Neurology News

Bloomberg Philanthropies announced that it has donated $1 billion to make Johns Hopkins University’s medical school free for most of its students seeking an MD.

Treatment with an investigational subcutaneous combination therapy for Parkinson’s disease improved ‘good on’ time by almost 2 hours per day, was safe and efficacious with treatment effect similar across a range of subgroups.

Mission Therapeutics has been awarded $5.2 million from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and Parkinson’s UK to advance a selective, small molecule, brain penetrant USP30 inhibitor for Parkinson’s disease.

Concussions suffered in hockey led to substantial missed playing time, while their physical effects require leagues of all ages to bolster rules, utilize protective equipment and implement high-quality injury protocols to address the issue.

Concussions sustained by 5- to 12-year-old patients are more likely to be the result of recreational play than sports, according to a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Published results showed gender may not be a significant factor in return to learn rates for high school athletes with sports-related concussions.

Like many sports, such as soccer and basketball, financial independence requires simultaneous offense and defense. One of the most important defensive plays a physician must make is buying disability insurance.

Statin initiation in patients with stroke etiologies not indicated for secondary prevention with statin therapy could hypothetically cause thousands of adverse events every year, according to a new meta-analysis published in Stroke.

Although there are no current reliable tests and few treatments for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, which affects about 40,000 individuals in the U.S., recent FDA approvals have made treatments a possibility.

Makeup not only has cosmetic applications, but medical ones too.