The Journal of Neurosurgery published a case report this week on an emerging procedure which allows doctors to transfer working nerves to other locations in the body where nerve function has been lost, thus restoring movement. The study highlights the treatment’s success by describing one patient who underwent this procedure to regain hand function after… Read More
CPSC Announces Pool and Trampoline Safety Recalls and Warnings
As the summer months approach and the weather improves, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced the recall of two dangerous products and released a safety warning on a third. All these recent safety alerts primarily concern children, who are highly vulnerable to defective and potentially hazardous outdoor toys and sporting goods like… Read More
Girls’ Soccer Accounts for Second Most High School Sports Concussions
A recently published study on the number of sports-related concussions in the United States found, not surprisingly, that football leads the list with the majority of these injuries. However, what is surprising about the results is that girls’ soccer came in with the second greatest number of these injuries. Furthermore, the study published in The… Read More
Electric Device May Stimulate Brain Activity in Alzheimer’s Patients
Reuters reports that a new safety trial suggests that when a small electronic device is implanted into the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, beneficial brain activity may be stimulated. Although Reuters is careful to note that the results do not indicate that the small, pacemaker-like device has any hope in acting as a cure, “it may… Read More
CDC Warns Proper Shelter Comes Before Head Protection during Tornado Season
As we enter late spring and start facing the risk of increasingly violent storms, notably tornadoes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released a statement clarifying the proper response to an approaching twister. The Mother Nature Network explains that the tornado season varies by region, though it “tends to move northward from… Read More
Single Research Breakthrough May Treat Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s & Other Diseases
A new article published in Nature reports that British researchers have discovered a process that results in brain cell death and may have the drug that can treat a range of related diseases. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), researchers at the University of Leicester have discovered how the “build-up of proteins in mice… Read More