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- Can Fox' genome help cure Parkinson's?
- 23andme has signed up The Parkinson's Institute as a test market for its personal genome service. The effort is being underwritten by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Since announcing he had Parkinson's a decade ago, Fox right has built a charitable powerhouse which has donated over $120 million...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
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- Smart Planet: New innovations in Deep Brain Stimulation surgery
- Is there new hope for Parkinson's patients? Imaging scientist, Alastair Martin, and neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Larson, have teamed up to develop a way to perform Deep Brain Stimulation surgery that's more comfortable for the patients, more accurate and cuts the regular procedure time in half to 3 1/2 hours. The...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Wound Care Manager 1.0 (Mobile)
- The Wound Care Manager ? is an electronic database solution for patient assessment and data management of wounds and skin care. This application wasdeveloped using industry expert consultants in Wound Care along with the most current assessment and outcome measures.Although this software can be used in any setting, many features...
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Patient HandChart (Mobile)
- The Patient Palm Chart is an electronic medical record for patient data management and assessment. Although this application can be utilized for any type ofpatient management system, the program provides all the necessary tools a Senior Care Practitioner requires to manage the geriatric patient. This program was designed to be...
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Ground breaking surgery "eliminates" neuro-illnesses
- What if you could turn on and off Parkinson's, dystonia or Tourette's syndrome? Ground breaking surgery could open up the world to the unseen world of neurosciences. Article by Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Exclusive: A robot with a biological brain
- University of Reading scientists have developed a robot controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. And this is a world's premiere. Other research teams have tried to control robots with 'brains,' but there was always a computer in the loop. This new project is the first one to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Inside long term care with Martin Bayne
- Now that I've spent the last 14 years fighting the good fight against Parkinson's -- and thus, would be truly effective at helping a consumer understand the pros and cons of LTCi, all the insurers suddenly forgot my name. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Is Alzheimer's also heart disease?
- Is Alzheimer's also heart disease?Actually, smoking might protect against Alzheimer'sWhen the social security administration was asked whether the reduced number of smokers would have a financial impact, researchers found that smoking had no effect on life expectancy and answered No. That result was unacceptable to a current of thought,...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- The Rehabilitation Specialist's Handbook (rehabhb) (Mobile)
- The Rehabilitation Specialist''s Handbookpowered by Skyscape Publisher: F.A. Davis Company This is the book that your students will need as they transition to clinical practice, that practicing PTs will need as they pursue a transitional DPT, and that rehabilitation specialists will need to refresh their clinical knowledge. Every member of...
- Software downloads 2008-06-06
- 23andme presents its consumer strategy
- It's research, and the tentative name for it is 23andwe, although the company has yet to buy a separate domain name. The phrase was first used by co-founder Linda Avey at a Bio-IT World Expo keynote earlier this month. The idea was fleshed out...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Health conspiracies usually aren't
- Health conspiracies usually aren'tExonerated?Don't you mean implicated? If not, please explain.How old was Woody Allen in Sleeper?Remember the scene in "Sleeper" where Woody's character, a health food nut, is surrounded by doctors smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis?Don't think tobacco will be rehabilitatedThe health problems associated with tobacco usage over...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- The fight over statins
- The fight over statinsstatinsStatin drugs are powerful anti-inflammatory agents, and increase perfusion everywhere thru effect upon eNOS. I can appreciate their unqualified use in an ACUTE setting, post heart attack or stroke. My belief is that with prolonged use, the "pleiotropic effects" of this class of drugs may...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- New Alzheimer's test is scary tech
- New Alzheimer's test is scary techI'm with you...I have found from sad experience that being informed of an incurable disease usually programs most people to degenerate much faster than they would otherwise have done. Same for low percentage chance curable diseases.I'm familiar with the thought processes and the way the...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for now
- In spite of a bitter battle between Novell and Sun developers, OpenOffice won’t fork â€" at least for now. That's the consensus among several OpenOffice developers who are locked in a bitter dispute with Sun over how the open source project is governed but who nevertheless...
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Artificial brains for robots?
- An international team of European researchers has implanted an artificial cerebellum -- the portion of the brain that controls motor functions -- inside a robotic system. This EU-funded project is dubbed SENSOPAC, an acronym for 'SENSOrimotor structuring of perception and action for emerging cognition.' One of the goals of this...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Today's Debate: We're all just electrical impulse
- Yesterday's big story, the lead on the NBC Nightly News, was of course the use of a "brain pacemaker" to bring people out of deep coma.Brian Williams expressed great amazement at this feat, called Deep Brain Stimulation, noting that hundreds of thousands may be "awakened" by it.DBS is already approved as...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Clinical Neurology - Mobipocket Reader 2008 (Mobile)
- Topics include: evaluation of weakness, neuropathy, myasthenia gravis, demyelinating disease including MS and Guillain-Barre, carpal tunnel, cerebellar disorders, movement disorders (tics, Tourette, dystonia..), tremors, Parkinsons, cerebral palsy, ALS, seizures, strokes, headaches, coma, cervical spine problems, low back pain, radiculopathy, sciatica, myofacial pain, sacroiliac dysfunction, ankylosing spondylitis and pseudo-neurological syndromes. To...
- Software downloads 2007-06-13
- Neuro Doctor 1 (Mobile)
- Neuro Doctor is a complete guide to the management of the twelve most common neurology problems afflicting man today. Discussions concerning the disease description, orders, diagnosis and therapeutics are presented in a most concise and comprehensive manner. Designed for physicians and patients, Neuro Doctor acts as a quick reference to...
- Software downloads 2006-06-16
- The sixth sense of worms
- You probably know that we have a sixth sense, named proprioception, which allows us to know where we are in space and helps us "to put one foot in front of the other to walk without looking at your feet." Now researchers at the University of Michigan have found that...
- Blog posts 2006-04-11
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