In addition to needing assistance in obtaining and cooking meals, para-athletes with a positive body image who rate their dietary behavior as healthy scored low on a nutrition questionnaire, according to Osaka City University researchers.
Adults younger than age 60 whose days are filled with sedentary leisure time and little physical activity have a higher stroke risk than people who are more physically active, according to new research published recently in Stroke.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Synchron's Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application for its flagship product, the Stentrode motor neuroprosthesis, the company reports.
Results from research in the safety and efficacy of new chemistry in antisense oligonucleotides used to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) may lead to the development of drugs with less toxicity and fewer injections needed thanks to prolonged action, researchers suggest.
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After experiencing a stroke, patients often are unable to use the arm on their affected side. Sometimes, they end up holding it close to their body, with the elbow flexed. In an attempt to adapt to this impairment, muscles actually lose sarcomeres, according to researchers.
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According to a study of almost 2 million COVID-19 patients, 23.2% of them sought treatment for COVID-related symptoms a month or more after being diagnosed.
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The Mediterranean Diet has been reportedly named the best weight-loss diet. But can the diet – combined with a daily bout of exercise – also stave off dementia? The recently begun MedWalk Trial aims to find out.
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Researchers report findings on the use of smartphone-based VR games during dressing changes in pediatric patients with burn injuries as a way to relieve pain, in JAMA Network Open.
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Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have created an organoid that shows how human spinal cord cells become oriented in an embryo. The organoid could shed light on how environmental exposures or toxins can make this process go awry, causing early miscarriages and birth defects.
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New findings from Cleveland Clinic researchers, published in Cell Host & Microbe, suggest that the gut microbiome impacts severity and functional impairment following stroke.
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CureDuchenne launches CureDuchenne Link, a centralized data hub that directly connects data and biosamples provided by the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy community with scientists and drug developers around the globe.
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Researchers have identified a new gene that may increase a person’s risk of developing ALS. The gene, called TP73, produces a protein to help regulate the life cycle of a cell.
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Researchers have developed an artificial skin that senses force through ionic signals and also changes color from yellow to a bruise-like purple, providing a visual cue that damage has occurred, they report in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
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Pre-symptomatic infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treated with Evrysdi were able to reach motor milestones such as sitting without support, rolling, crawling, standing unaided and walking independently, trial results suggest.
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Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital, working in collaboration with Pfizer, report a high-throughput target and drug discovery platform using motor neurons made from ALS patients.
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Adults who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were more than three times as likely to have an ischemic stroke later in life compared to adults who do not have OCD, according to new research published in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
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The network connection between nerve cells in the spinal cord seems to play a critical role in the development of the severe disease ALS, researchers suggest, in a new study published in Nature Communications.
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Patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) show significant reduction in pain and other symptoms and improvement in walking gait biomechanics. However, those improvements do not lead to increased daily physical activity levels, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
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