Mayfield Brain & Spinal Column
Official Blog of Mayfield Brain & Spine
By Donald Carruthers, MD The results of the PRECISION trial (Prospective Randomized Evaluation of Celecoxib Integrated Safety vs. Ibuprofen Or Naproxen) warrant a reevaluation of prescribing habits for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
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James T. Rutka, MD, PhD, the R.S. McLaughlin Professor & Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurosurgery, on Friday gave a
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Kim Burchiel, MD, the John Raaf Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, is challenging the long-held belief that trigeminal neuralgia is caused by
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Doctors who treat life-threatening strokes by threading catheters and devices up from the groin into the brain have long believed they could save more lives if only they could safely grab hold
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Every year neurosurgeons treat nearly 17,000 brain aneurysms in the United States by placing a metal clip across the aneurysm’s neck. The metal clips, which are made of titanium or a metal
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Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and the 2014 Mayfield Lecturer, inspired an audience of faculty and neurosurgery residents Friday by illuminating the promise
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John M. Tew, Jr., MD, a Mayfield Clinic neurosurgeon and Great Living Cincinnatian, issued a call to action to health care providers Thursday night in his keynote address at the Cincinnati Business
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Andrew Ringer, MD, a neurosurgeon with the Mayfield Clinic and Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is featured in Cincinnati Magazine’s Top Doctors issue this month
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Jed Hartings, PhD, has traveled the world as a researcher for the Mayfield Clinic and the University of Cincinnati Department of Neurosurgery. In the last two years alone he has traveled to
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Physicians who diagnose a concussion are often seeing “only the tip of the iceberg,” says Chad Farley, MD, who graduates this spring from the six-year residency training program of the University of
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By Jed Hartings, PhD President Obama’s Brain Activity Map project is a visionary proposal to understand the workings of the human brain’s 100 billion neurons and their connections to each other. Although
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Videos of presentations given at the Silent Wounds of War are now available for viewing on the Mayfield Clinic’s Web site >> General Peter Chiarelli (retired), former Vice Chief of Staff for
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