http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Mouthguards and helmets can help ward off other serious head and facial injuries, but there is no good evidence that they can help prevent concussion, and paradoxically, they may even encourage players to take greater risks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-good-evidence-mouthguards-helmets-ward.html Health Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:30:02 EST news282223220 Contrary to current belief, routine newborn screening improves the detection of the lethal form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in girls as well as boys, saving lives in both sexes, according to a unique study of CAH during the last 100 years published Online First in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. Babies are routinely screened for CAH in most developed countries, but this is not yet the case in all countries, including the UK and Australia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-unique-highlights-importance-universal-newborn.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:30:01 EST news281010233 More than a third of patients who suffer a major bleeding in the brain and have their life support withdrawn might have eventually regained an acceptable level of functioning if life support had been sustained, suggests a new study presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-patients-life-withdrawn-less-than-ideal.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:22 EST news279448080 A minimally invasive procedure to remove blood clots in brain tissue after hemorrhagic stroke appears safe and may also reduce long-term disability, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-surgical-procedure-outcomes.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:18 EST news279448508 Scientists at the University of Birmingham have devised a unique screening instrument that provides a 'one-stop' brain function profile of patients who have suffered stroke or other neurological damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-unique-tool.html Neuroscience Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:32:51 EST news277626763 Pertussis is at its highest level nationally in a half-century. But cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, often decline in late fall into early winter. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-cases-whooping-highest-decades.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:40:06 EST news274962039 Treatment with a novel agent that inhibits the activity of SIRT2, an enzyme that regulates many important cellular functions, reduced neurological damage, slowed the loss of motor function and extended survival in two animal models of Huntington's disease. The study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers will appear in the Dec. 27 issue of Cell Reports and is receiving advance online release. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-enzyme-inhibition-huntington-disease-animal.html Neuroscience Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:07:05 EST news273413207 New animal studies provide additional support for investigating stem cell treatments for Parkinson's disease, head trauma, and dangerous heart problems that accompany spinal cord injury, according to research findings released today. The work, presented at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, shows scientists making progress toward using stem cell therapies to repair neurological damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-potential-stem-cell-therapy.html Neuroscience Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:52:45 EST news269538757 Infections and fatalities from West Nile virus have risen to new record levels in the United States in the first week of September, the Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cases-west-nile-virus-soaring.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:05:42 EST news266123134 The West Nile virus, responsible for more than 60 deaths in the United States so far this year, has now claimed its first victim in the eastern state of Maryland, state health officials said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-west-nile-deaths-mount-dead.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:17:08 EST news265573020 A new class of drug developed at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows early promise of being a one-size-fits-all therapy for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and traumatic brain injury by reducing inflammation in the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-drug-alzheimer-multiple-sclerosis-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:09:11 EST news262368535 While clinical trial results are being released regarding drugs intended to decrease amyloid production - thought to contribute to decline in Alzheimer's disease - clinical trials of drugs targeting other disease proteins, such as tau, are in their initial phases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-anti-tau-drug-cognition-decreases-tau.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:45:03 EST news261920677 Researchers said Monday they were a step closer to developing a vaccine against the type of meningitis that mostly affects Europe and North America and kills hundreds every year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-closer-meningitis-vaccine.html Medications Mon, 07 May 2012 04:46:33 EST news255584761 The development of more effective cancer drugs could be a step nearer thanks to the discovery, by scientists at Warwick Medical School, of how an inbuilt 'security check' operates to guarantee cells divide with the correct number of chromosomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-warwick-scientists-uncover-checkpoint-proteins.html Cancer Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:18:25 EST news254139485 Secondary school-kids who use speed and ecstasy seem to be prone to subsequent depression, indicates research of almost 4000 teens published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-ecstasy-linked-teen-depression.html Addiction Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:30:01 EST news253981095 A compound that previously progressed to Phase II clinical trials for cancer treatment slows neurological damage and improves brain function in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study in the March 14 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest the drug epothilone D (EpoD) may one day prove useful for treating people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cancer-drug-memory-mouse-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:00:09 EST news250869436 In medical research, finding a reliable and cost-effective animal model can greatly enhance success in identifying disease mechanisms and genetic pathways, potentially cutting years off drug testing regimes and development of new treatment strategies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-neurobiologists-animal-deadly-human-metabolic.html Neuroscience Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:50:03 EST news248362176 A new study from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London shows how a particular virus tricks the immune system into triggering inflammation and nerve cell damage in the brain, which is known to cause MS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-link-virus-ms-treatment.html Neuroscience Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:20:01 EST news244980542 An article to be published Friday (Dec. 23) in the December 2011 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that multiple sclerosis, long viewed as primarily an autoimmune disease, is not actually a disease of the immune system. Dr. Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, suggests instead that MS is caused by faulty lipid metabolism, in many ways more similar to coronary atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) than to other autoimmune diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-contends-multiple-sclerosis-disease-immune.html Immunology Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:36:30 EST news243794165 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have developed a promising new treatment for spinal cord injury in animals, which could eventually prevent paralysis in thousands of people worldwide every year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-spinal-cord-treatment.html Neuroscience Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:39:10 EST news240838742 Scientists at Warwick Medical School have uncovered the molecular process of how cells are by-passing the body's inbuilt 'health checkpoint' with cells that carry unequal numbers of chromosomes that have a higher risk of developing cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-scientists-daughter-cells-chromosomes.html Genetics Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:30:03 EST news239365794 Professor William G. Kearns told the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that a three-day-old embryo (called a cleavage stage embryo) with an incorrect number of chromosomes (known as "aneuploidy") was capable of undergoing "a dynamic process of genetic normalisation" so that by day five, when it had developed to the blastocyst stage, it had become euploid, with the correct number of chromosomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-early-embryos-genetic-abnormalities.html Genetics Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:01:09 EST news229078854 Brain cancer therapy may be more effective if the expression of an iron-storing protein is decreased to enhance the action of therapeutic drugs on brain cancer cells, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-iron-key-brain-tumor-drug.html Cancer Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:09:16 EST news226228146