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Paralysis
Paralysis is the loss of muscle function in part of your body. It happens when something goes wrong with the way messages pass between your brain and muscles. Paralysis can be complete or partial. It can occur on one or both sides of your body. It can also occur in just one area, or it can be widespread. Paralysis of the lower half of your body, including both legs, is called paraplegia. Paralysis of the arms and legs is quadriplegia.
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NOV 13, 2016
Plants & Animals
For the most part, any snake bite is a cause for worry because many people simply don’t know what they’re de
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 10, 2016
Neuroscience
When a person has lost sensation in a part of the body, whether to an accident or disease, they don’t just lose mo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 02, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Although snakes are limbless creatures with limited mobility, they have evolved to produce highly toxic venoms that can
...
OCT 24, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
For people that suffer from diseases with no treatments, the outlook can be bleak. One such illness is Charcot-Marie-Too
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In Brazil, it’s known as “Pisadeira,” a creature that lurks on rooftops at night, and then bears down
...
OCT 17, 2016
Videos
For as long as humankind have sought for cures, we were bound to stumble upon some poisons along the way, accidentally a
...
SEP 26, 2016
Immunology
A new drug candidate for multiple sclerosis (MS) was successfully tested in mice models of the disease. The drug, called
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 17, 2016
Immunology
Treatment options for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) are complicated, because inhibiting the immune sy
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2016
Videos
One day Luther Glenn was rushed to the emergency room, given a spinal tap, and diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. W
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 23, 2016
Neuroscience
The numbers on the incidence of strokes are pretty scary. In the United States, stroke is the third leading cause
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 20, 2016
Microbiology
Honey bee viruses. It’s safe to say that’s the first time I’ve strung those three words together. Hone
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 12, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
When science experiments work as planned, researchers are overjoyed. And in the rare instances when the results actually
...
AUG 08, 2016
Immunology
Whether chronic or acute, patients with inflammatory nerve disorders are often out of luck for a quick diagnosis or accu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 12, 2016
Health & Medicine
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are the leading cause of death and disability for Americans under the age of 45. Specific
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
JUN 27, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Almost 80,000 people die each year worldwide due to brain inflammation diseases, and it’s hard to know how many of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 23, 2016
Health & Medicine
For unknown reasons, T lymphocytes are known to go rogue, leaving the bloodstream to attack the myelin sheath, the insul
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 30, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The health effects of fasting has become an intriguing new subject of study. Besides the obvious benefit of weight loss
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 27, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the wild, survival of the fittest for some plants and animals mean sporting lethal venoms and toxins to kill whatever
...
APR 15, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Imagine pouring a cup of coffee, stirring it, and lifting the cup to drink. Sounds simple for most people, but being abl
...
APR 12, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Not unlike technology straight out of science fiction, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have develop
...
APR 01, 2016
Microbiology
A team of researchers announced in the journal Science that they’ve determined the structure of the Zika virus and
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 16, 2016
Videos
A team at MIT is working on a repair kit for spinal cord injuries. When the spinal cord is severed, growing new nerve ce
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 07, 2016
Technology
Exoskeletons are very cool pieces of technology and are extraordinary because they can either give a regular human being
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 01, 2016
Neuroscience
Neurons are incredibly tiny, but they have a big task in the brain. Cells within the nervous system, called neurons, are
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim