CHICAGO - Zapping the brain with a mild electrical current appears to help patients with a difficult-to-treat form of cerebral palsy, French researchers said on Wednesday.
CHICAGO - Zapping the brain with a mild electrical current appears to help patients with a difficult-to-treat form of cerebral palsy, French researchers said on Wednesday.
A US advisory panel on Tuesday called for greater restrictions on the widely-used pain reliever acetaminophen, even recommending banning some medications that contain it, in a bid to prevent potentially fatal overdoses.
NEW YORK – The ability of a mother to identify a weight problem in her child appears to be dependent on her own weight, with overweight mothers tending to underestimate her child’s weight. On the other hand, a mother’s ability to correctly determine the weight status of a child who is unrelated to her appears to depend on her socioeconomic level, new research in Pediatrics shows.
MELBOURNE - Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a 'Trojan horse' against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.
BERLIN - Weakness on one side of the body or numbness in an arm or leg are possible signs that a stroke has taken place, according to Germany’s Neurology Society in Berlin.
Sanofi-Aventis’s diabetes drug Lantus may increase the risk of cancer, according to European studies involving some 300,000 insulin-treated patients, prompting a call from experts for more research.
Children who are overweight at age 6 to 7 years are at increased risk for having symptoms of asthma like shortness of breath and ‘twitchy’ airways when they are 8 years old, results of a study conducted in the Netherlands show.
NEW YORK - Children who are overweight at age 6 to 7 years are at increased risk for having symptoms of asthma like shortness of breath and “twitchy” airways when they are 8 years old, results of a study conducted in the Netherlands show.
The death of pop music icon Michael Jackson from cardiac arrest on Thursday has raised a host of questions about what might have caused it. It may take weeks before an autopsy can reveal the true circumstances that led the singer’s heart to stop.
NEW DELHI - There is a direct link between smoking and brain damage, according to new research conducted by Debapriya Ghosh and Dr. Anirban Basu from the Indian National Brain Research Centre (NBRC).