When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below ...

Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that arises from abnormal or malignant plasma cells. Normally, a healthy plasma cell is found in bone marrow and is responsible for producing antibodies ...

But at 16, she she suffered a rare spinal cord stroke, leaving her paralyzed below the neck. The sudden change was devastating. “I actually walked into the emergency room,” she says.

The two have been participating in the UAB Spinal Cord Injury Model System (SCIMS) research project for 50 years. The SCIMS was established in 1970 as a prospective longitudinal multicenter study on ...

Patients implanted with a spinal cord simulation system reported less severe pain from baseline to follow up. Treatment also improved sensory nerve function and thermoregulation in extremities.

Neurosurgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore successfully removed a spinal cord tumor through a woman’s eye socket in a landmark case, the Washington Post reported May 4.