According to Science News, a study conducted on mice showed that newborn nerve cells may help heal the brain after a traumatic injury. Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center published in the Journal of Neuroscience a finding that could help treat brain injured patients with new nerve cells. Doctors have known that adult brains can make new neurons in two parts of the brain, but the role of those cells has not been clear. Some scientists suggest that generating new nerve cells may be a way to build a new brain during development and has no affect on the adult brain at all. Others argue that new wiring hooks up new brain cells and sometimes can cause seizures due to wire tangling. The new study suggests that newborn neurons made in the hippocampus are beneficial, at least in aiding recovery after a traumatic brain injury. The hippocampus…
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April 6, 2011St. Cloud Hospital Successful at Brain Cooling Therapy for Infant
April 4, 2011According to WQOW TV, St. Cloud Hospital has successfully cooled an infant to prevent or reduce the severity of brain injury. It is believed to be the first time a hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been able to reduce brain injury through the brain cooling method. Oliver Manlove, son of Renee and Kenny Manlove, was delivered full term but was deprived of oxygen during birth. He was transferred by helicopter to St. Loud Hospital for cooling. The NICU team utilized the total body cooling therapy. Therapeutic body cooling or hypothermia has been used at St. Cloud Hospital since 2005 to treat adult cardiac arrest patients. Cooling an infant can reduce the severity of a brain injury. Brain injuries during birth can result in life-long complications such as cerebral palsy, as well as developmental problems. Doctors start to cool an infant as soon as possible, the sooner a baby is…
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Study Finds Weight and IVF Treatment May Increase Miscarriages
March 31, 2011According to MSNBC, a study found that overweight women have a much higher risk of a miscarriage after having in-vitro fertilization than slimmer women who had undergone the same procedure. British doctors tracked 318 women at a London clinic who became pregnant after having in-vitro fertilization from 2000-2009. The researchers then separated women by their Body Mass Index. Women who had a BMI of 18 to 24 were classified as normal. Women with a BMI of 25 or more were classified as overweight, and those over 30 as obese. The study also took into consideration factors such as age, smoking and medical history. With all those factors, the study found overweight and obese women were much more likely to have a miscarriage than thin women. Women within the normal weight range who had undergone in-vitro fertilization had a 22 percent miscarriage rate. Women who were considered overweight and obese had…
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