Brain Cancer

According to the American Brain Tumor Association, just over 24,000 patients will be diagnosed with a primary malignant brain tumour during 2012 in the US alone. Some 80% of primary malignant brain...

Brain Infections

Brain Abscess

Brain biopsy

Brain Death

NeuroSigma to launch Monarch eTNS system at 10th European Congress on Epileptology

NeuroSigma, Inc., a Los Angeles-based medical device company, announced today that its Monarch eTNS system for the adjunctive treatment of epilepsy and depression will make its debut at the 10th Europ...

Stroke recovery and treatment studies win top honors at Canadian Stroke Congress

(Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada) Two outstanding studies - one measuring the ability of the brain to recover from stroke and the other a tool to predict clinical outcomes after stroke - were ho...

Restoring the Blood-Brain Barrier

Mice lacking an anti-inflammatory protein called annexin A1 (ANXA1) exhibit significant decreases in the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, reports a team led by researchers at the Queen Mary, Univ...

Brain Implants Help Parkinson’s Patients

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that deep brain stimulation, a therapy in which an device is implanted in the brain to send electrical impulses to different parts of the organ, ca...

25th Congress Of The European College Of Neuropsychopharmacology 2012 Highlights

Europe's leading voice for research on disorders of the brain: Celebrating a quarter-century at the cutting edge and looking ahead to new advances In the course of the 25th ECNP Congress leading expe...

Congress, Fearing ‘Brain Drain,’ Seeks to Opt Out of Participating in Obamacare’s Exchanges

As Obamacare was winding its way through the Senate in 2009, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) slipped in an amendment requiring that members of Congress, and their staff, enroll in Obamacare’s health...

Even With Brain Mapping, Damage To Inner Brain Structures Can Occur During Conscious Brain Surgery

Injury to the subcortical structures of the inner brain is a major contributor to worsening neurological abnormalities after "awake craniotomy" for brain tumors, reports a study in the February issue...

Obama Gives Details of Brain-Research Project

President Obama is asking Congress to spend $100 million next year to start a project to map the human brain in hopes of eventually finding cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.

Abstracts of EUROHAND 2012, the XVIIth FESSH (Federation of the European Societies for Surgery of the Hand) Congress. June 20-23, 2012. Antwerp, Belgium.

Can Congress Regulate "Inactivity" (and Make Americans Buy Health Insurance)?

On January 31, 2011, federal judge Roger Vinson declared the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.(1) Judge Vinson concluded that Congress had no authority to enact...

Meeting report on the 2012 annual congress of the international liver transplant society.

Proceedings of the 2012 World Molecular Imaging Congress, Dublin, Ireland, September 5-8, 2012.

4th National Congress of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery : Genoa, Italy, 24-26 October 2011, Magazzini del Cotone Congress Center Presidents: Antonio Amato, Gian Andrea Binda.