Category: Neurology And Neurosurgery
June 20, 2019 – Parkinson’s Model
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Anchor lead: A mouse model may point the way toward a better understanding of how Parkinson’s disease develops, Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein called synuclein that’s involved in nerve cell communication is thought to be the culprit in causing Parkinson’s …
January 1, 2019 – AFM Cause?
December 31, 2018 – AFM
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Anchor lead: Can characterizing acute flaccid myelitis help clinicians spot it? Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis, the mysterious illness that has stuck fear into the hearts of parents nationally, has better definition now. Matthew Elrick, a pediatric neurologist at …
October 24, 2018 – Pandemic
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Anchor lead: What’s the most likely scenario for a pandemic? Elizabeth Tracey reports This year marks the 100 year anniversary of a sobering event – the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed millions of people worldwide. Now many experts are sounding …
October 23, 2018 – AFM2
October 22, 2018 – AFM
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Anchor lead: A disturbing condition called acute flaccid myelytis is now in 22 states in the US, Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis is a condition that follows what seems to be a garden variety upper respiratory infection, causing muscle …