Neurology
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BP levels during endovascular stroke therapy affect neurologic outcomes
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Opioid deaths boost donor heart supply
SNOWMASS, COLO. – The size of the donor heart pool for transplantation, flat for decades, is growing significantly.
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Cannabis for sleep: Short-term benefit, long-term disruption?
“This suggests that while cannabis may improve overall sleep, it’s also possible that there is a tolerance that develops with either very frequent...
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Race, ethnicity may influence outcomes after supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage
In a cohort of young adults, the percentage of patients with a poor functional outcome after 3 months was 52% among white patients, 35% among...
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Hippocampal sparing temporal lobectomy recommended for medically refractory epilepsy
BALTIMORE – Hippocampal sparing anterior temporal lobectomy reduced the risk of memory impairment in patients with intractable temporal lobe...
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Medicaid spending on MS drugs rose despite introduction of generic glatiramer
“Although some of this increase is attributable to the 2014 Medicaid expansion, the primary driver was rising DMT costs per prescription, which...
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FDA committee rejects oxycodegol, new opioid designed for less abuse
A novel opioid molecule designed to have less abuse potential with slower CNS entry received a unanimous FDA committee turn down.
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Comorbidity rates remain stable over 10 years in childhood-onset epilepsy
BALTIMORE – Patients with epilepsy are at higher risk of psychiatric comorbidity than are controls, and the rate of...
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Half of SLE patients have incident neuropsychiatric events
Average 8-year follow-up of an international lupus inception cohort showed that 52% developed a neuropsychiatric event.