Malibu dentist aims to ban mercury amalgam fillings (3) Oct 25, 2009
Inflammation caused by mercury and other dental metals is frequent in patients with neurologic diseases such as multiple sclerosis or collagenous diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Patients suffering from CFS is another category with frequent metal allergy-mostly to nickel and mercury. (Malibu Times, CA)
Swine Flu's Intensive-Care Cases Surge 15-Fold, Revealing Winter's Toll Oct 9, 2009
About 73 percent were pregnant or had underlying conditions including asthma, diabetes, heart, lung and neurologic diseases. To contact the reporters on this story: in New York at. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Interleukin-17 and Type 17 Helper T Cells Aug 27, 2009
From the Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, H pital Edouard Herriot, University of Lyon, Lyon, France (P.M.); the Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany (T.K.); and the Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (V.K.K.). Drs. (New England Journal of Medicine)
12 surprising signs youll live to 100 Aug 15, 2009
"What surprised us is that the runners didn't just get less heart disease they also developed fewer cases of cancer, neurologic diseases, and infections," says study author Eliza Chakravarty, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. "Aerobic exercise keeps the immune system young." If you don't like to run, even 20 minutes a day of any activity that leaves you breathless can boost your health, she says. (MSNBC -- Health)
New Mechanism For Amyloid Beta Protein's Toxic Impact On The Alzheimer's Brain Jul 7, 2009
"Given the mounting evidence that small soluble A? assemblies mediate synaptic impairment in AD, elucidating the precise molecular pathways by which this occurs has important implications for treating and preventing the disease," explains senior study author, Dr. Dennis Selkoe from the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Selkoe, Dr. Shaomin Li, and colleagues examined regulation of a cellular communication phenomenon known as long-term... (Science Daily)
Glutamate Identified As Predictor Of Disease Progression In Multiple Sclerosis May 8, 2009
In excess, it triggers a cascade of negative reactions in the brain leading to many of the complications associated with neurologic diseases such as MS, Parkinson's disease, stroke, ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease) and Alzheimer's disease by destroying nerve cells and causing seizures, injury after stroke, and the perception of pain, among other problems ... The finding, Pelletier says, goes beyond MS. "Now that we have those markers, we can quantify levels of... (Science Daily)
Big bald Bruins Apr 9, 2009
Present were Randy Buckner, director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory; Robert Green of the BU School of Medicine's department of neurology, genetics and epidemiology; Dr. Dennis Selkoe, co-director of the center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Dr. Reisa Sperling, director of Brigham and Women's Clinical Research, Memory Disorders Unit; and Dr. Philip Wolf, professor of neurology, medicine, and public health at BU. The show debuts May 10. Names can be reached at... (Boston Globe)
New Insights Into How Brain Responds To Viral Infection Apr 2, 2009
There also may be broader implications for the treatment of a wide range of immune-mediated neurologic diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. Other members of the research team at the Mailman School of Public Health include Mady Hornig, MD, associate professor of Epidemiology and director of translational research at the Center for Infection and Immunity, and Kavitha Yaddanapudi, PhD, postdoctoral research scientist. (Science Daily)
