News tagged with 'Spinal Cord'

Researchers from the University of Rochester believe there may be a way to reduce damage in a spinal cord injury, if a form of blue dye is injected almost immediately. The downside is that you may turn blue temporarily.

A Dallas Cowboys staff member was left paralyzed and two other team staffers remain hospitalized following the facility collapse on Saturday, which is now the subject of a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation, authorities said.

You’ve seen the warning lights in the airplane bathroom during turbulence,“Return to your Seat".  A Texas woman was thrown into the ceiling and broke her neck during a Saturday flight over Houston. She suffered the same sort of break as the late actor Christopher Reeve and is undergoing surgery to try and correct the paralysis. 

The numbers are astonishing and about 40 percent more than previously thought. More than 5 million live with some paralysis and are fighting with not only their condition but frequently with access to resources, jobs, insurance, and rehabilitation, making this a civil rights issue says the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.  

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman who pulled her friend out of a car after an accident isn't immune from civil liability because the care she provided wasn't medical.

Epsom salts can cut the rates of preterm labor and therefore reduce the risk of the delivery of brain damaged children, a study finds. This study replicates those from an Australian study in 2003.

50,000 returning U.S. veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting at least 9 percent have post-traumatic stress disorder. Other reports say the numbers are higher.

New Research Identifies Genes Linked to Multiple Sclerosis Updated July 2007: Researchers have made a significant advance in understanding multiple sclerosis , which is a neurological disorder in which the nerves of the eye, brain and spinal cord lose myelin. Multiple sclerosis can have symptoms fro

Harvard University researchers have linked the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in women to Epstein-Barr, a virus known to cause mononucleosis. High levels of antibodies to the Epstein-Barr virus, which infects ninety-five percent of the population by age forty, may increase a woman's chance of developing MS.