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The cover for the premier issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery:Spine features an innovative technique to reconnect the head to the neck. Following a serious accident or illness, reattaching the head to the neck has always been a major challenge for surgeons. An Arkansas neurosurgeon's "Inside-Outside" technique can help people with such life-threatening spinal problems.

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A team of Arkansas researchers is one step closer to developing an effective treatment for osteoporosis, a disease responsible for millions of bone fractures worldwide each year. Their findings represent a shift in treatment from slowing bone loss to replacing bone loss.

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Many of the 9,000 deaths and 76 million food-borne illnesses that occur annually in the United States may be prevented in the future by a discovery announced by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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The November 2 cover of The Journal of Clinical Investigation highlights the findings by Arkansas scientists on the mechanism that prevents bone fractures in commonly used medications, such as Fosamax and Miacalcin.

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The center line keeps drivers on the proper side of the road, but some people with brain disorders disregard that center line and drive into the oncoming lane at breakneck speed. No one would choose to do that and those people should not be judged in a court of law, say Arkansas scientist and law professors.

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A research team in Arkansas has shown it may be possible to increase the survival of bone-building cells by manipulating how sex steroids are processed. The research points the way to avoiding many complications with current estrogen hormone replacement therapy. (Cell, 3-9-01)

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Drinking during pregnancy is dangerous and destructive to the fetus. Scientists at UAMS are first to discover that exposure of the developing brain to alcohol damages microglial cells in the brain. For pregnant women, there's no "safe level" of drinking alcohol.

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Scientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are the first to report a possible link between muscle loss and fat gain that may point to ways to reduce frailty in old age.

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Thanks in part to neuroscience researchers in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, a 43-year-old Arizona man is walking again after about a four-year struggle to regain mobility in his legs.

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Dermatologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock have developed a new treatment for common warts that appears to be more successful than any standard method.