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Study finds lack of safety restraint in a semi-truck increases risk of injury regardless of seating position

Semi-truck drivers and sleeper berth passengers who were not using safety restraints, significantly increased the odds of injuries in moving collisions compared to those semi-truck occupants who were using ...

Health created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study points to essential role of IL-22 in lung repair after the flu

Once the initial episode of influenza has passed, the chronic effects tend to be overlooked. The results of a new study indicate that the cytokine interleukin-22 (IL-22) plays a critical role in normal lung repair following ...

Medical research created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Navy creates iPad app for managing stress and fending off PTSD

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is co-funding an affordable, hi-tech, solution for managing stress that could help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), helping warfighters and potentially saving ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Even mild traumatic brain injuries can kill brain tissue, study finds

Scientists have watched a mild traumatic brain injury play out in the living brain, prompting swelling that reduces blood flow and connections between neurons to die.

Neuroscience created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Amateur players need to beware of long term effects of concussion

Well timed to coincide with the Super Bowl, the US football final that seems to obsess the nation, President Obama raised the issue of the effects of long term damage caused by concussion in the game. In an interview with ...

Health created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human brain treats prosthetic devices as part of the body

People with spinal cord injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part of their body, not extension of immobile limbs injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part of their body, not extension of immobile ...

Medical research created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain injury may be autoimmune phenomenon, like multiple sclerosis, research finds

Most scientists are starting to agree that repeat, sub-concussive hits to the head are dangerous and linked to neurological disorders later in life. A new collaborative study, though, attempted to find out why – and discovered ...

Immunology created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Posttraumatic stress disorder common after lung injury

(HealthDay)—Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are common in patients recovering from acute lung injury (ALI), according to a study published online March 5 in Psychological Medicine.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer model may help athletes and soldiers avoid brain damage and concussions

(Medical Xpress)—Concussions can occur in sports and in combat, but health experts do not know precisely which jolts, collisions and awkward head movements during these activities pose the greatest risks to the brain. To ...

Neuroscience created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists develop antidote to new anticoagulants

(Medical Xpress)—Anticoagulants have saved the lives of those at risk for heart attack or stroke. However, because they prevent blood clotting, they can be dangerous to patients who suffer traumatic injuries or who require ...

Medical research created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Functional electrical stimulation cycling promotes physical, neurological recovery in spinal cord injury

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury finds that long-term lower extremity functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling, as part of a rehabilitation regimen, ...

Medical research created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research advances understanding of the human brain

(Medical Xpress)—Advanced neuroimaging techniques are giving researchers new insight into how the human brain plans and controls limb movements. This advance could one day lead to new understanding of disease ...

Neuroscience created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NIH develops improved mouse model of alcoholic liver disease

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists may be better able to study how heavy drinking damages the liver using a new mouse model of alcohol drinking and disease developed by researchers from the National Institute ...

Medical research created Mar 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mouth device in clinical trials as possible treatment for TBI

The tongue is an amazing organ. Thousands of nerve fibers in it help us eat, drink and swallow. Without them, we would not taste. The tongue helps us speak. Quietly, its surface defends our bodies from germs.

Medical research created Mar 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers link left-sided brain injury with greater risk for hospital-acquired infections

The March 2013 issue of Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the medical journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, features an article by Kessler researchers Pasquale Frisina, PhD, Ann Kutlik ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0