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INDIA New England News The Harvard Gazette  For patients who have experienced certain common types of stroke, a small chip inserted under the skin may help physicians predict their likelihood of experiencing a second stroke, and therefore their likelihood of benefiting from preventive therapy. The findings come from a recent clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and led by investigators at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)...

Small chip inserted under the skin may help predict the likelihood of recurrent stroke For patients who have experienced certain common types of stroke, a small chip inserted under the skin may help physicians predict their likelihood of experiencing a second stroke, and therefore their likelihood of benefiting from preventive therapy. The findings come from a recent clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and led by investigators at Massachusetts General Ho...

Massachusetts General Hospital For patients who have experienced certain common types of stroke, a small chip inserted under the skin may help physicians predict their likelihood of experiencing a second stroke, and therefore their likelihood of benefiting from preventive therapy. The findings come from a recent clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Northwestern University Feinberg School ...

 E-Mail BOSTON - For patients who have experienced certain common types of stroke, a small chip inserted under the skin may help physicians predict their likelihood of experiencing a second stroke, and therefore their likelihood of benefiting from preventive therapy. The findings come from a recent clinical trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine....

Dozens in a Canadian province face a mysterious brain disorder: ‘The population is in shock’ Updated 3:53 PM; Today 11:30 AM Toxic cyanobacteria from a harmful algal bloom (HAB) turn western Lake Erie water green at the Maumee Bay State Park beach in Oregon, Ohio on Aug. 7, 2019. Researchers in Canada theorize that a toxin produced by cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae blooms, could be the cause of a mysterious brain disease that is afflicting patients in the province of New Brunswick, Ca...

123RF Those afflicted with the condition - called the New Brunswick Cluster of Neurological Syndrome of Unknown Cause, for now - have ranged in age from 18 to 85 (file photo). Alier Marrero is stumped. For years, the neurologist in Moncton, New Brunswick, has seen patients with symptoms common to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain disorder that affects one in 1 million people each year. But diagnostic testing for the rare neurodegenerative syndrome keeps coming back negative, more patie...

increase font size Mysterious, devastating brain disorder afflicts dozens in New Brunswick Across the border in Maine, officials say their disease surveillance and epidemiology teams learned about the cluster in March, but no cases have been reported there. By Amanda ColettaThe Washington Post Alier Marrero is stumped. For years, the neurologist in Moncton, New Brunswick, has seen patients with symptoms common to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain disorder that affects one in 1 million ...

A mysterious, devastating brain disorder is afflicting dozens in one Canadian province Amanda Coletta Alier Marrero is stumped. For years, the neurologist in Moncton, New Brunswick, has seen patients with symptoms common to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain disorder that affects 1 in 1 million people each year. But diagnostic testing for the rare neurodegenerative syndrome keeps coming back negative, more patients with similar symptoms have turned up each year, an...

Symptoms include hallucinations, muscle and brain atrophy and Capgras delusion, a belief that family members have been replaced by impostors.

Michelle Sogge enjoyed hiking before contracting COVID-19. Courtesy of Michelle Sogge Michelle Sogge says when she tested positive for COVID-19 on June 18, she expected she’d need some recovery time. She didn’t foresee being short of breath six months later.  “Up until I got COVID, I was very healthy,” she said. “I was running 10Ks, I was climbing mountains that were 13,000 feet high.” But three months later, long after she stopped testing positive for the virus, the 25-year-old wa...