NASA's electronic nose may provide neurosurgeons with a new weapon against brain cancer
April 30, 2009 An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells. The results of the pilot study open up new...Jefferson neurosurgeons using new liquid treatment for wide-neck brain aneurysm
(PHILADELPHIA) Neurological surgeons at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience are among the first surgeons in the United States using an FDA-approved liquid system for treating wide-necked brain aneurysms, which could eventually replace current treatments. Principal investigator Erol Veznedaroglu...Three Eminent Neurosurgeons To Examine Shahabuddin
The Patna High Court has order three neuro-surgeons to examine RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan jail and report to the court in three weeks. //The MP has repeatedly requested the court to allow doctors to examine his spinal problem and give appropriate treatment. Justice Chandramauli Kum...Acute Shortage Of Neurosurgeons In India: One Surgeon For Every 1 Million!
India has a severe shortfall of neurosurgeons with only one surgeon for every one million population. There is hence a greater need to build up trained manpower in the country. This is comparatively lower when compared to the situation in US and Japan where the ratio is 100,000 // and 6000 for ever...National Insurance Carriers Now Cover Artificial Cervical Disc Surgery
... offers cervical artificial disc surgery from some of the most well-trained neurosurgeons in the country. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) July 13, 200... unanimously approved by the Food and Drug Administration in July 2007 . neurosurgeons at CINN are among the most well-trained surgeons in the country in performi...Fears About Pregnancy and cats Should not stop Those who want to Adopt a cat
...c acid as it can cause a deficiency she added. About Veterinary Neuro Services: Dr. Anne Chauvet, one of about 150 veterinary neurologists and neurosurgeons in North America, is the founder of Veterinary Neuro Services in Sarasota, Fla. Veterinary Neuro Services treats brain, spinal cord and neuromuscular...Seattle's Swedish Cancer Institute First in U.S. to Treat Cancer Patient with Elekta VMAT
...isit http://www.elekta.com/vmat . About Elekta Elekta is an international medical technology group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state-of-the-art tools to fight serious disease. Elekta provides advanced clinical solutions, comprehensive ...IBA and Elekta Initiate Global Particle Therapy Program at ASTRO
...site: http://www.iba-worldwide.com . About Elekta Elekta is an international medical technology group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state of the art tools to fight serious disease. Elekta provides advanced clinical solutions, comprehensive m...Elekta Announces Clinical Start-Up of New Leksell Gamma Knife(R) Perfexion(TM) at UPMC
...ksell Gamma Knife Perfexion. "Dr. Douglas Kondziolka and I are experienced neurosurgeons who have worked with the Leksell Gamma Knife in thousands of patients. We h...onal medical technology group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state-of-the-art tools to fight ser...PoleStar N20 Intra-operative MRI System
Description:...romise Designed to provide unprecedented patient access Navigation without registration Discover why the PoleStar N20 is changing the way neurosurgeons think about intra-operative imaging. ...Ad-Tech/Wyler Subdural Strip & Grid Electrodes
Description:... Ad-Techs Subdural Electrodes feature exceptional quality and design to provide you with the latest advances in seizure recording technology. neurosurgeons worldwide consider these electrodes to be the thinnest and most flexible available. Our electrodes come in many useful standard configurations ranging...Elderly spinal cord injuries increase five-fold in 30 years, Jefferson neurosurgeons find
The number of spinal cord injuries among senior citizens (age 70 and above) has increased five times in the past 30 years, as compared with younger spinal cord injury patients, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson's Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Val...Reading the brain without poking it
...hout having to put the electrodes into the brain," says Bradley Greger, an assistant professor of bioengineering and coauthor of the study. "That lets neurosurgeons put this device under the skull but over brain areas where it would be risky to place penetrating electrodes: areas that control speech, memory and ot...Statins may treat blood vessel disorder that can lead to fatal strokes
...re Medicine online. "Brain surgery or radiation treatment has been the only option for CCM patients. But because of the risks in those operations, neurosurgeons are reluctant to perform them unless the patient is in immediate danger," Li said. "Our study proposes a potential strategy for a simple drug therapy ...Antimicrobial sutures reduce infections in brain shunt surgery, study finds
