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The Known Causes of Seizures (Free subscription) | yesterday
ONE HELPING of agony, Mekete Gebrehanna saw coming. The second portion, he wasn’t prepared for. Gebrehanna left his home in Ethiopia to earn a degree in environmental science in Guyana. Afterward, his wife and two sons joined him for their new life in Truro, where he began studying for a master’s degree at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Bible Hill. They loved living in Canada....
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
The state can now decide who is entitled to have a baby and remove the child from those they claim are not intelligent enough. A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him...
The Food & Drink Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Peter Abertoning Is it possible that there are drugs in your drinking water? Surely it's not possible that when you drink a glass of water you're drinking drugs? Lets take a look at the possibility that there are drugs in drinking water in the US. Lets start with a quote from the Ralph Nader Institute. "U.S. drinking water contains more than 2,100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer."...
Cheri Quite Contrary (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
That is what I am dealing with now - what appears to be Central Pain Syndrome, which has hit me completely out of the blue. Entirely related to my severely damaged lumbar nerves but completely unlike any of the other pain I have experienced to date. CentralPain.org This new pain is a burning feeling from my bra strap to my hips, on my back. It is only on the skin, but feels like the worst sunburn you...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Abbott Laboratories said its sales and marketing practices of Depakote, the widely used drug for bipolar disorder and epilepsy, are under federal investigation.
Flesh is Grass (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I just can’t get my head round it. Total blank (mind your epilepsy). Is it something more than ideas against hegemony? Sometimes I feel a bit anxious because I don’t understand it, just can’t at all get to grips with it as a discipline. Maybe this, by Michael Berube, is why: in his piece Cultural [...]
Phd Position in Biology (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
University Bonn,Department of Epileptology .We offer a PhD position (TVL 13/2) in the field of cellular electrophysiology . The scientific interests of our working group include physiology of synaptic transmission, pathophysiology of epilepsy and mechanisms of pharmacoresistance in people with chronic epilepsy. The announced project deals with activity-dependent alterations of proteins which are involved...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you're Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done. He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The American Academy of Neurology has named a new Editor-in-Chief of its medical journal Neurology(r), the world's leading clinical neurology journal. Robert A. Gross, MD, PhD, with the University of Rochester Medical Center and Director of the Strong Epilepsy Center in Rochester, New York, will officially succeed Editor-in-Chief John H. Noseworthy, MD, FAAN. Gross has been serving as Interim Editor-in-Chief...
B P Collins: Chalfont Suite Art Exhibitions (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The 'Creating Possibilities' exhibition of paintings, by artists based at The National Society for Epilepsy, drew to a close this week having raised nearly £3500 for the residents of the Chalfont St Peter based charity. Heralded as our most successful exhibition to date, the vibrant and eclectic style of paintings certainly caught the imagination of visiting clients, with two of the paintings...
Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
If getting sick weren’t so miserable, I’m sure more can appreciate the beauty of this video. MedGadget points us to this NPR piece featuring Xvivo, a company that produces impressive medical and scientific animations. This one shows us how viruses infect cells and reproduce themselves. Enjoy. Posted at KevinMD.com. Stay updated and subscribe, follow me on [...] Posted at KevinMD.com . Stay...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From a slew of new brainwave toys and bionic monkeys to advanced brain scans and wireless neuro-implants that will soon enable paralyzed people to remotely operate computers with their minds, the gap in the human-machine interface is closing. But while mind-reading gets all the glory, other researchers are developing new amazing non-drug methods to control the brain as well. We've posted many times...
Mary's World (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
It is not a new leaf, actually it is the same old leaf so I don't expect it to last, but I am turning it over again. It all started with Rosie O'Donnell having a new radio show on Sirius/XM. I thought the show was from 10am to noon...no problem there, I try to at least get up by 10am or maybe 10:30...ok some times 11am. Since I don't have a kid to take to school anymore I don't get up in the morning...
Nature Publishing Group (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Generic drug substitution can markedly decrease the cost of health care. For conditions where agents have a relatively narrow therapeutic index, notably epilepsy, financial savings through generic substitution might be offset by increases in patient complications and related costs. Results from a study with topiramate support this view, particularly when a patient receives a drug from multiple manufacturers....
Nature Publishing Group (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Continuous EEG monitoring in intensive care units seems to affect physicians' decisions regarding prescription of anticonvulsant drugs. We are just beginning to understand what the EEG patterns mean and to learn whether and when these prescribing changes matter.
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aarkstore | 10/30/2009
Epilepsy Therapy Area Pipeline Report contains detailed information on the epilepsy drug pipeline. This report provides insight into the pipeline status of epilepsy drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area. Scope of the report: Each Life Science Analytics’ Therapy Area Pipeline Report provides the user with real detail on drug pipelines, by...
aarkstore | 10/22/2009
The Epilepsy Disease and Therapy Review provides incidence and prevalence numbers and percentages for major countries worldwide, information on diagnosis, and an overview of treatments. Dosing information is provided for a large number of products, including Neurontin, Keppra, Lyrica, Depakote, and Klonopin. General information is provided about sales performance for major products. Additional Information...
backpainmedication | 10/03/2009
Tramadol has been used as an analgesic since the late 1970s, and became one of the most popular analgesics of its class in Germany . International interest for the drug has been renewed when it was discovered that tramadol not only acts like opioids, but also inhibits serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake. Tramadol is a unique medication. Its mode of action and safety profile distinguishes it from other...
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