Researchers have identified a potential treatment for Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases -- two rare, often fatal lysosomal storage disorders that cause progressive damage to nerve cells in the brain and ...

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

Alpana Sharma, founder-director of CureSMA, a parent-led advocacy group, urges the government to include medicines for SMA in ...

A professor of orthopedic surgery at Atrium Health is working to better understand spinal injuries. Active-duty United States ...

Every time you bend your neck and for every inch you bend, it can double or triple the load on the cervical spine. The nerves ...

Approximately 5,000 people in the U.S. develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. On average, they survive for only two to five years after being diagnosed, according to the Centers for ...

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that may trigger ALS’s earliest stages, identifying proteins that mislocalize, causing ...

Approximately 5,000 people in the U.S. develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) each year. On average, they survive for ...

As the global medical community observes World Spine Day 2024 under the theme "Support Your Spine," healthcare professionals ...

Posterior annular tears, ruptures in the spine's intervertebral discs, commonly arise from aging or external stressors. These ...