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Stroke researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy
Gene Therapy for Human Skin Disease Produces Long-term Benefits
Surgery beats chemotherapy for tongue cancer, Study finds

Stroke researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 11:12 AM PST

Stroke rehabilitation researchers report improvement in spatial neglect with prism adaptation therapy. This new study supports behavioral classification of patients with spatial neglect as a valuable tool for assigning targeted, effective early rehabilitation. Results of the study, “Presence of motor-intentional aiming deficit predicts functional improvement of spatial neglect with prism adaptation” DOI: 10.1177/1545968313516872 were published ahead of print in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair on December 27, 2013.

Gene Therapy for Human Skin Disease Produces Long-term Benefits

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 11:07 AM PST

Stem cell-based gene therapy holds promise for the treatment of devastating genetic skin diseases, but the long-term clinical outcomes of this approach have been unclear. In a study online December 26th in the ISSCR's journal Stem Cell Reports, published by Cell Press, researchers evaluated a patient with a genetic skin disorder known as epidermolysis bullosa (EB) nearly seven years after he had undergone a gene therapy procedure as part of a clinical trial.

Surgery beats chemotherapy for tongue cancer, Study finds

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 11:02 AM PST

Patients with tongue cancer who started their treatment with a course of chemotherapy fared significantly worse than patients who received surgery first, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.