What if a headset could make surgery safer, faster, and less physically taxing? Surgeons are embracing DigiLoupes, a powerful ...

When it comes to playing Superman, there’s something about the role that seems larger than life—strength, honor, charm and that ever-present sense of responsibility. But behind the capes and iconic ...

A 25-year-old athletic woman dies of a rare bone cancer less than a year after her condition of constant back pain was misdiagnosed as sciatica. Kate Drummond, a fitness enthusiast who used to run ...

Like a real-life Ironman suit, metal armor wraps around ... people with conditions like muscle atrophy, weak knees, spinal cord injuries, and even fatigue that developed from long COVID.

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

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

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.

Hongkongers with spinal cord injuries may have a chance to regain mobility with the help of advanced therapy products developed by a new laboratory at Polytechnic University (PolyU), with clinical ...