Joseph Landolfi, a blue-collar kid from Tony Soprano’s North Jersey, has a challenging job. He is director of neuro-oncology at the JFK Brain Tumor Center in Edison, N.J. As such, he has to deliver a lot of bad news to patients. “It’s not always an easy job … It’s not..
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It’s such a remarkable story that it made the front pages of not only the New York City tabloids but The New York Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/nyregion/new-york-officer-stabbed-in-head-is-called-luckiest-unlucky-man.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/knife-rammed-nypd-officer-eder-loor-brain-sliver-leaving-blind-voiceless-paralyzed-dead-surgeon-article-1.1063995 A Manhattan police officer was stabbed in the brain by an attacker Tuesday. Yet the cop managed to pull the knife’s three-inch blade ..
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Is Intelligence Genetic? An international team of scientists claims that it has found “an intelligence gene,” the wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Sunday. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h7gYRMF5mYp-vUbSUIwAjx03IOdw?docId=CNG.2fd49f1d35b6ebb0abee3c649c6274c0.261 Researchers made their finding during a study of brain scans and DNA samples from more than 20,000 people of European ancestry from North America, Europe and Australia, according..
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Researchers believe they have found one of the earliest so-called biomarkers for autism in babies just six months old, according to a story in The Seattle Times Saturday. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017984298_autism15m.html The research was conducted by the University of Washington and several other sites, and the study was prompted by the fact..
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MIT researchers have developed a new way to monitor pressure in the brain, a method far less invasive than drilling a hole through a patient’s skull. MIT announced the new procedure in a press release it issued last Wednesday, which began by explaining that “brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can..
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A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can impair a patient’s medical decision-making ability at a time when patients or their families must make complex, sometimes life-and-death, decisions, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/2237-head-injuries-often-impair-medical-decision-making-skills “Immediately following injury and during the rehabilitation and recovery period, patients and..
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After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote..
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Military Brain Injuries Didn’t Originate in Iraq While the heightened concern about head injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan is a great step, the emphasis on TBI being the signature wound of those wars is completely misses the issue as to how big of a problem head injury has been..
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In what could be a big breakthrough, Eli Lilly & Co. has won approval from federal regulators for an imaging test that detects the brain plaque that’s a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug maker received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last Friday, and..
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One can get a concussion in the most unusual, and public, places, national television included. That’s what happened to actress Melissa Gilbert Monday night during “Dancing With The Stars.” Gilbert was taken to the hospital, which was a very smart move, after she fell and banged her head while dancing..
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