This year's American Epilepsy Society meeting merged with the meetings of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy and the Jamaican Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy to become the First North American Regional Epilepsy Congress, the largest medical meeting devoted to epilepsy in the world. This year's American Epilepsy Society meeting merged with the meetings of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy and the Jamaican Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy to...

ABSTRACT Background The combination of intravenous sodium phenylacetate and sodium benzoate has been shown to lower plasma ammonium levels and improve survival in small cohorts of patients with historically lethal urea-cycle enzyme defects. Methods We report the results of a 25-year, open-label, uncontrolled study of sodium phenylacetate and sodium benzoate therapy (Ammonul, Ucyclyd Pharma) in 299 patients with urea-cycle disorders in whom there were 1181 episodes of acute hyperammonemia....

The new, clean diesels will be equipped with soot-cleaning technology and most, if not all, will meet the strictest emissions standards. And there are those who wonder if the new diesels are good and clean enough to get people to forget the diesels of the 1970s and 1980s, with their sooty emissions and, in some cases, very poor reliability. Volkswagen, which for decades has sold diesels here, plans to convert to new cleaner diesel technology starting in 2008. Meanwhile, the growing...

This procedure is successful in about 85 percent of all cases, and is repeatable in cases of failure, provided that a suitable second donor can be located. The function of the kidneys is to filter the blood in the body and to purify it by ridding it of soluble waste products and excess water (which is then eliminated in the form of urine) Kidney Transplantation is the surgical procedure of placing a single, fully functioning kidney into a person with severe kidney failure. Both problems...