Meningitis symptoms can result from other causes Steroids leave patients' immune systems more vulnerable Meningitis hotline is 800-222-1222 NASHVILLE — As officials attempt to find the way tainted ...

Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to design a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the ...

The tiny skinlike device attaches directly to damaged spinal cords and stimulates them as if they were connected to the brain. Here’s how we might fix spinal injuries in the future: with an implant ...

May 15, 2009 — The Neurological Devices Panel of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of the DuraSeal Xact Sealant ...

The case: A previously healthy 46-year-old man, who works as a standing forklift operator, presented to an emergency department with a 1-day history of bilateral leg “soreness” and numbness in his ...

Doctors dream of helping the paralzyed walk through implants that stimulate their spinal cords, but current technology makes that impossible; these stiff, unnatural gadgets usually end up damaging or ...

A thin and flexible implant that can be applied directly to the surface of the spinal cord to administer electrical and chemical stimulation has been developed by scientists in Switzerland. The e-Dura ...

Spinal implants have suffered similar problems as those in the brain—they tend to abrade tissue, causing inflammation and ultimately rejection by the body. Now an interdisciplinary research ...