Neurosurgery and Poem – Happy New Year
To be great, be whole To be great, be whole; exclude Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. The...
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ECTRIMS: Novel MS Drug Efficacy, Safety Last (CME/CE)
AMSTERDAM (MedPage Today) — The investigational oral drug teriflunomide (Aubagio) seems to have maintained its effectiveness during up to nine years of follow-up in clinical trial patients with the relapsing form of multiple sclerosis,...
ECTRIMS: Little Support Found for Vascular MS Theory (CME/CE)
AMSTERDAM (MedPage Today) — Of a dozen studies presented here on the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) theory of multiple sclerosis, most failed to find any support for it. http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ECTRIMS/29266 Sent with MobileRSS for...
Risk of venous thromboembolism from use of oral contraceptives containing different progestogens and
Objective To assess the risk of venous thromboembolism from use of combined oral contraceptives according to progestogen type and oestrogen dose.Design National historical registry based cohort… http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/Cvg7SJAzzJo/bmj.d6423.short Sent with MobileRSS for iPhone Júlio Leonardo...
Primary dystonia and dystonia-plus syndromes: clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and pathogenesis
Publication year: 2011 Source: The Lancet Neurology, Available online 24 October 2011 Julie Phukan, Alberto Albanese, Thomas Gasser, Thomas Warner The dystonias are a heterogeneous group of hyperkinetic movement disorders characterised by involuntary sustained...
High-Dose Vitamin D No Help in MS (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — Supplementation with high-dose vitamin D failed to reduce the number or volume of MRI lesions in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, a small randomized trial found. http://www.medpagetoday.com/clinical-context/MultipleSclerosis/29235 Sent with MobileRSS for...
Experts criticise industry sponsorship of articles on health policy in Australian newspaper
Ethicists and journalism leaders have raised concerns about drug industry sponsorship of health journalism in the broadsheet newspaper the Australian, owned by News Ltd, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News… http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/recent/~3/zR_T78DdPzo/bmj.d6903.short Sent with MobileRSS for...
Organized Outpatient Care: Stroke Prevention Clinic Referrals Are Associated With Reduced Mortality
Background and Purpose— Organized inpatient stroke care decreases mortality and morbidity irrespective of patient age, stroke severity, or stroke subtype. Limited information is available on whether organized outpatient care models such as stroke prevention...
Isoflavone Soy Protein Supplementation and Atherosclerosis Progression in Healthy Postmenopausal Wom
Background and Purpose— Although epidemiological and experimental studies suggest that dietary intake of soy may be cardioprotective, use of isoflavone soy protein (ISP) supplementation as a primary preventive therapy remains unexplored. We determined whether...
Aspirin as a Promising Agent for Decreasing Incidence of Cerebral Aneurysm Rupture [Original Contrib
Background and Purpose— Chronic inflammation is postulated as an important phenomenon in intracranial aneurysm wall pathophysiology. This study was conducted to determine if aspirin use impacts the occurrence of intracranial aneurysm rupture. Methods— Subjects...