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| CogniFit to Provide Special Pricing on its Personalized Brain Fitness Software for Aging with Grace Members, Business Partners and Affiliates |
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| After hosting four Radiant Health Training Retreats in the past year, The Expanding Light Retreat in northern California reports extraordinary improvements in the health and well-being of the guests who participated. |
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| LegalView informed traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients of a new treatment approved by the FDA that is being studied and may offer TBI victims an improved outcome after being injured. The treatment uses a device known as the ThermoSuit System, which induces rapid cooling in a brain injured victim. |
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| The Migraine Research Foundation (MRF), the largest nonprofit funder of migraine research in the United States, today announced the winners of its second round of grants intended to spur innovation in migraine research. The grants totaled $200,000. The grantees were screened by MRF's medical advisory board, which is composed of leading scientists and clinicians from across the country. This year's grantees will investigate estrogen and migraine, mapping changes in brain circuits during a migraine, the effect of opioids on migraine, and building a DNA library of migraine sufferers. |
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| Researchers met in Maine to continue efforts to understand how Wild Blueberries prevent and/or forestall age-related diseases. Results of clinical trials shared at the 11th annual Wild Blueberries Health Research Summit revealed implications for brain health, investigations into antioxidant effects at the cellular level, and effects of blueberries on insulin sensitivity, markers of oxidative stress, and inflammation and cognitive performance. |
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| Children's recording artists Robin And The Giant have written and recorded a song that tells the true story, in ballad form, of Walter Marino and his 12-year-old son Christopher, who spent an entire night treading water eight miles out at sea in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. The duo hope that the song will help raise awareness for the need to fund schools for autistic children so that those children may be better prepared as adults to live independent lives. |
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| A new form of patented "micro" breast implants would significantly increase the number of women seeking breast enhancement surgery. A research report shows that over 60% of women in the study indicated they would prefer the micro-implants. They could dramatically reduce incision size, cut post-operative pain, and result in a far more natural-looking appearance," explains Dr. Wm. Brennan, Vanderbilt surgeon who invented and patented the new micro-implant design. |
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| Veteran Fundraising executive Maggie Schmidt has been named Executive Director of the Parkinson Foundation of Western Pennsylvania. Her responsibilities will include directing the Foundation's fundraising initiatives, supporting research for the development of new therapies and enhancing outreach and support for those suffering from Parkinson's Disease, as well as their families and caregivers. |
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| Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the real issues of autism in her innovative book The Way I See It (Future Horizons, ISBN 9781932565720, $14.95, paperback, September 2008). |
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| Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 7,396,654 B2 “Neural Proteins as Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury,” licensed exclusively by Banyan Biomarkers from the University of Florida. Specifically, the patent covers the detection of certain neuronal protein markers found in the blood of patients suffering from neural injury and / or neuronal damage. The patent also covers certain sensitive and rapid methods and test kits that can be used as tools for the diagnosis of neural injuries and/or neuronal... |
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