University of Queensland researchers have made a significant step towards enabling women with epilepsy safer access to a common and highly effective anti-seizure medication. Sodium valproate or ...
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neurological disease caused by reduced survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein levels. There is presently no cure for the condition, although current therapies ...
A recent observational investigation, featured in the peer-reviewed journal Biomedicines, analyzed patient-reported findings ...
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Scientists injected stem cells into fetuses to fix birth defects. Here is what they saw
A research team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento has completed what the institution calls the world’s first treatment combining open fetal surgery with a stem-cell–seeded patch to repair spina bifida ...
About one in every 1,000 people is born with spina bifida, but few develop this specific form of the condition. Reading time 2 minutes Doctors have documented a young boy born with an eye-catching ...
Since people will always have to eat, food remains a veritable tool for preventing diseases and reducing the need for treatment. Spina bifida is, therefore, a good case for using food to prevent the ...
Today marks National Spina Bifida Day, a birth defect that affects roughly 1,500 children in the U.S. every year. Doctors at UTHealth are performing a unique surgery to fix the iss HOUSTON, Texas ...
Women who are obese before they become pregnant may be at an increased risk of having a baby with defects of the brain and spinal cord, especially if they tend to put on weight around the waist. But a ...
Idiopathic spinal cord herniation (ISCH) is displacement of the thoracic spinal cord through a dural defect, giving rise to progressive myelopathy. It most commonly affects middle-aged adults, who ...
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