Surgery

Limit imaging scans for headache? Neurosurgeons raise concerns

Recent guidelines seeking to reduce the use of neuroimaging tests for patients with headaches run the risk of missing or delaying the diagnosis of brain tumors, according to a special article in the January issue of Neurosurgery, ...

Pediatrics

Poison control data show energy drinks and young kids don't mix

More than 40 percent of reports about energy drinks to U.S. poison control centers involved children younger than 6 with some suffering serious cardiac and neurological symptoms, according to a new study presented at the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Rare brain disease concerns in US after death

Public health officials believe one person in the U.S. has died of a rare, degenerative brain disease, and they say there's a remote chance up to 13 others in multiple states were exposed to the fatal illness through surgical ...

Neuroscience

FDA panel backs brain stimulator for epilepsy

(HealthDay News) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel has unanimously backed a device that lowers the rate of seizures among people with epilepsy.

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