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Williamsport, Pa. — A new neurosurgeon will begin serving the region after a recent appointment by UPMC.

Aug. 8—A South Oakland gene therapy company that suspended development work last week to consider operational alternatives is licensing its technology to a new startup that aims to treat an

After watching his grandfather suffer from a neurodegenerative disease, Prof. Friedlander has devoted his life to discovering the most effective methods for enjoying one's senior years with activities that not only engage and entertain, but also greatly decrease the chance of becoming ill yourself

Spinal cord stimulation restores movement in the arms of stroke patients with locomotion problems, researchers report. The treatment has the potential to improve the quality of life for those who suffer arm paralysis following a stroke.

A neurotechnology that stimulates the spinal cord instantly improves arm and hand mobility, enabling people affected by moderate to severe stroke to conduct their normal daily activities more easily, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University today in Nature Medicine.

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Huntington’s disease might just top the list of intractable neurodegenerative diseases. BioSpace spoke with the field's foremost experts about the challenges and how to overcome them.

GMIS America Forum in Pittsburgh convenes more than 70 expert speakers from governments and the private sector to drive discussions on how digital technologies...

Nate Smallwood/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Since returning to the campaign trail last month after a mid-May stroke, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrat vying for the state's open Senate seat, sometimes speaks haltingly to voters -- pausing in the middle of sentences and slurring his words. Otherwise, he has said, he has "no physical limits" and no issues with memory or language comprehension. In an interview on MSNBC last week, Fetterman, who works with a speech the...

Republicans suggest John Fetterman is too sick to serve. Neurologists call attacks uninformed