A mother and son flew 9,000 miles to seek care for his spinal condition after they'd exhausted options in their home country.

Researchers have uncovered a surprising new role for netrin1, a crucial protein in neural development, as a regulator that limits bone morphogenetic protein signaling in the developing spinal cord.

Everything is connected. Our efforts to move and improve generate multiple cascading responses within our bodies that can ...

In a remarkable scientific achievement, Gert-Jan Oskam, a man paralyzed for over a decade, has regained the ability to walk ...

which would accelerate its fusion with a donor’s spinal cord.” Allen Furr, Ph.D., professor emeritus of sociology at Auburn University, who wrote a book, A Test of Morals: The Surgical, Ethical, and ...

University of Tennessee researchers are developing a noninvasive method to study brain chemicals, aiming to advance ...

Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute has been at the forefront of spine care, and recently a team partnered with Thomas Jefferson University Hospita ...

In a new study, researchers at McMaster University have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs ...

Immune-cell therapy shrank children's brain tumors, restored neurologic function and—for one participant—erased all ...

A team of researchers led by Rice University's Jacob Robinson and the University of Texas Medical Branch's Peter Kan has ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at McMaster University have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases—two rare, often fatal lysosomal storage disorders that cause ...

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when ...