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A lesion is any abnormal tissue found on or in an organism, usually damaged by disease or trauma. Lesion is derived from the Latin word laesio which means injury.

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Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space

Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 8

In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense ...


Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works

Evidence appears to show how and where frontal lobe works

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(Physorg.com) -- A Brown University study of stroke victims has produced evidence that the frontal lobe of the human brain controls decision-making along a continuum from abstract to concrete, from front to ...


Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...


Potential new herpes therapy studied

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new therapy being developed at the University of Florida could, in time, produce another weapon for the fight against herpes.


TB -- hiding in plain sight

Tuberculosis -- hiding in plain sight

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Current research suggests that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can evade the immune response. The related report by Rahman et al, "Compartmentalization of immune responses in human tuberculosis: few CD8+ effector ...


Activated stem cells in damaged lungs could be first step toward cancer

Activated stem cells in damaged lungs could be first step toward cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cells that respond after a severe injury in the lungs of mice may be a source of rapidly dividing cells that lead to lung cancer, according to a team of American and British researchers.


Skin lesion leads to more cancer types than once believed

Skin lesion leads to more cancer types than once believed

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Actinic keratoses are sun-damaged rough patches or lesions on the skin — often pink and scaly — that doctors have long believed can turn into a form of skin cancer known as squamous cell carcinoma.


Oxycodone Effective Against Shingles Pain

Oxycodone Effective Against Shingles Pain

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The painkiller oxycodone is effective at treating the acute pain of shingles, an illness that often causes severe pain which can become long-lasting and sometimes even permanent.


Antioxidant compound reduced incidence of colorectal metachronous adenomas

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Supplementation with a selenium-based antioxidant compound decreased the risk of developing new polyps of the large bowel — called colorectal metachronous adenomas — in people who previously had colorectal polyps removed.


Multiple Sclerosis: new MRI contrast medium enables early diagnosis in animal model

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In an animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS), neuroradiologists and neurologists of the University hospitals of Heidelberg and Würzburg have been able to visualize inflammatory tissue damage, most of which had remained unrecognized ...


Hormone therapy linked to brain shrinkage, but not lesions

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Two new studies show that commonly prescribed forms of postmenopausal hormone therapy may slightly accelerate the loss of brain tissue in women 65 and older beyond what normally occurs with aging.


Advance in bowel cancer test research

Advance in bowel cancer test research

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have developed gene expression biomarkers which can accurately discriminate pre-cancerous and cancerous colorectal growths from non-cancerous controls.


Scientists learn why even treated genital herpes sores boost the risk of HIV infection

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin sores and breaks that ...


Gamma knife treatment for glioblastomas shows promising results

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center report promising results from a cutting-edge research study that treated the aggressive brain tumors glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) using a novel type of imaging called ...


More pain means real gain in complex regional pain syndrome treatment

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The saying "more pain, more gain" may be true for those already in terrible pain due to a chronic and debilitating condition, contrary to received wisdom. For those with Type I Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), working ...