Researchers have developed engineered human microglia that detect disease-related brain changes and release therapeutic ...

A trip to the emergency room resulted in an MRI, which showed she had a noncancerous spinal cord tumor. Spinal cord tumors make up less than 1% of all newly diagnosed tumors. Dr. Carlos Bagley is ...

When Teresa Janvrin retired in May 2023 from a long, successful teaching career at Warrensburg Middle School, life threw her its biggest challenge yet. Markets plummet as Trump rips Powell Here's ...

Only rarely, however, does such a hemangioma cause spinal-cord compression ... be interpreted grossly as tumor. It seemed as if all tumor was ventral to the cord and for the sake of safety ...

The 58-year-old said she was recently diagnosed with a subependymoma, a type of benign tumor that develops in fluid-filled spaces in the brain. Laidley's tumour is also on her spinal cord ...

Also known as paresthesia, it can stem from infections, spinal injuries, fibromyalgia, and other causes. Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a painful, itchy rash that typically develops on one side of ...

These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot respond to signals from the nerves, they atrophy — weaken and shrink — from inactivity. One in every 6,000 babies is born with ...

This groundbreaking system is forging a new path for individuals facing spinal cord injuries. Individuals like Rick Arnold. "I have MS," said Arnold. "I was diagnosed in 2007." Arnold is rediscovering ...

Researchers at Keio University have begun using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat and maybe even cure severe spinal cord injuries. The iPS technology was first conceived by Shinya ...

Spina bifida is a congenital defect in which an infant's spine and spinal cord do not close or develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine. One of every 3,000 newborns is believed to have ...

Mutations in BRCA2—a gene known to repair damaged DNA and suppress tumor formation—can predict ... associate professor of therapeutic radiology and pathology at Yale, and Eli Rothenberg ...