http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. U.S. soldiers in combat often suffer constricted blood vessels and increased pressure in the brain—significant complications of traumatic brain injuries, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-traumatic-brain-injury-complications-common.html Cardiology Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:04:16 EST news279378243 A single injection, then a five-minute wait. That's all it took for hundreds of stroke and traumatic brain injury patients from South Florida and nationwide to reverse years of debilitation. Now they're walking more steadily, reading more easily, concentrating better, speaking more clearly and regaining use of once-rigid limbs - long after giving up hope that their bodies would ever respond. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-florida-doctor-survivors-shot-mobility.html Neuroscience Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:20:02 EST news275309602 For patients with a traumatic brain injury, the default standard of care has just been turned on its head by a group of researchers at the University of Washington working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-traumatic-brain-injury-standard-significant.html Medical research Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:00:06 EST news274553716 Using a special magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique to image patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), researchers have identified a biomarker that may predict which patients will do well over the long term, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-imaging-brains-compensate-traumatic-injury.html Neuroscience Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:03 EST news273068843 Although approved for use for treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) in nearly 60 countries, use of citicoline in a randomized trial that included more than 1,200 participants with TBI did not result in improvement in functional and cognitive status, according to a study appearing in the November 21 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-citicoline-functional-cognitive-status-patients.html Neuroscience Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:03 EST news272647438 A hospital stroke team used auto industry "lean" manufacturing principles to accelerate treatment times, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-hospital-techniques.html Cardiology Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:00:10 EST news269786526