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08/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy reverses drowned toddler’s brain damage

After Eden Carlson almost drowned in her family’s pool in February 2016, she suffered brain damage that left her immobile and unresponsive to nearly all stimuli. Doctors informed her family that she would remain in that vegetative state for the remainder of her life. A little over a year later, the now-three-year-old Arkansas toddler is […]

03/31/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Doctors turn to a spider’s deadly venom in hopes of treating stroke victims

The venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders could potentially be used by stroke patients to protect against brain damage — although more research is needed before this becomes standard treatment. One bite from the Australian funnel web spider can kill an average-sized human in only 15 minutes. The neurotoxins act on the central nervous […]

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