www.northeastcenter.com Northeast Center for Special CareNortheast Center for Special Care - The latest news and information about brain injury, spinal cord injury, respiratory, ventilator care, rehabilitation and health care<br /> <br /> Visit us on the web www.northeastcenter.com<br /> <br />Head Cases - Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath - A New Podcast- July 2, 2008 Host: Gerry Brooks, MA, CCC, CBIST, Director of Brain Injury Programs, Northeast Center for Special Care Guest: Michael Paul Mason, Author, Brain Injury Case Manager. Time: 26:21 Synopsis: A discussion of the new book Head Cases - Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath, with author Michael Paul Mason. Mr. Mason talks about what led him to write the book. There is a frank discussion of the state of brain injury rehabilitation in the US and suggestions on how people could..http://www.northeastcenter.com/Podcast019.mp3 We will fight for Ambers right to treatment UK- July 2, 2008 THE parents of a terminally ill girl have promised to fight Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust for her right to live. Six-year-old Amber Hartland suffers from a rare brain disorder called Infantile Tay-Sachs, which has left her almost totally paralysed. But Ambers father Nick, 31, said doctors at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, have now told them she is at the end of her life and will not be admitted to intensive care in future.http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/02/we-will-fight-for-amber-s-right-to... 'I Want Help Now' CALIFORNIA- July 2, 2008 With her son lying nearly motionless in a hospital bed in Napa, Teri Peterson looked at the stack of get well cards piling up -- the ones that say, "Call if there is anything I can do" -- and did what most people don't. Her son, a former defensive lineman at Cardinal Newman High School and budding chef, had suffered a massive stroke April 18, two weeks after his 21st birthday.http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080702/news/807020306&tc=yahoo New Drug Application For Inhaled Treprostinil Submitted To The U.S. Food And Drug Administration- July 2, 2008 United Therapeutics Corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lung Rx, Inc., announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing approval of an inhaled formulation of treprostinil (ITRE) for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a chronic, life-threatening disease.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113361.php Pop star's emphysema startles experts- July 2, 2008 The shocking revelation by her father that 24-year-old British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse may have a mild form of emphysema leaves experts with more questions than answers. It's possible that Winehouse, in addition to her well-publicized use of drugs and cigarettes, has a congenital condition that contributed to her current crisis, one lung doctor said. "If you see emphysema in a young person, you have to think of that,'' said Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist with Lenox Hill...http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/LIFE/80630012 Is the Damage from Smoking Permanent- July 2, 2008 Tens of millions of Americans have quit smoking cigarettes. The benefits of quitting - no matter what your age - are prodigious. Risks of heart disease and stroke plummet. So does the risk of lung cancer, along with cancers of the mouth, throat, bladder, cervix and pancreas. But can the damage from smoking ever be completely undone Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, explains.http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1819144,00.html?xid=rss-health Blockade of airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation in a murine model of asthma by insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (igfbp-3)- July 2, 2008 The physiological role of IGFBP-3 in respiratory inflammation and hyperresponsiveness is presently unknown. The present invention is based on the unexpected finding that both wild-type IGFBP-3 and the IGFBP-3 mutant GGG-IGFBP-3 inhibit tissue inflammation and hyperresponsiveness associated with obstructive respiratory disorders such as bronchial asthma.http://www.freshpatents.com/Blockade-of-airway-hyperresponsiveness-and-inflammation-in-a-m... Engraftable neural progenitor and stem cells for brain tumor therapy- July 2, 2008 One of the impediments to the treatment of some human brain tumors (e.g. gliomas) has been the degree to which they expand, migrate widely, and infiltrate normal tissue. We demonstrate that a clone of multipotent neural progenitor stem cells, when implanted into an experimental glioma, will migrate along with and distribute themselves throughout the tumor in juxtaposition to widely expanding and aggressively advancing tumor cells, while continuing to express a foreign reporter gene.http://www.freshpatents.com/Engraftable-neural-progenitor-and-stem-cells-for-brain-tumor-t... China's new law on protection of the disabled effective July 1- July 2, 2008 Several new Chinese laws and regulations, including the amended Law on Protection of the Disabled, will take effect on Tuesday. The amendment is aimed at improving protection of the country's more than 83 million disabled ahead of the 2008 Paralympics in September.http://en.ce.cn/National/Politics/200807/01/t20080701_16018995.shtml Ex-Deputy Makes Deal In Dumped Wheelchair Case FLORIDA- July 2, 2008 The former Hillsborough County deputy who made national headlines after being caught on tape dumping a man from his wheelchair has made a deal with prosecutors.http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2008/6/30/exdeputy_makes_deal_in_dumped_wheelchair_case... |