Cleveland Clinic
May 24 2006, Pratyush

The Cleveland Clinic and Brown University researchers are studying a brain surgery to stop tremors in Parkinson’s disease patients. It can also treat major depression with potentially serious risks.

The surgery, ‘deep brain stimulation’, uses...

Related Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(0)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
I recently attended an advocacy forum where people are all over the world came together. Where, what and when is irrelevant, but while I was there I got talking to an...
made popular 10 min ago
(1)
Andrew, Tempe
The Los Angeles police chief has raised the prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael Jackson. Homicide does not necessarily mean murder — it could...
made popular Jul 11 2009
(1)
Yoann, Minneapolis
Recently, an Army National Guardsman and Arabic translator who openly challenged the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, was...
made popular Jul 11 2009
(1)
Yvette Carnell, atlanta
The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her...
made popular Jul 11 2009
(2)
Rudolf, New York
Bill O’Reilly needs a hug. But who will oblige him? The Fox News point man needs a hug so desperately that he runs the risk of losing his sanity. All those in show...
made popular Jul 10 2009
(0)
Desh, Shimla
I really regret for not covering this one in atypical housing. The portable at the Lakeshore Catholic High School definitely deserved to be there for a reason or two....
made popular Jul 10 2009
(0)
Chad, Tempe
Police have charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme to dig up graves at a Chicago cemetery in order to resell the plots. Bones from more than 100...
made popular Jul 10 2009
(0)
Chad, Tempe
It has been touted as a successful treatment for everything from insomnia and depression to Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Now supporters of...
made popular Jul 10 2009
(0)
CJ, San Francisco
Two gay men kissed at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster. Civil-rights lawyers say the...
made popular Jul 10 2009
(0)
Shane, Kansas City
U.S. and South Korean computer networks were besieged for days by a series of relatively unsophisticated attacks, possibly from North Korea, that were among the...
made popular Jul 9 2009
(0)
Shane, Kansas City
“We got 30 minutes!” It was 1:30 P.M., half an hour before the start of the commercial salmon-fishing season in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and I was sitting on...
made popular Jul 9 2009
(1)
Brandon, Rochester
Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft. Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web...
made popular Jul 9 2009
(1)
veena, delhi
“I just wanted to say, Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, And I just wanted to say I love him so much”. A...
made popular Jul 9 2009
(1)
Rudolf, New York
During the First World War, his father, Ezeobidi, was drafted to fight for the British crown as a militia in the Cameron. Ezeobidi was conscripted because he had nobody...
made popular Jul 8 2009
(0)
Aditi Justa, Shimla
A study conducted by the New Economics Foundation using the Happy Planet Index determined that Costa Rica is the greenest and the happiest place in the world. The HPI...
made popular Jul 8 2009
(5)
John, New York
President Obama today offered to scrap plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if Russia helped to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb. He appealed in...
made popular Jul 8 2009
(0)
Alex, Portland
We’re just minutes away from the Michael Jackson Memorial of the Century, which we understand will cost Angelenos their public swimming pools and the 710 bus line,...
made popular Jul 8 2009
(3)
Andrea Van, New Providence
Many were stunned by the abrupt resignation of Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin over the weekend. While she says legal troubles are not the primary reason for her...
made popular Jul 8 2009
(2)
Michael Jackson ‘happened’ to me twice—in life, and near death! By: Rajbir Deswal I am more amazed at my association (?) with Michael Jackson who I didn’t...
made popular Jul 8 2009
(2)
Michael Kerjman, The Earth
As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
made popular Jul 8 2009
All Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(0)
AP, Cleveland
The Cleveland Clinic says it may take up to a week to evaluate the injuries a Connecticut woman suffered when a friend’s pet chimpanzee mauled her.
made popular Feb 20 2009
(0)
AP, Stamford
A Connecticut woman critically injured this week by a rampaging chimpanzee has been transferred to the Cleveland Clinic, which two months ago performed the...
made popular Feb 19 2009
(0)
AP, Cleveland
The Cleveland Clinic says a woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation.
made popular Dec 17 2008
(0)
AP,
The Cleveland Clinic says it has done the nation’s first almost total face transplant.
made popular Dec 16 2008
(0)
AP, Cleveland
The Cleveland Clinic says its publicizing the business ties its 1,800 doctors and researchers have with drug companies and device makers.
made popular Dec 3 2008
(0)
AP, Cleveland
Brad Kaster donated a kidney to his father this week, and he barely has a scar to show for it. The kidney was removed through a single incision in his bellybutton, a...
made popular Jul 17 2008
(0)
AP, Cleveland
The Cleveland Clinic, highly regarded for its cardiac care, doesn’t hire smokers or allow trans-fats on its menus, and now it’s joining with a nationally...
made popular Jun 30 2008
(0)
Esther, Delhi
As the US cosmetic surgeons get set to go ahead with face transplantation, the debate between its proponents and opponents seem to have revived once again. Proponents...
made popular Oct 10 2005