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...screening process tests for neural tube defects, which affect the development of the brain and spinal cord. It has been used extensively in Great Britain and on a small scale in the United States, where it is awaiting regulatory approval...
There is also a fair amount of drama behind him, the sort that did not make it to the big screen. Three winters ago, Diamond collapsed onstage during a concert. Doctors diagnosed a tumor on the spinal cord, and Neil endured a twelve-hour operation and three months in a wheelchair, uncertain whether he would ever walk again...
...breakdown at 19, and was bedridden with multiple ailments by the time she reached her forties. Her list of infirmities resembles an-encyclopedia of nervous disorders common to nineteenth-century women: at various points in her life, her condition was called neurasthenia, hysteria, rheumatic gout, suppressed gout, cardiac complications, spinal neurosis, nervous hyperesthesia, and spiritual crisis. Although it never became clear how many of her problems were physical, Alice's condition was at least, in part, a matter of choice. After feeling slighted and neglected throughout a healthy childhood and adolescence, she discovered, during her first breakdown, that her father...
Practitioners consider man as an integrated being, but give special attention to spinal mechanics, musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, nutritional and environmental relationships. The profession has not espoused the monocausal theory that "illnesses can usually be traced to misalignments in the spinal column" for many years...
...England Medical Center Hospital's pediatric unit in Boston, where Jeffrey was treated, and elsewhere, doctors are trying to find the cause of the disease, and its cure, by taking blood, spinal fluid and skin samples. Some are examined immediately, others frozen for future study. For now, says Jeffrey's physician, Richard Meade III, doctors confronted by a youngster with odd symptoms might "think of Kawasaki...