Research hopes to reverse stroke disability by promoting nerve fiber growth.
LoyolaMedicine.org - If a stroke patient doesn’t get treatment within approximately the first three hours of symptoms, there’s not been much that doctors can do to limit damage to the brain - until perhaps, the arrival of “anti-nogo-A“.
But now researchers report a technique that potentially [...]

BYU.edu - A new study reveals part of the magic behind a diet rich in antioxidants, showing how artichokes, blueberries and pecans might help prevent the leading cause of age-related blindness in developed countries.
Researchers discovered a link between two processes in the retina that, in combination, contribute to a disease called macular degeneration. They found [...]

Pain-Topics.org - Opioid medications can be very useful for relieving many types of serious pain. However, relatively recent evidence suggests that in some patients opiate pain killers can paradoxically worsen the level of pain. For some patients with chronic pain syndromes, this can be news that they do not want to hear about (opiates are [...]

UMDNJ.edu - Vitamin D, the principal regulator of calcium in the body, may prevent the production of malignant cells such as breast and prostate cancer cells and protect against specific autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis (MS) according to an article by Sylvia Christakos, PhD, of the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School.
In the article, Christakos reports that [...]

Elderly patients who are prescribed a conventional, or first-generation, antipsychotic medication are at an increased risk of death from cardiovascular or respiratory diseases as compared to those who take an atypical, or second-generation, antipsychotic medication, according to a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The new study, “Potential Causes of Higher Mortality [...]

Rochester.edu - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved tetrabenazine in August 2008, the first drug approved for use in the United States to treat Huntington’s disease - a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure. The action comes about eight months after an advisory panel unanimously voted to advise FDA to [...]