A flying puck can cause serious damage to the brain and spine; Are neck guards the answer? Data from rugby provides a ...

Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have uncovered an ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable advancement in treating children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare but ...

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable ...

But advanced prostate cancer, which has spread beyond the prostate to other parts of the body, remains notoriously elusive and resourceful when it’s attacked, resisting surgery and drugs that ...

The anterior cerebral artery supplies blood to parts of the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain. Also known as the ACA, it is one of a pair of arteries essential to delivering oxygen to the brain.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles ... such as ...

Spinal cord compression—also called cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM)— is caused by any condition that puts pressure on the spinal cord. Symptoms may develop suddenly or gradually and may include ...

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — After an emergency blood shortage, the blood supply across the nation is doing okay. Leaders from Vitalant say it’s not at the point where they have four days of blood supply on ...

Both systems are currently being evaluated in spinal cord injury patients, with the goal of restoring limb movement and blood pressure regulation respectively. ARC-EX is a non-implantable counterpart ...

Realizing a Phase I human clinical trial commencing to test the efficacy and safety of the transplantation of olfactory cell nerve bridges to treat chronic spinal cord injury. Since the passing of ...