High-Dose Movement Therapy Produces Lasting Benefits for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy, a movement disorder that affects use of one side of the body, showed improved use of the arm and hand after receiving a high dose of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in a recent clinical trial.
Critical Time Window for Rehab After Stroke
Researchers found that intensive therapy, added to standard rehabilitation, produces the greatest improvement when administered 2-3 months after a stroke.
Infection Hinders Blood Vessel Repair after TBI
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other injuries to blood vessels in the brain, like stroke, are a leading cause of long-term disability or death. NINDS researchers have found a possible explanation for why some patients recover much more poorly from brain injury if they later become infected.
Origins of Lung Cancer in Never Smokers
Researchers from NCI identified three subtypes of lung cancers in people who never smoked. The results could help guide more precise lung cancer treatments.
Screening Device Accurately Detects Lazy Eye
A handheld screening device that detects subtle misalignment of the eyes accurately identifies children with amblyopia (lazy eye).
Disparities in Opioid Overdose Deaths Continue to Worsen
The opioid overdose death rate was significantly higher for non-Hispanic Black individuals in four U.S. states from 2018 to 2019, while the rates for other race and ethnicity groups held steady or decreased. These findings appeared in a new NIH study.
Disparities in Opioid Overdose Deaths Continue to Worsen
The opioid overdose death rate was significantly higher for non-Hispanic Black individuals in four U.S. states from 2018 to 2019, while the rates for other race and ethnicity groups held steady or decreased.
New Robotic Cane Offers New Direction
Equipped with a color 3-D camera, an inertial measurement sensor and its own onboard computer, a newly improved robotic cane could offer blind and visually impaired users a new way to navigate indoors.
Scientists Build Cellular Blueprint of MS Lesions
A new study lays the groundwork for potential new therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis. Chronic lesions with inflamed rims, or “smoldering” plaques, in the brains of people with MS have been linked to more aggressive and disabling forms of the disease.