by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
PHOENIX – Sleep medicine doctors need to get ahead of the curve on home sleep apnea testing or risk being put out of business, according to Dr. Charles W. Atwood Jr., director of the Sleep Disorders Program at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System. Those...
by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders
Regular users of statins had a “marginally significant” lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than did nonusers in a prospective, observational analysis of two large, ongoing study cohorts. The protective effect was stronger at ages younger than 60...
by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Videos For Neurology, Neuro-Oncology
Patients with newly diagnosed anaplastic oligodendroglial tumors with chromosome 1p and 19q deletions live dramatically longer lives if PCV chemotherapy is added before or after standard radiation therapy, long-term follow-up from two large, prospective trials shows.*...
by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Neurosurgery
An investigative, minimally invasive surgery for reducing intracranial clot volume following an intracerebral hemorrhage showed promise in results from a phase II study. In the controlled study, 54 patients who underwent clot removal by minimally-invasive surgery...
by Ket Patel | Mar 13, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Stroke
When results from a major trial with more than 900 patients failed to show that closure of a patent foramen ovale in patients who had a cryptogenic stroke worked better than medical therapy for preventing a future stroke, some experts suggested that the problem was...
