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Thursday, 17 May 2012
Susan E Mackinnon (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA) and colleagues have reported the first case of restoration of some hand function (finger and thumb flexion) in a quadriplegic patient utilising nerve transfers after cervical spinal cord injury. [read more]
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
A recently published study reports that delayed ipsilateral parenchymal haemorrhage may occur after the treatment of anterior circulation aneurysms with flow diverters. The study was published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology. [read more]
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
AxioMed Spine has received CE mark approval for its Freedom Cervical Disc, an elastomeric total spinal disc replacement device. [read more]
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Friday, 11 May 2012
The draft guidance recommends that Botox injections should be stopped if the person’s headaches have not improved enough after two treatment cycles, or if the person’s “headache days” have reduced to fewer than 15 days a month over three consecutive months. [read more]
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012
An American Heart Association expert committee has not found conclusive scientific evidence that periodontal disease causes or increases the rates of cardiovascular diseases. The scientific statement has been published in Circulation. [read more]
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Friday, 27 Apr 2012
Laurent Pierot and colleagues, on behalf of the CLARITY investigators, reported that midterm anatomic results and evolution of aneurysm occlusion were not different in patients with ruptured aneurysms who were treated with Guglielmi Detachable Coils (GDC) when compared to those treated with Matrix coils. [read more]
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Friday, 27 Apr 2012
Phase three results of the REFLEXION clinical trial have shown that people who received injections of the interferon beta-1a drug soon after their first signs of possible multiple sclerosis were less likely to progress to clinically definite multiple sclerosis than people who switched to interferon beta-1a from placebo. [read more]
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Friday, 27 Apr 2012
A Swedish study of 74,961 adults with 10 years of follow-up has shown that those who ate low-fat dairy foods had a 12% lower risk of stroke and a 13% lower risk of ischaemic stroke than those who ate high-fat dairy foods. [read more]
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Friday, 27 Apr 2012
The intestinal gel contains levodopa and carbidopa and is infused through a portable pump connected to a tube implanted in the intestine, similar to a feeding tube. [read more]
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Thursday, 26 Apr 2012
Some patients with certain types of atrial fibrillation who are taken off anti-clotting medication face a high risk of stroke or blood clotting within a month, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association’s Emerging Science Series webinar. [read more]
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