Archive: 17/10/2017
New approach helps rodents with spinal cord injury breathe on their own
One of the most severe consequences of spinal cord injury in the neck is losing the ability to control the diaphragm and breathe on one's own. Now, investigators show for the first time in laboratory models that two different ...
Oct 17, 2017
HIV infection, even with antiretroviral therapy, appears to damage a growing child's brain
HIV infection alters brain development in young children, even when they receive antiretroviral treatment early in life, shows a report in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. Children exposed to, but not infected by, HIV also appear ...
Oct 17, 2017
Risks associated with receipt of blood transfusion from previously pregnant donor
Among patients who received red blood cell transfusions, receiving a transfusion from a donor who was ever pregnant, compared with a male donor, was associated with an increased risk of death among male recipients of transfusions ...
Oct 17, 2017