In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

This story may sound graphic, but what we're about to tell you saved a young Rosedale woman's life. Karla Flores, now 20, ...

Learning about the spinal and brain tumors was terrifying ... but they arise from remnants of the notochord, which is the precursor of the spine during fetal development. Dr. Labib said it ...

The coelacanth also retains a notochord—a primitive spinal cord—and an intracranial joint that allows the front part of the skull to move independently from the brain case. These features, preserved ...

This time, the surgeons faced a greater challenge. A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull. After much discussion, the medical team had decided ...

GEOLOGISTS AT MSU FOUND THE LARGEST MOSASAUR BACKBONE EVER UNEARTHED IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, NEAR STARKVILLE. THE SEVEN INCH VERTEBRAE BELONGED TO ONE OF THE LARGEST MARINE REPTILES IN THE ...

David Sample, a sophomore at Walla Walla Valley Academy in College Place, landed awkwardly on April 23, breaking a vertebra in his lower neck. Nearly two weeks later the 16-year-old remains in the ...

When three-year-old Lila, of Menai, was diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer, news spread fast in the community. St George and Sutherland Shire Leader reporter covering education, health and ...

I’m on the waiting list for spinal fusion surgery but read on the NHS website that one of the risks from the op is loss of vision. This has upset me more than the prospect of the surgery itself.