New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

A team of Australian-led international researchers studying thousands of eyes have found that retinal thickness could be an early indicator of disease ...

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow down your overall risk here.

Tissue engineering is a set of methods that can replace or repair damaged or diseased tissues with natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic tissue mimics. These mimics can either be fully functional ...

Spina bifida, called myelomeningocele, occurs when spinal tissue fails to fuse properly during the early stages of pregnancy. The birth defect can lead to a range of lifelong cognitive, mobility, ...

More research is needed to confirm gray matter, the darker tissue found in the brain and spinal cord, “as a potential disease ...

She said there was extensive haemorrhaging in the tissue around his left cervical spine which extended ... Dr Brett found ...

Cai, now 46, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, back in 2019. As one of the most ...

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Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Engineered extracellular vesicles play an increasingly important role in the treatment of spinal cord injury. In order to prepare more effective ...

A North Dakota family has accused the Mayo Clinic and two of its 'top doctors' of permanently paralyzing their teen daughter during a series of 'botched' spinal surgeries.