Neurology
<ѻý class='mpt-top_cat_title_description'>News, opinions and meeting coverage in neurology.ѻý>
<ѻý>CCSVI Practices Suboptimal but Patients Don't Mindѻý>
DALLAS -- Canadian multiple sclerosis patients who left the country to undergo the controversial procedure called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) often received poor pre- and postoperative care, but most were still relatively satisfied overall, a researcher reported here.
Jun 01, 2014
<ѻý>Gastro Effects Dog Oral MS Drug Tecfideraѻý>
DALLAS -- Large proportions of patients starting on dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera) for multiple sclerosis need additional medications to manage the drug's GI and other side effects, and a substantial minority ultimately find the drug intolerable.
May 30, 2014
<ѻý>Medtronic's Infuse Moves From Operating Room to Courtroomѻý>
An investigative series by ѻý/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has been tracking the spinal fusion device called Infuse in a 4-year-long series and now reports how a flawed FDA system for device approval may have led to a long string of adverse events culminating in thousands of liability suits.
May 18, 2014
<ѻý>Murder: Another Ambien Side Effect?ѻý>
NEW YORK CITY -- Forensic psychiatrists are facing new challenges with murders committed by people under the influence of the sleep drug zolpidem (Ambien) -- not least to persuade the criminal justice system to take their conclusions seriously.
May 07, 2014
<ѻý>APA Meeting Highlights Mental Health Biologyѻý>
NEW YORK CITY -- The biological basis for normal and abnormal mental function is emerging as a dominant theme in psychiatry research, and the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting that starts here Saturday won't be an exception.
May 01, 2014
<ѻý>Killing Pain: Benzo 'Boost' Can Be Deadlyѻý>
Adding a benzodiazepine to an opioid painkiller can increase the effect of the opioid, or in the language of addiction, benzos can boost the high -- but the combo can be deadly, according to this Killing Pain report from ѻý and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Feb 25, 2014
<ѻý>Ob/Gyns Uneasy With AHA's Take on Stroke in Pregnancyѻý>
NEW ORLEANS -- Recent guidelines from the American Heart Association on the management of stroke risk in pregnant women differ significantly from those issued by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, maternal-fetal medicine specialists said here.
Feb 10, 2014