The tingling, numbness, and pain of peripheral neuropathy generally stem from nerve damage in your hands and feet. The nerve damage—and the symptoms—generally start in your longest nerves, which is ...

Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

Whenever a sunbreak smiles upon Beacon Hill, it’s easy to ignore the roar of Interstate 5 below and jets overhead because this neighborhood’s got something unique in Seattle: a thoroughfare ...

Median salaries for teachers in New Jersey range from a high of $119,285 in a Bergen County district to a low of $50,235 in one Cumberland County charter school, data from the state Department of ...

Using the median weekly wage of $1396, this amounts to a $54 pay bump for private sector workers, or a $48 weekly increase for employees in the public sector. In annual terms, it is an increase of ...

If you have seizures which can’t be controlled with epilepsy medicines, and you are not able to have epilepsy brain surgery, then vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy may be an option for you. The ...