Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ray Avila lay on the operating table with a messy, fist-size hole in his back, as Dr. Giancarlo Barolat burned flesh, sliced fat and peeled cartilage to make ...

Summary: A multinational clinical trial demonstrated that a novel antibody, NG101, successfully preserves existing nerve tissue and accelerates the regression of spinal cord lesions following acute ...

An international research group recently demonstrated that the antibody NG101 promotes the regeneration of damaged spinal ...

(Reuters Health) - Access to pain relief during childbirth in the U.S. may vary depending on where women live, a study suggests. Researchers who analyzed more than 2.6 million deliveries in 2015 found ...

Pregnancy is a period of joy. However, as exciting as it is, childbirth also comes with pain. Fortunately, modern medicine has a solution. Labour pain today does not have to be painful. Among the ...

An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for those afflicted, no FDA-approved therapy is currently available. Scientists ...

The groundbreaking procedure involved fusing the patient’s back while he was lying face down and completely awake.

A new framework redefines spinal cord injury as a systems-level disruption of the brain–body–environment loop, requiring ...

The selective MAOB inhibitor KDS2010 significantly improved functional recovery in a spinal cord injury animal model. Treated animals showed marked restoration of behavioral scores and locomotor ...

Spinal stenosis occurs when the spaces in your spine narrow, whether from aging, injury, or a medical condition. You may have pain, weakness, or other symptoms if the spinal cord is compressed. The ...