Neurology

Dartmouth Board of Trustees, administration discuss College's financial strategy

At their fall-term meeting in Hanover Nov. 7-8, the Trustees of Dartmouth College reviewed the institution's current and anticipated financial situation in detail with administrators and discussed preliminary plans for keeping...

Sun Health and Power3 Medical to Present Results of NuroPro(R) Alzheimer's Blood Test Clinical...

HOUSTON----Power3 Medical Products, Inc. announced today that Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, Chief Medical-Scientific Officer of Sun Health and Dr. Ira L. Goldknopf, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Power3, have jointly submitted...

Notice to Readers: National Epilepsy Awareness Month --- November 2008

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Epilepsy, which currently affects approximately 2.5 million persons in the United States, is characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures . To improve the health care and...

St. Mary's Pearl machine helps treat stroke patients

A local hospital is getting new neurologists who resemble a character from the Jetsons. St. Mary's Medical Center has implemented a new medical device called the Pearl machine that helps speed up the process of treating stroke...

Biovail Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Financial Results

News source: Business Wire Biovail Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BVF) today announced financial results for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2008. We have also made some key hires that are vital to our...

Silencing growth inhibitors could help recovery from brain injury

Scientists have successfully regenerated damaged nerves by silence natural growth inhibitors in neurons. In a study published in the Nov. 7 issue of Science, the researchers used genetic techniques to delete these inhibitors,...

Researchers Find Relationship Between Brain Fluid And Adult Seizures

According to a new study published early online and in the December issue of Lancet Neurology, researchers better understand the disease mechanisms behind brain seizures that are due to the tapeworm-derived parasitic infection...

Biovail Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Financial Results (Business Wire)

TORONTO----Biovail Corporation today announced financial results for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2008. To the extent that this news release contains forward-looking statements, investors are...

Effects and mechanism of glucagon-like peptide-1 on injury of rats cardiomyocytes induced by...

Background Although the insulinotropic role of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in type 2 diabetes mellitus has been substantiated, its role in cardioprotection remains largely unknown. This study aimed to determine the effects...

Other illnesses affect Alzheimer's disease survival

Once elderly patients are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, the presence of other illnesses and the patients' ethnic background appear to affect their length of survival, investigators report in the medical journal Neurology.