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SHINGLED OUT For most people, the particularly painful form of herpes known as shingles clears up in a matter of weeks. But for 10% of sufferers, the burning, stabbing pain persists, sometimes for decades. Now there's new hope. Doctors find that a series of spinal injections of lidocaine combined with a type of steroid called methylprednisolone relieved pain in 90% of patients studied...
...computerized tomography) scanners, which show precise anatomical details, were already in widespread medical use. But doctors, especially cancer surgeons, were often frustrated in their attempts to match the two different scans to determine, for example, the precise location of a tumor in relation to an organ or to the spinal column. There seemed to be no better way than simply "eyeballing" the two separate images...
After years of work, a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers is one step closer to finding a possible treatment for stroke damage and spinal cord injuries...
...practical level, we hope it's going to help improve functional outcome after a stroke or spinal injury," he said...
After the body suffers a stroke or spinal cord injury, the central nervous system is unable to reestablish its connections through the nerve cells, therefore causing severe and often permanent loss of mobility...