Keli Rising

New research has led to the creation of bioengineered IVDs using the cells from spinal discs already removed.

Of the one million deaths caused by malaria each year, most occur "as a result of cerebral malaria, where red blood cells infected by malaria parasites build up into the brain, leading to coma and convulsions and, if not treated swiftly, death."

Quality care has always been a major focus within the healthcare industry, and all nurses play a key role; a role that will likely expand in the future.

The FDA has announced its decision to require antiepileptic drug labels to include a suicide warning.

How many times over the last year was an article published about new treatments for and possible cures of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and early prevention methods?

How would your patients react to the knowledge that they might be able to control migraines by zapping them away instead of using prescription drugs?

This symposium focused on monotherapy, polytherapy, and new AEDs on the horizon. The presenters explained that although monotherapy fails in approximately 50% of patients with seizure disorders or epilepsy, there are other alternatives.

The results from this year’s Gallup Honesty and Ethics poll were announced just before Thanksgiving and for the seventh year in a row, and eight of the nine polls since they were added, nurses were chosen as the winner.

Although the symposium focused on neurosurgery-specific content, it is still important that all neurologists are aware of the technological advancements in imaging, electrophysiology, and brain modeling that are happening all of the time.

Lately there has been a lot of research discussing the problem of neuro-infections and how they can lead to people to have seizures I was fortunate enough to talk with Samuel Wiebe, MD, director of the University of Calgary Epilepsy Program and chair of the North American Commission of International League Against Epilepsy, about this topic.

Saturday night Robert Fisher, MD, professor of neurology and director of the Stanford Epilepsy Center, presented the first public results of the stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus in epilepsy (SANTE).

The symposium, "Expert Consensus Process on Patient Safety in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit," featured a discussion on AES research taken from the last two years, which initially featured sending out a survey to evaluate patient care and safety issues in EMUs.

I had the opportunity to talk with Dennis Spencer, MD, Harvey & Kate Cushing Professor Neurosurgery and Chair of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, President of the American Epilepsy Society, about his research.I had the opportunity to talk with Dennis Spencer, MD, Harvey & Kate Cushing Professor Neurosurgery and Chair of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, President of the American Epilepsy Society, about his research.

It turns out that there are a number of ALS patients who test treatments themselves rather than move at the slow pace of medical research and have become part of "an emerging group of patients willing to share intimate health details on the Web in hopes of making their own discoveries."

Although deep brain stimulation (DBS) is typically used as a last resort treatment for people with Parkinson’s disease (and other neurological and psychiatric disorders), it is important that technology and research companies remain up to date on recent developments to make it easier to treat patients with these diseases.

Needles can be dangerous in healthcare, especially for nurses, who tend to handle them the most. In fact, the CDC "estimates that more than 800,000 needlesticks and other sharps injuries occur each year in the US," but tend to be "dramatically underreported, by anywhere from 40 to 70 percent."

Clinvest was approached by one of the largest pharmaceutical companies to "create and manage a [Mental Efficiency and Workload Test] for 500 subjects in a migraine trial occurring in 50 sites across the United States." This will be the first time cognitive processing time will be tested in a major migraine study.

People who have seizures not only experience pre- and post-seizure symptoms, they become afraid and embarrassed should they have a seizure in public.

Oncology nurses play an important role in assisting patients who have been diagnosed with cancer.

The AMA launched the "Heal the Claims Process" to dramatically reduce the unnecessary administrative burden of ensuring accurate insurance payments for physician services.

Better patient education may help alleviate the rising cost of healthcare and lead to better health outcomes, because it helps patients make more informed decisions about their healthcare.

The FDA announced its intention to push for a black box warning to be placed on the prescription label of 11 AEDs.

The AAPS said that many physicians have decided not to use EHRs because they fear the data will be used to control what they do and how they do it.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have been working on a small magnetic device, to be implanted under the tongue.

End-stage organ failure is a growing problem in the US, due in part to the fact that the number of available donor organs is lagging far behind the number of people (approximately 96,000...

According to the American Heart Association, in any given year, an estimated 5,800,000 adults age 20 years and older have a stroke (1 person every 40 seconds).

Better patient education may help alleviate the rising cost of healthcare and lead to better health outcomes, because it helps patients make more informed decisions about their healthcare.