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Ohio girl's life saved by Natasha Richardson tragedy

When a hit in the head with a baseball brought on headaches in a young Ohio girl, doctors diagnosed her with an epidural hematoma, the same injury that eventually killed Richardson. Rushed to UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Dr. Alan Cohen, chief of pediatric neurosurgery, performed a successful operation on the little girl, who is now home recovering after a 5-day stay.

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Friday, March 27, 2009 (411 reads)
New Alzheimers drug being tested in Cleveland

University Hospitals in Cleveland is one of 200-sites across the country participating in the clinical trial of a new drug that could slow progression of Alzheimers. University Hospitals Case Medical Center neurologist Dr. Alan Lerner was interviewed.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 (112 reads)
Local boy survives head injury similar to actress Natasha Richardson's

Thirteen-year-old Brandon Brown is recovering from brain surgery. Last Sunday he wiped out after a skateboard and cracked the back of his head on concrete... An epidural hematoma is a blood clot that's inside the skull outside the brain and it can do its damage because the brain is in the skull, it's an enclosed compartment. And so as a blood clot expands it compresses the brain," Dr. Alan Cohen at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital said.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 (108 reads)
New test to detect Alzheimer’s early – Dr. Alan Lerner interviewed

It’s important to recognize, there's many parallel studies going on based on the same database including some in Cleveland. Dr. Alan Lerner is a neurologist at the University Hospitals. He says local volunteers helped make the break by consigning to spinal taps. Fluid that contains the protein bio markers that makes their way and...

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 (100 reads)
Dr. Michael DeGeorgia, Director of the Neurocritical Care Center, speaks on the death of Natasha Richardson

...actress Natasha Richardson ...broad speculation she suffered from a talk and die syndrome. We have the director of the critical care center at University Hospitals. ... Dr. Michael DeGeorgia...This can happen after an epidural hematoma. It sounds like she had that...

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 (108 reads)
Dr. Alan Lerner’s research to be highlighted at 61st American Academy of Neurology annual meeting

Dr. Alan Lerner’s abstract 806AAN09D1 titled Usage of Pharmacological Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease: Associations of Race and Demographic Variables, will be highlighted in the presentation “Combined Scientific Topic Highlights” at the 61st American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. The presentation will take place Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 7-8 pm as part of the April 25–May 2 annual meeting in Seattle.



Thursday, March 26, 2009 (218 reads)
University Hospitals Peter Whitehouse named as one of the Top Alzheimer’s disease investigators

Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., a neurologist in the University Hospitals Neurological Institute, has been ranked as one of the top 100 research investigators in Alzheimer’s disease according to a study conducted by Collexis Holdings, Inc., and published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. (March edition, Vol. 16, Issue 3). He was ranked 69th . He was one of only three researchers from Ohio ranked in the study.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 (286 reads)
Dr. Nick Bambakidis speaks on the death of Natasha Richardson and “Talk and Die” syndrome

WJW Fox 8 in the Morning ... Here to tell us about that particular syndrome is Dr. Nick Bambakidis a neurologist with University Hospitals. So many people talking about it and in shock about her death. She was on a beginner hill and went back to her hotel room and a couple hours later on life support. Tell us how common it is...

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (133 reads)
When Is the Right Time to Turn Off Life Support?

...If you were placed on life support, who would you want to be your legal representative? And when is the right time to pull the plug? These issues usually come into play unexpectedly, as actress Natasha Richardson’s family found out this week when a skiing accident reportedly left the Tony award-winner was taken off of life support Wednesday night. ... Brain death is very different from being in a vegetative state, said Dr. Michael DeGeorgia, professor of neurology and director of the Center for Neurocritical Care of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, which is associated with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (117 reads)
Team members from the Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center present at the 2009 International Stroke Conference

The 2009 International Stroke Conference (ISC) was held in February 2009 and featured oral and poster presentations from members of the Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (320 reads)
University of Florida doctors first in state to perform procedure pioneered at University Hospitals Case Medical Center

An electronic breathing device – the same kind that actor Christopher Reeve used after suffering a traumatic spinal cord injury – was implanted today in a patient at Shands ...Assisting the UF doctors was Dr. Raymond Onders, a surgeon from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio. He pioneered and used the then-experimental device in Reeve’s 2003 procedure.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 (114 reads)
Hyperbaric Autism Treatment Shows Possible Promise

To battle her son's autism, Kazuko Curtin did more than look into a treatment -- she started a clinic for it. Twelve years ago, Curtin was told by doctors that her son had autism. In subsequent years, while attending conferences, she heard about treatment in a hyperbaric chamber, where pressure is increased in an attempt to boost the amount of oxygen in the child's brain. ... "I am concerned that the data don't support the authors' conclusions," said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist at the Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland. ... "This is purely speculative and not really supported by the references they cite. The authors appear to be 'stretching' the contents of the references beyond the original intent," Wiznitzer said. ...

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 (108 reads)
Infant in Claridon Township bus collision pulls through in 'miracle' recovery

When the car carrying 6-month-old Peyton Alexandra Moodt slid sidelong into the oncoming lane and into the path of a school bus on Feb. 4, the infant car seat that cradled the baby didn't survive. ... By the time the ambulance arrived at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland that afternoon, Peyton was comatose and pale from internal bleeding.
When pediatric neurosurgeon Shenandoah Robinson met with Peyton's parents, "there wasn't a lot of confidence in her voice," recalled the baby's mother, Melissa Smallwood. ... "It's unusual that a baby with such a severe head injury could survive and make such a remarkable recovery," Robinson said. "A lot of our babies don't make it."

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 (132 reads)