A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. Applying low ...

ALEXANDRIA — A fundraising rally will be held April 12 for a hockey player who suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury earlier this year. The rally for Jackson Drum will be held at Northstar ...

Watch: Germantown woman shares message after surviving rare spinal-fluid health scare Germantown woman survives rare spinal-fluid health scare "This comes up very rarely," Plitt said. "It's ...

The drill operator was hurt after a breakdown in safety protocols at Northern Star’s Carosue Dam mine northeast of Kalgoorlie. He is still recovering. In the Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...

Here are the key findings from a HIQA review into the use of unapproved springs in a series of spinal surgeries by one surgeon at Children's Health Ireland Temple Street. The Health Information ...

Those were the words of Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon following the publication of a 2017 report which criticised “unacceptable” delays in providing spinal surgery to these children.

Steel springs implanted in children during spinal surgery were made from a metal known to corrode and were not evaluated due to gaps in hospital procedures, health regulator Hiqa has found.

Responsibility for the use of unauthorised springs in children’s spinal surgeries lies with the surgeon involved “in the first instance”, the Taoiseach has insisted. Micheál Martin said it ...

First and foremost at the heart of this controversy over spinal operations are the children and families affected. Three children were failed in the care they received and had unapproved spinal ...

The damning Hiqa report found the use of metal springs during spinal surgery on children in CHI at Temple Street Hospital was “wrong”. It found that non-CE-marked springs were implanted into ...

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