JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - A deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis found in Tennessee and Virginia has local pain clinics fielding a sea of questions and concerns. We checked with the Centers for Disease ...
A multi-state investigation is under way among patients who received spinal steroid injections that have killed seven patients, including two in Michigan, and sickened 91 in the nation. The Centers ...
A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) has detailed the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain’s protective meninges layers and cause the ...
Nuchal rigidity refers to neck stiffness caused by serious medical conditions such as bacterial meningitis. You probably don’t give your neck the credit it deserves. It’s easy to take for granted that ...
Mollaret’s meningitis is a rare form of aseptic meningitis. It’s also known as benign recurrent aseptic meningitis, benign recurrent lymphocytic meningitis, and idiopathic recurrent meningitis.
In less than 24 hours, the number of reported fungal meningitis cases in Michigan has increased from 29 to 41, state health department officials said late Friday. Of the 41 cases in Michigan, one is ...
A vaccine has been around since 1971, but some are not aware. Sept. 6, 2007 — -- Evan Bozof, a healthy baseball player and pre-med student at Georgia Southwestern University, thought he was ...
There are different types of neck pain that can affect your muscles, nerves, or other nearby tissues. Each has different causes and different treatments that might be effective. Neck pain may result ...
Just three weeks before Andy Marso finished college, meningitis turned his life upside down. All of his toes and fingers, except his right thumb,... 'Worth The Pain': A Life Transformed Overnight By ...
Mollaret’s meningitis is a rare type of meningitis that causes recurring episodes of inflammation around the brain and spinal cord. Mollaret’s meningitis is a rare and chronic form of aseptic ...