Bill Nye, renowned science educator and television personality, was a guest speaker at the National Ataxia Foundation’s Annual Ataxia Conference in Las Vegas o ...

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Health Canada has granted approval for Biogen’s Skyclarys (omaveloxolone) to treat Friedreich’s ataxia (FA), a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease, in individuals aged 16 years and above. The ...

As the only approved treatment to address disease progression, SKYCLARYS addresses a long-standing gap in the care of Canadians living with Friedreich's ataxia Friedreich's ...

A CSF leak occurs when cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) escapes from the protective layer surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This is a serious condition that can cause headaches, seizures ...

That’s because early Monday morning, Mir revealed on Instagram that he recently “underwent an emergency spinal fusion and laminectomy of (his) entire thoracic spine.” According to Johns Hopkins ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis self-care strategies including regular exercise, posture changes, and adopting healthy habits can help relieve back pain caused by narrowing spaces in the spinal canal. Lumbar ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

Spinal stenosis surgery helps to reopen your spinal canal, the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows ...

Neuronal atrophy early in a mouse model of spinal cerebellar ataxia 1 may represent an adaptive mechanism that restores the density of potassium channels in Purkinje neurons, thus normalizing ...

Sagittal and axial MRI scans in patients with Friedreich ataxia show thinning of the cervical spinal cord, and might also show signal abnormalities in the posterior and lateral columns.