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...While seemingly unrelated, the Iowa outbreak renewed the debate about whether there was a link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism, a developmental disease resulting from a disorder of the central nervous system. In 1998 a smallish study of 12 autistic children raised questions about a connection, but subsequent studies have cast doubt on any relationship between the vaccine and autism, which, according to the National Institute of Health, affects 2-6 children per 1000. Still, examining search phrases that contained "autism" during the peak weeks around early May 2006 revealed that Internet searchers' concern about...
...stress, alcohol), no one's really sure what exactly causes the condition in the first place. The headaches can last hours - sometimes days - and often come with nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to sound and light, and, perhaps most strangely of all, distorted sensory perception, especially vision. Add to that a link with certain other blood conditions and neurological conditions, and it's no surprise that researchers are still perplexed about the headaches - or that patients seem to find treatment so hit-and-miss...
...second paper, published in Neurology this past week, finds that middle-schoolers who suffer from migraines with aura are more likely than their peers to suffer from depressive disorders or anxiety disorders - and to be at risk of suicide. While the link between the conditions is poorly understood, the paper, which followed 8,000 youths, notes that altered levels of serotonin - a neurotransmitter affecting mood and appetite - have an impact both on migraine headaches and affective disorders. The study doesn't suggest that migraines make kids suicidal. But it does show that kids with migraines are more likely...
...more likely to have had a stroke by the time they were discharged than those without. Stroke wasn't the only vascular condition in pregnancy to be more common among migraine sufferers. The results, presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, showed a link between migraine and everything from heart attack to preeclampsia. There was no association with non-vascular conditions, like pneumonia or post-partum infection. "This lends credibility to the vascular mechanism of migraines," says lead researcher Cheryl Bushnell, an assistant professor in neurology at Duke. It's also generally recognized that...
...present capacity as FAS secretary, Fithian acts primarily as the link between the FAS dean and the Faculty Council, the Faculty’s 18-member governing body...