(Elsevier) The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies representing more than 30,000 neurosurgeons, 114 individual societies and 100 nations has launched World Neurosurgery, the specialty's first publication acting as a global forum for not only high level peer-reviewed, clinical and laboratory science, but also the social, political, economic, cultural and educational issues that affect research and care delivery regionally and from a global perspective.

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Brief cognitive behavior therapy, problem-solving therapy, and counseling in primary care are all equally effective for treating depression and mixed anxiety and depression. Medscape Medical News

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A team of researchers from several collaborating Baylor University research centers and from Japan's Okayama Graduate School of Medicine have found a way to more consistently isolate pancreatic islet cells from brain dead donors using ductal injection (DI), a process that immediately cools donor islet cells at the injection site...

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Ed Balls has vowed to provide extra funding for school pupils for the next three years, despite the need to cut the deficit.

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(Wiley-Blackwell) A global study of nearly 10,000 women with early breast cancer has found wide variations in how they were treated, despite international consensus on best practice. When researchers compared the women, with an average age of 64, from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, UK/Ireland and the USA, they found significant differences in the percentages of women who received breast conserving surgery -- rather than breast removal -- and radiotherapy after surgery.

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It is hard enough being a teenager or the parent of a teenager without also having to deal with type 1 diabetes. Keeping good control can be a problem when the responsibility for administering insulin and checking blood glucose levels passes from parent to child...

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Since the inception of blood banking, refinements in laboratory processes have allowed for progressively longer storage times of red blood cells (RBCs). Whilst advantageous for the logistics of stock management, the clinical impact of the duration of RBC storage prior to transfusion remains uncertain, and a topic of growing interest. In this issue, Ranucci and colleagues1 report an adverse outcome in infants receiving "older" blood during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).The current standard RBC sto

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The alert (NPSA/2010/RRR008) issued on t...

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33 new pubmed citations were retrieved for your search. Click on the search hyperlink below to display the complete search results: diabetes AND ("last 30 days"[PDat] AND (jsubsetaim[text]) ) These pubmed results were generated on 2010/02/25PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full

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Consuming a diet that is low in carbohydrate could be more effective at reducing blood pressure than weight loss pills.

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Research published today examining consu...

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Norwegian health authorities said on Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected. Reuters Health Information

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The Iraq inquiry begins its much-awaited public hearings today, as Britain seeks to learn the lessons from its involvement in the US-led 2003 effort to oust Saddam Hussein.

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The US lifts a 22-year immigration ban that stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country.

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Urgent change is needed to reform the House of Commons, an influential committee of MPs concluded today.

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A 12-year study in middle-aged adults suggests that knee pain is frequently the first sign of knee osteoarthritis. Reuters Health Information

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Viral infection precedes an unexpectedly large proportion of childhood pneumonia cases.

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An older person's usual walking speed is "strongly associated with mortality," Dr. Kate Machacova of Wayne State University in Detroit reported Friday at the Gerontological Society of America's annual meeting in Atlanta. Reuters Health Information

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AES Annual Meeting, Booth #901-- Cyberonics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYBX) announced that Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) Therapy, the only FDA-approved implantable medical device for the treatment of refractory epilepsy, will be featured in 14 presentations at the American Epilepsy Society's (AES) Annual Meeting, taking place December 4-8 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts...

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The article explains in detail about dia...

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"Why doesn't she age?" Howard Greenberg,...

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H1N1 pandemic flu is spreading in India, Thailand and Vietnam with the onset of Asia's monsoon season, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information

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Andrew Dillon Chief Executive of NICE comments on recent US reports about NICE

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Monthly injections of golimumab, either alone or with methotrexate (MTX), may reduce the signs and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in MTX-naive patients, the results of an ongoing phase III trial suggest. Reuters Health Information

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I've tried, but I don't seem to have it. Much as I'd like to return to the sort of writing I was doing earlier in Surgeonsblog, it's not happening. It's as if I'm in a darkened house with many rooms, but all the doors are locked. In a deja vu sort of way, I know there is stuff behind the doors, but it's inaccessible. Familiar, yet out of reach.Re-reading old posts, I feel envious of the person who was able to write them, and of the good I feel it did, not to mention the wider world it created fo

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