Neurology

FDA Approves Seizure Cat to Yawn, Trot Away During Seizures

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WASHINGTON, DC - Following years of testing, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its approval of a novel, groundbreaking technology in the world of seizure detection: the seizure cat. "This particular human-feline interface...
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Hospitalist Consults PT to Assess Unsteady Gate

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VININGS, GA - Concerned that it is now high risk and a fall is imminent, hospitalist Martin Halvorson has asked if physical therapy (PT) could come to his front yard and assess his unsteady...
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Patient Insists It Feels Like Pins Not Needles

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AUSTIN, TX - An unusual case has arisen in the Lone Star state, as a patient at Austin Medical Center (AMC) has both paresthesias and superior powers of perception, insisting that what she feels...
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New Study Describes “Y.M.C.A. Reflex”

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BOSTON, MA—It has been observed for decades and is so commonplace as to almost be an afterthought.  And yet, after a thorough review of the medical literature, Dr. Dick Clark of Doctors University Hospital realized...
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New Seizure Dogs Give Rectal Peanut Butter Diastat

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Amidst the recent overhaul of policies regarding service animals, the National Service Animal Society (NSAS) has announced a new type of service animal who has completed training and is ready to serve: Dogs who...

Breaking: 1 in 500 Can’t Smell What The Rock is Cooking

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HAYWARD, CA - The Rock says it all the time: "Can YA SMELL-LALALALALALALLALALA-OWWWWWW what The Rock…. is cooking?!"  But can everyone smell what The Rock is cooking?  It turns out roughly 1 in 500...

Well-Controlled Epileptic Patient Having 10-12 Well-Controlled Seizures Daily

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ATLANTA, GA - Penny Toein has been having seizures for as long as she can remember. Sometimes as many as 30 seizures a day before she started medications. Today she is happy to report that...

What Do Neurologists Really Put in Those Black Bags?

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It's a curious thing that we've all seen: neurologists going to the office or making the rounds with their leather black bags in tow.  What's in those darned little bags?  Neurologists appear attached to...

Trump Tweets About More Medical Specialties

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President Trump has gone back to Twitter to tweet about some of the specialties he forgot in his first tweetstorm!
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Tips: How to Treat a Pager That Keeps Going Off Like It Has Seizures

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Sadly, despite all the technological advances we've made, a good portion of health care professionals still carry an object as archaic and arguably less useful than an abacus: a pager (also known as the Grim...