of them -- at one time. We label all the expressed genes by fluorescent tags, and changes in fluo...

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