A guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society aims to help physicians diagnose the causes of status epilepticus, a state of continuous seizures, in children, many of whom have epilepsy. The...

A brand approach to treating severe nerve pain - by aiming drugs at a previously unrecognized molecular target - has been discovered by University of Utah scientists who study the venoms of deadly, sea-dwelling cone snails. "We found a...

At the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in San Francisco Nov. 13-17, Stanford University researchers reported advances in areas such as health, clean energy, electronics and nanotechnology. ''The paper...

A study of healthy women has harvested results involving fatigue and vigor that eventually may help researchers fine tune efforts to treat a multitude of illnesses and syndromes linked to low levels of the stress hormone cortisol. That low...

Influenza vaccine is associated with a small but increased risk for hospitalization with the potentially debilitating neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barre syndrome, although the absolute risk associated with the vaccine is very lo...

Six million years ago, chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor and evolved into unique species. Now UCLA scientists have identified a way to pinpoint the genes that separate us from our closest living relative - and make...

Dogs with Duchenne muscular dystrophy experienced a return of muscle strength after receiving stem cell therapy, say scientists from Italy and France. Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects about one in every 3,500 male humans - a genetic mut...

A peptide known to play a role in anxiety is overly plentiful in a mouse model of the inherited neurological disorder Rett syndrome and appears to underlie the anxiety-like behavior in these mice, said researchers from Baylor College of Me...

A combined analysis of two landmark clinical glaucoma trials -- the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) and the European Glaucoma Prevention Study (EGPS) -- confirms the benefit of a five-year risk assessment model to help ophthalmo...

An independent research study has found VitalStim(R) Therapy to be superior to traditional therapies in the treatment of dysphagia, a swallowing disorder affecting 15 million Americans. First presented by Peter C. Belafsky, MD, PhD of the...