Meningitis symptoms can result from other causes Steroids leave patients' immune systems more vulnerable Meningitis hotline is 800-222-1222 NASHVILLE — As officials attempt to find the way tainted ...

Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to design a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the ...

Researchers have created an ultra-flexible brain implant that may help restore injured spinal cords and nervous systems without inflammation or infection. "E-dura," named after the dura mater ...

For the study, patients were randomized in the operating room if a spinal fluid leak was seen after the dura was closed with the sutures. One hundred and two of the patients received the PEG hydrogel ...

A thin and flexible implant that can be applied directly to the surface of the spinal cord to administer electrical and chemical stimulation has been developed by scientists in Switzerland. The e-Dura ...

Researchers are a step closer towards helping paralyzed individuals walk again as a team from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and colleagues develop flexible implants that can be used ...

Spinal implants have suffered similar problems as those in the brain—they tend to abrade tissue, causing inflammation and ultimately rejection by the body. Now an interdisciplinary research ...