NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) offers advantages over plasma exchange (PLEX) for many patients with myasthenia gravis, according to a report online in the November…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hypothermia and the medications used with it can influence the common predictors of neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest, according to findings published online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with acute migraine who find sumatriptan ineffective may have a better response to rizatriptan, according to a study reported in Cephalalgia online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – White matter (WM) hyperintensities seen on MRI brain scans correlate with gait and stability difficulties in elderly subjects, as well as with reduced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The school performance at age 16 of children born to epileptic mothers correlates with their degree of exposure to anticonvulsant drugs in utero,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Forget those headlines from the past few years linking hypercholesterolemia in midlife to risk of dementia in old age. Data presented in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib or erlotinib may slow the development of central nervous system metastases in patients with advanced non-small cell lung…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risks involved in the endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms are about the same whether the aneurysms is bigger than 3 mm…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The question of when to resume warfarin therapy after a patient has an intracranial hemorrhage is answered in the December issue of Stroke.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very elderly patients, perhaps up to 100 years old, with acute ischemic stroke benefit from timely thrombolytic therapy to the same degree as…