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NDRF constable who saved pilgrim from drowning in Kumbh dies
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Feb 23 (ANI): National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) constable, Rajender Gautam, who had sustained a severe spinal injury while rescuing a pilgrim from drowning at Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, died at Safdarjung hospital in New Delhi, an NDRF official said.
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Scientists discover gene signature linked to spinal cord injury
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Oct 6(ANI): Scientists have determined a gene signature that is linked to the severity of spinal cord injury in animals and humans.
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Spinal Stenosis - A potential midlife crisis
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 7 (ANI): Do you often search for a chair to sit while attending a social gathering? Do you often experience numbness, weakness or a tingling sensation in any one or all of these areas like your feet, legs, hands and arms; or face problems while walking or with balancin
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Magnetic kyphoplasty can now heal spinal fractures
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC, [USA] July 30 (ANI): Adding magnetic particles to surgical cement can now heal spinal fractures. Patients with spinal fractures caused by tumors or osteoporosis usually undergo a procedure called kyphoplasty, where the fracture is filled with surgical cement.
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Here's how magnetic surgical cement heals spinal fractures
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] July 29(ANI): Turns out, magnetic surgical cement heals spinal fractures and provides the required drug delivery.
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Study recommends early treatment for babies' neuromuscular disorder
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 17 (ANI): A new study suggests that children with Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) can achieve improvements in motor function after six months of treatment with the drug nusinersen, particularly when treatment began before seven months of age.
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Take care of your spinal health to avoid life-long malaise
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb.28 (ANI): Over the years spinal health has emerged as one of the major concerns among millennials.
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More women venture into neurosurgery in Singapore
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Singapore [Singapore], Feb. 5 (ANI): Turns out, more and more women are venturing into one of the last bastions of male dominance - Neurosurgery.
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Targeting this protein may help treat multiple sclerosis
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 3 (ANI): A new study has found that a blood-clotting protein prevents repair in the brain.
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Surgeries performed in late hours have more complications, suggests Study
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A], Oct. 16 (ANI): Neurosurgical procedures are a type of medical specialty which is concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral
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This strategy may prevent infections in spinal cord injury patients
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 24 (ANI): A team of researchers has suggested a new treatment to prevent and reduce the incidence of infections in the patients with spinal cord injuries without the use of antibiotics.
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Bhopal: Doctors left needle inside pregnant woman's body, removes after 16
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sept. 10 (ANI): In a case of sheer negligence by the hospital authority, a government hospital of Bhopal allegedly left needle inside the body of a pregnant woman after giving her Spinal Anesthesia during her delivery.
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