Cooling Brings No Benefit to Kids with Head Trauma

Department of Defense awards $35M to support local brain injury ...
(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Of the more than 1.5 million people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year in the...

Mortality Advantage for Epidural Anesthesia Called Marginal
TORONTO -- Epidural anesthesia was associated with only slightly improved mortality following complex surgery, but it has other pluses over...

Minimally Invasive Approach Comparable to Open Surgery for Aneur...
CLEVELAND -- For repair of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms, an endovascular approach and open surgery were comparable in the risk...

HIV Microbicide May Have Raised Infection Risk
ARLINGTON, Va. -- A vaginal gel designed to prevent HIV infection was ineffective and may have increased the risk of infection, according to final...

Nutritional Support Linked to Lower Brain Trauma Mortality
NEW YORK -- The traumatically injured brain apparently needs early high-calorie nutritional support, according to investigators here.