A simple combination of blood and urine tests may allow many infants with fevers (febrile) to safely avoid lumbar punctures (spinal taps), according to new findings from a major international study published in JAMA. The results show that these noninvasive tests can reliably identify infants with fevers 28 days and younger who are at very low risk for invasive bacterial infections.
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After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this response is controlled by specific DNA sequences. This knowledge could help develop more targeted treatments.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Itvisma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-brve) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients 2 years and older with confirmed mutation in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene.
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Lower back pain is a chronic condition that affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. A simple exercise could be a big help. And the best thing? You don't even have to get up to do it.
Treatment of upper lumbar disc herniation (LDH) with concomitant spinal canal stenosis is challenging. Conventionally, addressing both pathologies endoscopically requires the use of both transforaminal and interlaminar endoscopic systems, which increases surgical invasiveness and procedural complexity. In this study, we adopted a novel technique involving full endoscopic lumbar laminectomy via an interlaminar approach, followed by the application of a specially designed retraction tube.
