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Saket Hospital to get Multi-speciality Facilities from Max Healthcare

...umours that are buried deep or positioned near the spinal cord (and) are difficult to remove,' said A.N. Jha, director neurosurgery Max Super Speciality Hospital. Positioning itself initially as the leading hospital group in the national capital region, Max Healthcare will have invested Rs.6.25 billion wi...

Study Aims At The Immune System In Patients With Lou Gehrig's Disease

...the upper and lower motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord which stimulate skeletal muscle movement. As more motor neurons die, muscle weakness gets progressively worse. An estimated 30,000 people throughout the U.S. have ALS, and 8,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Source: Neswise...

Diagnosing Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

...phy (CT), 45% received lumbar puncture (LP, i.e. a spinal tap), 83% had either CT and/or LP, and 6.4% had a final diagnosis of SAH. By using 4 simple clinical observations, the authors were able to predict whether a patient was at high risk for SAH. For example, of those who arrived by ambulance, 57% were...

'Oncomodulin'- Path To Nerve Regeneration

...rve damage diseases like glaucoma, tumors, trauma, spinal cord injury and even stroke. Yuqin yin,MD, PhD an...sabling and untreatable diseases like glaucoma and spinal cord injury. ...

Novel Technique To Revolutionize Treatment Of Spinal Tumors

...at could treat fractured vertebrae associated with spinal tumors has been developed by a radiologist// at th...o clinician Bassem Georgy, M.D., partially removed spinal tumors from 28 patients before repairing the spine with vertebroplasty – a procedure to cement and s...

High Levels Of Folic Acid May Increase The Chances Of Twins After IVF

... not close properly. Spina bifida, a defect of the spinal column, is the most common of them....

Australian Government To Fund For A Stem cell Research Center

...adult stem cell research. The center will focus on spinal and brain disorders including Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and motor neuron disease. Mr. Abbott also said that the center’s work would complement the existing national stem cell center in Melbourne. According to the current laws, scientists a...

Stem Cell Technology Gives Hope in Spinal Cord Injuries

...to prevent infection during any injury including a spinal cord injury. However this mechanism can have disastrous consequences on the spinal cord because scars inhibit nerve-fiber regeneration thereby leading to paralysis and other problems....

Molecular Basis Of ALS Found

... by degeneration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. The cause and development (pathogenesis) of ...earchers isolated and examined aggregates from the spinal cord of several ALS-model mice. In the diseased mice the scientists found intermolecular disulfide b...

Rare Bone Disease Traced To Faulty FOP Gene

... clues about effective treatment of head injuries, spinal trauma and sports injuries. The researchers at Penn's Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders were involved in 15 years of hard work to analyze the genetic constitution of the families associated with the disease. Mutation in a single gene...

Cholesterol Plays An Important Role In Finger and Toe Development

...n a number of birth defects such as deformities of spinal cord and brain (more specifically, holoprosencepha...Sonic hedgehog in the development of the brain and spinal cord. With our improved understanding of the wide-ranging actions of Sonic hedgehog and developmen...

Progression Of ALS May Be Prevented By A High Caloric Diet

...an adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder in which spinal and cortical motor neurons die causing relentlessly progressive weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles through the body. "ALS is such a devastating disease for those individuals diagnosed with the disorder," said Giulio Maria Pasinetti, M.D., Ph....

Transplantation Results in CJD Transfer

...t is the outermost membrane covering the brain and spinal cord, which is used by surgeons to repair the skull and spine and to reinforce tendons and ligaments. Richard Knight and his colleagues of the National CJD Surveillance Unit at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, published the findings in the Jour...

Foetuses Cant Feel Pain Says A Leading Psychologist

...triggers that set of alarms. He explained that the spinal cord is like the electrical wiring between a trigger and the alarm. Scientists have previously suggested that the minimum level of anatomical development for pain is the completion of the "spinothalamic" muscular link from the spine to the thalamus,...

Are Near death Experience Really Just A Dream

...s the lower part of the brain that attaches to the spinal cord and controls most basic life functions. He hopes to further investigate near death experiences on people who have had out-of-body experiences independent of any trauma. Nelson doesn't rule out the possibility that other psychological or spiritu...

Hope After Spinal Cord Injuries

...provide a ray of hope for a cure for patients with spinal cord injury// (SCI). Virtually every SCT patient foresees a bleak future with severe osteoporosis and muscle atrophy continually haunting him or her. Loss of bone mineral density up to the extent of 30 percent has often been demonstrated making the...

Researchers Create Bladder In The Lab

...he study were suffering from a birth defect called spinal myelomeningocele, which means that the spines have not been properly fused after birth. This meant that the protruding nerves used to impinge on the bladder thus weakening it and leading to incontinence. The usual treatment in such cases in reconstru...

WHO: Lives At Risk In Sudan As Diseases Soar, Call for Funding

...mmation of the coverings surrounding the brain and spinal cord. At least 1, 335 people have been feared infected with meningitis that commonly spread through close contact with an infected person, and acts such as sneezing and coughing. An acute outbreak of diarrhoea (watery diarrhoea) has claimed the liv...

JRRD Focuses On Issues Such As Spinal Cord Injury and Prosthetics

...lopment (JRRD) mainly analyses articles related to spinal cord injury, bone mineral density, women's // sexu...veterans who reported chronic pain associated with spinal cord injury the author of the study said that 76 % of participants (spinal cord injury) reported chr...

Research demystifies treatment by manipulation of spine by chiropractors in the UK

...uded that there is little evidence to suggest that spinal manipulation is effective for treating any medical...are of the opinion, "There is little evidence that spinal manipulation is effective in the treatment of any medical condition. The findings are of concern bec...

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