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This Is How Much Every Second Counts in Stroke Thrombectomy

Delays until reperfusion cost years of healthy life, meta-analysis suggests

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'It's a Straw-Man Argument': What We Heard This Week

Quotable quotes from 番茄社区's sources

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Chronic Pain Patients Find Relief With Cannabis, Despite Varying Evidence

"The problem is that we cannot find predictors for good responses yet," says pain specialist

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Did Vaping THC 'Wax' for 5 Days Cause This Teen Girl's Seizure?

Evidence for the effect of THC on seizure threshold is conflicting, clinicians say

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Managing Risk of Chronic Post-Surgical Pain: Timing Is Key

Psychological interventions can support other treatment

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Facial Paralysis After COVID-19 Vaccines: What We Know

Analysis suggests no higher safety signal than other vaccines

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Will Telehealth Shape the Future of Pain Care?

Lessons from the pandemic may guide the way pain medicine is delivered

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Bariatric Surgery Promising in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

Significant benefit for women over weight loss program, which went unused by most participants

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COVID-19 Pain Poses Unique Challenges

Neuropathic pain may be common, especially after prolonged ICU stay

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Human IgG1 Antibody Shows Promise in Myasthenia Gravis

Phase III study shows improvements in activities of daily living

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Vaccines and Long COVID: Top NIH Leaders Weigh in at Neurology Meeting

Can research on long COVID help people with chronic fatigue?

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Migraines Bode Poorly for Blood Pressure in Menopausal Women

Migraine medication use, presence of auras made no difference in observational study

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ALS 'Compassionate Use' Again Hits National Media

Expanded access campaigns will only become more frequent with growing rare disease pipelines

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Novel ALS Drug Continues to Show Survival Benefit

Median time to first hospitalization not yet reached with AMX0035 in CENTAUR trial

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COVID Antibody Responses Reduced in Some MS Patients

But T-cell responses were similar, even in patients on ocrelizumab

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COVID Deaths Higher With Neuro Syndromes in Hospitalized Patients

Encephalopathy, coma most prevalent neurologic manifestations

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Blood-Based Markers Tied to Brain Cell and Memory Loss

Another step closer to clinical utility for tracking neurodegeneration

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COVID Stroke Rare in ICU

Ischemic stroke in intensive care didn't raise mortality, but hemorrhagic stroke did

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CaMKII Inhibitor Disappoints in Post-MI Cardioprotection

First agent of its kind to test the waters in heart disease

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New-Onset Neuro Symptoms Common in Kids With MIS-C

Half of pediatric patients in small British study show neurologic involvement

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Dual Targeted Tx a 'Meaningful' Option in BRAF-Mutant Glioma

One-third of glioblastoma patients responded to dabrafenib-trametinib

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Epilepsy Drugs For Newly Diagnosed Patients: What's Best?

Valproate shines in British trial, posing dilemma for younger women

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Comfort Care on the Rise in Acute Stroke

Trends show steep drop in death in-hospital with palliative interventions

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Chronic Sinusitis May Affect Neural Function

Study supports inflammation as link between sinonasal inflammation, cognitive deficits

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Guillain-Barre After COVID-19 Vaccine: Case Report

Clinical trial participant recovered after IVIG treatment

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Cath Lab Team Easily Trained to Do Stroke Intervention

European center reports good results from the start of its endovascular program

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FDA: Arrhythmia Risk With Lamotrigine May Be Class Effect

Agency updates warning for people with cardiac disease taking sodium channel blockers

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Eyes Offer Window Into Cognitive Impairment

Glaucoma study provides more evidence of common neurodegenerative pathway

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Dementia Diagnoses Lag in Ethnic and Racial Groups

Asian, Hispanic, Black people diagnosed at later stages than white people

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Novel Device OK'd to Treat MS Gait Deficits

Tongue stimulator generates pulses to combat ataxia

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Overactive Bladder Drug Gains Pediatric Indication

Mirabegron approved to treat kids with neurogenic detrusor overactivity

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Middle-Age Loneliness Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

Relationship varied, depending on whether loneliness persisted

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Marrow Cell Stimulator to Treat Alzheimer's Disease?

Unusual approach pans out in mid-stage trial

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Bacon and Dementia Risk; Zinc Fingers and Tau; Older Adults Light Up

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Positive Data Salvaged for Thrombectomy on Basilar Strokes

BEST, BASICS trials not wholly negative, group finds

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'They Stopped Treating and the Effect Persisted': What We Heard This Week

Quotable quotes from 番茄社区's sources

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COVID Outcomes Worse for MS Patients With Mobility Problems

North American study also finds higher risk with certain treatments

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Novel Vasoregulator Explored for Acute Ischemic Strokes

Early results may signal benefit for those not treated with thrombectomy

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Class of Cancer Drug Linked to Aneurysms, Artery Dissections

Database analysis finds more reports than expected with antiangiogenic drugs

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Don't Ditch the tPA in Stroke Thrombectomy Yet

Direct endovascular therapy dealt a blow in MR CLEAN-NO IV

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