The United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc (UPBN) annonces the annual Brachial Plexus Injury Awareness Week (October 19 - 26, 2008) to promote public awareness of this injury to infants during...
People afflicted with pancreatic cancer have a poor prognosis and oncologists do not agree on a standard of care regarding what treatment is best. I have previously reported on spectacular new...
Public Citizen reports that: "The 16-year wait for a national database that will allow car buyers to determine whether a vehicle has been stolen or rebuilt after a wreck is almost over. In an...
Yes Mean Streets is one of my favorite movies and the financial crisis is overusing the first two street names so I threw my version of what is happening out for your consideration. Are you...
Results of new research from Zurich have been published in a paper in Digestion, Vol. 78, No. 1, 2008, entitled "Chemoembolization Combined With Pravastatin Improves Survival In Patients with...
Scientists have identified a genetic defect in the previously mapped chomosome 4. The3 defective gene has been labeled "Palladin". An overview can be found at the Pancreatic Education and Research...
New hope for cures of pancreatic cancer and cholangiocarcinoma are on the horizon. New vaccines offer great promise. Pancreatic cancer along with other adenocarcinomas in the biliary system...
There is important new hope for brain injury and spinal cord injury patients reported in Science Daily Health! An important new study of rats with minor spinal cord injuries showed full recovery...
The healtcare quality company Healthgrades concluded that in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, 195,000 people died in U.S. hopsitals from "preventable" medical errors. Their new report was...
In the past, mothers at risk for premature birth were sometimes administered antibiotics. It turns out that certain antibiotics may increase the risks of cerebral palsy as well as other potential...
