Chad Bouton, the vice president of advanced engineering at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, ...

Trinity Brooks wasn’t sure what was happening when, during a recent dinner date, her boyfriend, Michael Maze, began lowering ...

Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease treatment Ultomiris® (ravulizumab rch) has become the first targeted treatment option to be reimbursed for people ...

The organization was launched after Jim Brady, Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, was shot and paralyzed in an assassination attempt on the former president. It has long understood the importance of ...

Many have become wheelchair bound ... “The polio patients couldn’t move because their neuromuscular systems weren’t firing,” Strasser said. “The children experienced a sort of paralysis.” Still others ...

Although scientists said larger clinical trials will be needed, the early results point to a 50-50 chance that this treatment could restore a paralyzed patient's ability to move again.

"With more training, we hope ALS patients will not only be able to communicate daily needs, but also create poetry, expressing their sentiments and feelings," Zhao said. In other clinical trials, two ...

It’s possible the patients experienced a natural recovery, says St John. In 2019, roughly 0.9 million people globally experienced a spinal-cord injury, and some 20 million people were living ...

"The investigation started when Third Precinct detectives received tips that Carranza had injured several patients and, in one case, caused severe nerve damage that led to partial facial paralysis ...

A research team in Japan unveiled Friday that two of four paralyzed patients who received transplantations of cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells saw improvement in their motor ...

TOKYO, March 22 — A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There ...