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A team of ear, nose and throat specialists and neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of Navarra, led by doctors Manuel Manrique Rodriguez, specialist in ear, nose and throat surgery and Bartolome Bejarano Herruzo, specialist in paediatric neurosurgery, have successfully operated on a 13 month-old girl from Murcia, who had been born deaf due to the lack of auditory nerves. She is the youngest patient in the world who has received an auditory implant in the brain stem.

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Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, has announced the launch of illumin8 (http://www.illumin8.

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GE Healthcare IT announced that Ministry Health Care of Wisconsin and Minnesota has signed a multi-year agreement to implement GE Healthcare’s Centricity Enterprise version 6.1 to improve patient care, increase collaboration between clinicians and provide a better overall healthcare environment.

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From 2001 to 2005, the death rate for minorities in Forsyth County, N.C., was 34% higher among minorities than whites, according to a report from the county health department, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. The

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Worldwide collaborative links between researchers investigating the debilitating neurological condition multiple sclerosis (MS) have been strengthened thanks to the introduction of the first UK and Australian Fellowship Exchange programme.

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Research on autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) shows that neurofeedback (EEG biofeedback) can remediate anomalies in brain activation, leading to symptom reduction and functional improvement. This evidence raises the hopes for a behavioral, psychophysiological intervention moderating the severity of ASD. The research is reviewed in a new article published in the latest issue of Biofeedback.

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Who benefits from antidepressants?A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.”New generation” antidepressants, such as fluoxetine (Prozac) are widely prescribed for the treatment of clinical depression. However some studies have suggested that these drugs do not help the majority of depressed people get better by very much.

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The New York Times on Saturday examined how a “fee-for-service approach has become increasingly common” at college health care centers, which can result in “substantial health fees and out-of-pocket costs” for “parents who are already buying their own insurance.

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As many as half of patients with superficial bladder cancer do not respond to the standard first-line chemotherapy placed into the bladder, according to current multi-center outcomes data. When this happens, typically, their only option is surgical removal of the bladder.

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A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide.In a keynote address to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Professor Noel Sharkey, from the University’s Department of Computer Science, will express his concerns that we are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms race.

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