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| • | *Colorado Delays Action on Bill to Raise Limits for Malpractice Suits
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| • | *Doctors Rally For a Remedy
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| • | *Wife of ex-Cowboys RB Ron Springs sues doctors
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| • | SJC decision could further chill medical practice...More.... |
| • | Damages ruling spells deep cuts at OHSU...More.... |
| • | Captive Audience: MDs Fighting Back on Malpractice...More.... |
| • | AANS, CNS and AMA Conducting Physician Practice Information Survey...More.... |
| • | New York’s Malpractice Crisis Heading towards “disaster.”...More.... |
| • | Medicare Participation Options for Physicians 2008...More.... |
| • | Current Washington Committee Report...More.... |
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Long-term Seizures and Quality of Life After Epilepsy Surgery Compared with Matched Controls
Stavem, Knut MD, MPH, PhD; Bjornaes, Helge PhD; Langmoen, Iver A. MD, PhD
OBJECTIVE: We compared long-term seizure outcome and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients who underwent epilepsy surgery and matched medically treated nonsurgical controls with intractable epilepsy. More...
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Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury in Primates
This article reviews the work the Nishimura et al. recently published in Science (Science 318:1150-1155, 2007 ). The authors investigated the process of
recovery following incomplete spinal cord injury in a primate model. They used positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning to assess areas of
cerebral function at different stages during the recovery process. They trained monkeys to accomplish complex reaching and grasping tasks.
This was followed by surgical lesioning of the corticomotoneuronal tracts at C4-C5, which resulted in a loss of hand dexterity. Pre- and postlesioning
PET scans were obtained and compared to ascertain which areas showed increased brain activation during the grasping tasks.
The researchers found that, compared with prelesioning, the contralateral primary motor cortex (Co-M1) area of activation was expanded in
topography and there was activation of the ipsilateral premotor cortex (ip-PMv). More...
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