December 2010 Blog Posts (5)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A VERY BRIGHT AND PROSPEROUS 2011 to all of the members of the Ariane Thomas-Lutchmedial Foundation website from the Board of Directors of the Foundation. We wish you and your families peace and blessings and the best of health and happiness in 2011 and forward.

Thank you for your continued support as we look forward to helping many families in the New Year and for many years to come.

The Board of Directors

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Added by Carol McCrae on December 28, 2010 at 9:29am — No Comments

First baby given xenon gas to prevent brain injury

A newborn baby has become the first in the world to receive xenon gas treatment, pioneered in Bristol in a bid to prevent brain injury.

Riley Joyce had no pulse and was not breathing when he was first delivered by emergency Caesarean section at the Royal United Hospital, Bath.

He had a 50:50 chance of permanent brain injury and was transferred to St Michael's Hospital, Bristol.

His parents agreed to the experimental treatment and Riley is now doing… Continue

Added by carlstien on December 9, 2010 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Kids' brain injuries from basketball may be rising

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly 400,000 U.S. children and teenagers go to the emergency room for basketball-related injuries each year -- with the number of concussions and other brain injuries on the rise in recent years, researchers reported Monday.

Using government data collected from a national sample of U.S. hospitals, the researchers estimate that more than 4.1 million kids between the ages of 5 and 19 visited an ER for a basketball injury between 1997 and… Continue

Added by carlstien on December 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Adapted MRI Scan Improves Picture of Changes to the Brain

ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2010) — Standard MRI scans have so far been unable to produce satisfactory images of nerve bundles. However, this is now possible using an MRI technique called Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). Matthan Caan succeeded in improving the DTI method during his PhD research at TU Delft, enabling him to produce more accurate images of the damage that radiotherapy and chemotherapy cause in young leukaemia patients.

With MRI, images can be obtained of various parts of the… Continue

Added by carlstien on December 9, 2010 at 3:28pm — No Comments

New Mechanism Links Cellular Stress and Brain Damage

ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2010) — A new study uncovers a mechanism linking a specific type of cellular stress with brain damage similar to that associated with neurodegenerative disease. The research, published by Cell Press in the Dec. 9 issue of the journal Neuron, is the first to highlight the significance of the reduction of a specific calcium signal that is directly tied to cell fate.

Body cells are constantly exposed to various environmental stresses. Although cells possess some… Continue

Added by carlstien on December 9, 2010 at 3:26pm — No Comments