Surgery is typically indicated when six months of conservative therapy have not been successful, if there is a neurologic deficit attributable to the cervical disc disease or when the symptoms ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2006;54(12):3859-3867. Degenerative disc disease is one of today's most common and costly medical conditions. Marked by the gradual erosion of cartilage between the ...

Dogs with a slipped disc that can't walk, or have difficulty walking, are cases that certainly cause great concern to many dog owners. Affected dogs develop severe back pain ... best modality for the ...

"For too long, the Parkinson's community has had limited treatment options for advanced disease," Dr. Robert A. Hauser, professor of neurology at the University of South Florida said in a press ...

Dr. Graff-Radford's Memory Disorders Lab is studying large cohorts of Caucasian and African American people with Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia and many controls with ...

The authors examined the contribution of genetic factors, lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) and other risk factors in a female sample of ... After adjustment for other risk factors, the individuals who ...

Worldwide, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of severe vision loss in people aged 50 or older ... Dry AMD might be early, intermediate, or advanced. People with early or ...

Traditional methods of disease detection, which rely on manual labor and expert observation, are time-consuming, expensive, and often not feasible in large-scale agricultural operations.

Many aspects of the physiology of the intervertebral disc (IVD) show clear diurnal rhythms ... Genetic disruption to the mouse IVD molecular clock predisposes to IVD degeneration. These results ...

Keratoconus is the most common disease ... marginal degeneration, Terrien's marginal degeneration, keratoglobus and ectasias following surgery. Advanced ectasias usually present with loss of vision ...

"For too long, the Parkinson's community has had limited treatment options for advanced disease. Due to the progressive nature of the disease, oral medications are eventually no longer as ...