Protocols for Treatment of Infantile Spasms
Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms (IS) have been established by researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG).
The goal of the ISWG is to improve patient outcomes by creating protocols that educate pediatricians on early diagnosis and treatment options. Full details of this study appear online in IEpilepsia/I, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International League ...
A new study says that people who believe in fate are more superstitious, but the same people, when faced with death, abandon all their beliefs
Kansas State University researcher Scott Fluke and his colleagues focused on personality traits that lead to superstition.
They defined superstition as the belief in a casual relationship between an action, object, or ritual and an unrelated outcome. Such superstitious behaviour can include actions like wearing ...
A new study says that cigarette smoke causes a key enzyme that regulates the body's response to inflammation, to shut off.
Researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham found that smoke causes the enzyme to shut down white blood cells following a successful response to inflammation.
The study also found a previously unknown substrate of the enzyme, which recruits white blood cells that attack the cause of the inflammation.
"We found, ...
A prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney\ has been unveiled by an UCSF team led by an Indian-origin scientist. This is a feat that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis
The device, which would include thousands of microscopic filters as well as a bioreactor to mimic the metabolic and water-balancing roles of a real kidney, is being developed in a collaborative effort by engineers, biologists and physicians nationwide, led by Dr. Shuvo ...
