NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Progressive task-repetitive treadmill exercise recruits cerebellum-midbrain and subcortical circuits to promote gait recovery after hemiparetic stroke, according to trial results published in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining eptifibatide with low-dose recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) appears to be a safe thrombolytic strategy for acute ischemic stroke, study findings in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with treatment-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy, the quality of life and mortality benefit from being seizure-free with surgery outweighs the risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although often billed as a memory and cognition enhancing product, Ginkgo biloba does not stave off cognitive decline or help prevent dementia and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus reduced symptoms and improved function in patients with severe, refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during a trial conducted…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elevated nonfasting levels of triglycerides, a marker for remnant lipoproteins, are associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, according to analysis of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study of Vietnam War era veterans shows that exposure to Agent Orange is associated with a significantly increased risk of prostate cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to increase the long-term mortality rate in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Once elderly patients are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, ethnicity and comorbidity appear to affect survival, investigators report in the November 4 issue of…