Genetics

Study examines the possible role of KIF5A gene in ALS

A study by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine used a newly developed mouse model to examine the possible role of a gene called KIF5A in the development of amyotrophic lateral ...

Addiction

How alcohol consumption contributes to chronic pain

Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different molecular mechanisms—one driven by alcohol intake and one by alcohol withdrawal. That is one new conclusion by scientists at Scripps ...

Medications

Epidurals during childbirth: What women should know

When it's time to have a baby, some women head to the hospital with a detailed birth plan that includes a request to avoid epidural anesthesia. Others think an epidural is the only way to get through labor. Regardless of ...

Medical research

Potential treatment target for drug-resistant epilepsy identified

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and colleagues have identified a small molecule that may help treat people with epilepsy whose condition has become resistant to the benzodiazepine drugs usually used in ...

Medical research

A new immune pathway sheds light on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

While drugs are on the market to slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, there are still no cures. But researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School are looking for new pathways for slowing ...

Neuroscience

Spinal cord stimulation may help diabetic neuropathy

People with painful diabetic neuropathy may be able to get relief from high-frequency spinal cord stimulation, according to a preliminary study released today, February 28, 2023, that will be presented at the American Academy ...

Medical research

An allergy drug showed promise for MS, but could they prove it?

What if an over-the-counter allergy medicine could help halt and even reverse multiple sclerosis? And if it did, could patients return to their full capacity? Those were some of the questions first posed in 2013 after a landmark ...

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