Thanks to new high-frequency electrical stimulation that blocks spasticity, two paralyzed patients suffering from muscle ...

A UB researcher working on Krabbe disease has been awarded a grant from the Rosenau Family Research Foundation to investigate how an enzyme deficiency in the brain causes this disease, which is ...

Certain anti-depressants can suppress REM sleep. Sharpless and Doghramji published the first treatment manual for isolated sleep paralysis that consists of a short (five-sessions) course of ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized, in part, by a quest for certainty, which causes the individual with OCD to ...

UC San Diego Health is one of a few health care systems on the West Coast to offer a new gene therapy for hemophilia B, a ...

After thousands of complaints about complications, the FDA has issued an open letter to veterinarians to be alert to serious ...

Read at Los Angeles, November 7, 1931, before the joint meeting of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Orthopaedic Societies. Lowman — Lecturer on Growth Divergencies, University of Southern ...

In these situations, muscle paralysis is usually maintained for 12 to 24 hours or longer ... During surgery, you would be monitored so that your anesthesiologist would be able to detect these side ...

In humans, the first confirmed death caused by tick poisoning was reported by Cleland in 1912, when a large, engorged tick caused flaccid paralysis progressing to asphyxiation in a child.