Neurology News

Biopharmaceutical company DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc. announced that the FDA placed a clinical hold on its phase 2/3 ReMEDy2 trial of a synthetic protein therapy for treatment of acute ischemic stroke.

Cerebrospinal fluid diversion was not associated with improved outcome for children following a traumatic brain injury. However, a decrease in intracranial pressure was observed, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

There are no activities that are completely risk free. Whether a person decides to eat, drive or sky dive, there is some level of risk involved.

Dementia cases in the United States were largely associated with modifiable risk factors, such as hypertension, obesity and physical inactivity — especially among Black and Hispanic people, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Transdermal CBD was well tolerated and safe among those with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, although no efficacy was observed compared with placebo during a 12-week treatment period, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Postmenopausal women had a greater burden of white matter hyperintensity — or WMH — compared with men and premenopausal women, as well as a faster increase in WMH, according to a cross-sectional analysis of the Rhineland Study.

Oral contraceptive use and hormone therapy were associated with an increased risk for stroke, according to study findings published in Stroke.

Researchers estimated that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, among children and adolescents in the United States was 3.14% in 2019 and 2020 overall, up from 2.24% in 2014.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Higher sleep scores were associated with lower mortality hazard, according to a study presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.

The NIH has awarded researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign more than $420,000 to develop ultrasound imaging methods to study neurovascular changes underlying Alzheimer’s disease.