FOX: After Stroke, Clot Removal Saves Brain Function, Studies Say
Grabbing and removing a clot blocking blood flow to the brain, rather than just administering clot-busting drugs, dramatically improves the likelihood that patients will recover from a stroke, according to two highly-anticipated studies released on Wednesday.
BBC: The Pioneering Tech Helping to Treat Brain Cancer
From robot guided lasers which destroy tumors but leave healthy brain tissue unaffected to drugs which can be directed to specific parts of the brain by magnets, BBC Click’s Dan Simmons looks at the future of brain cancer treatments. WATCH THE VIDEO
Voice of America: New Technology Raises Odds for Surviving Aneurysm
Each year, half a million people die from aneurysms, blood vessel ruptures in the brain. For survivors, disabilities are often severe – from blindness and trouble speaking, to loss of balance and memory problems. But new technologies are increasing survival...
The Doctors TV: Treating ALS
Get a glimpse inside one of veteran publicist Nanci Ryder’s ALS treatment appointments. Plus, learn the common signs and symptoms of the progressive disease. WATCH THE VIDEO
FabOver50.com: Dr. Black Discusses Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Are your little memory lapses really as innocuous as your doctor claims?
Let’s say you’re 55 and learned today that you’d definitely live to be at least 85. That would be pretty good news, right? But what if you learned, at the same time, that you’d positively be in the 47 percent of the population over 85 that gets Alzheimer’s disease. Not such good news, you say.