...ich served as the control group. A total of 84 shunt procedures were performed over 21 months. All procedures were performed by one of two pediatric neurosurgeons at Women & Children's Hospital of Kaleida Health in Buffalo. At the trial's end, the shunt infection rate in the study group was 4.3 percent (2 of ...'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble
...trating that it is not only nerve signals from the muscles as feedback that drive the diseased 5-Hz rhythm in the brain. Headed by Prof. Volker Sturm, neurosurgeons in Cologne implanted electrodes in patients for the measurements, and scientists in Saratov, Russia, recalculated the obtained data together with scie...New fMRI technology making brain tumor surgery safer
...ognition, and mobility centers of the brain, allow neurosurgeons to remove tumors to the greatest extent possible w...ence Institute. “It has significantly affected how neurosurgeons plan to do neurosurgery and how much tumor they ca...llence located at University Hospital and UC. neurosurgeons have never simply guessed at where critical areas ...Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
... Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, performed their research on the boy who had the grids implanted so that neurologists and neurosurgeons can find the area in the brain serving as the focus for an epileptic seizure, with hopes of removing it to avoid future seizures. To do this, the boy ...Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity
...new study by neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and neurosurgeons and neurologists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) is beginning to answer that que...ect is to use high-gamma waves to produce a finer map of the brain to guide neurosurgeons during brain surgery and potentially to use these same high frequency oscil...Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function
...tem can contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions in patients who have undergone a craniotomy by providing neurologists and neurosurgeons a new resource to detect, transmit and analyze neural activity. Cyberkinetics' BrainGate TM System is being designed to give severely paralyzed i...Blackrock Microsystems Obtains Expanded 510(k) to Market NeuroPort System
...G), electrocardiography (ECG), electrooculography (EOG) and Evoked Potential (EP). The NeuroPort System provides neuroscientists, neurologists and neurosurgeons an innovative and unequalled resource to detect, transmit and analyze brain activity in a wide range of intra-operative, outpatient and research setti...OmniGuide Introduces The BeamPath Neuro(TM): A CO2 Laser Fiber for Brain And Spine Surgery
...a result, for the past twenty years, CO2 lasers have rarely been used in neurosurgery. With the introduction of the BeamPath NEURO flexible CO2 laser, neurosurgeons now have the ability to perform precise dissection, cutting, debulking, and microvascular coagulation using a hand-held, no-touch instrument. "Neuro...CMS, Inc., an Elekta Company, Announces Commercial Availability of Focal4D(TM)
...embers of the treatment team more effective in providing patient care. CMS is part of the Elekta Group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state of the art tools to fight cancer and brain disorders. With more than 2,500 employees globally, Elekta'...AANS/CNS and BrainLAB Announce Winner of 2008 International Research Fellowship
...rted in 2006, the fellowship enables international neurosurgeons or graduating residents from outside the United St...isciplines, and to the special needs of our fellow neurosurgeons throughout the world and at every stage of their professional lives. Members of the CNS include neurosurgeons in-training, board-eligible, and board certified p...IMPAC Medical Systems Announces 2008 Laboratory Professionals of the Year
...overall communication, process efficiency, and quality patient care. IMPAC is part of the Elekta Group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state of the art tools to fight cancer and brain disorders. With more than 2,000 employees globally, Elekta'...Elekta Chosen to Deliver Sophisticated Brain Mapping Technology to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee
...vice available on the market today. About Elekta Elekta is an international medical technology group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state of the art tools to fight serious disease. Elekta provides advanced clinical solutions, comprehensive ...IMPAC Medical Systems and Aperio to Develop Integrated Solution for Anatomic Pathology
...overall communication, process efficiency, and quality patient care. IMPAC is part of the Elekta Group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state of the art tools to fight cancer and brain disorders. With more than 2,000 employees globally, Elekta'...