Professor Yimin Zou and colleagues have published surprising results that reveal that RYK expression inhibits wound healing, ...

Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has come out with its first-ever global guidelines for meningitis diagnosis, treatment ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has today published its first-ever global guidelines for meningitis diagnosis, treatment and care, aiming to speed up detection, ensure timely treatment, and ...

Nigerian health authorities are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 151 ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study has found. This stops pain signals before they get to the brain. The discovery could help ...

Nigeria has received more than 1 million vaccines from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat a meningitis outbreak in the northern part of the country, the government said on Friday.

Scientists have discovered that female hormones like estrogen and progesterone can trigger immune cells near the spinal cord to release natural opioids, easing pain before it reaches the brain.

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a severe infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. It occurs when the bacteria spread to the membranes surrounding the ...

It gets nutrients from cerebrospinal fluid, a clear liquid that bathes the brain and spinal cord. Both organs are covered with three layers of membranes called the meninges. The meninges and ...

In meningitis there appears to be a semiquantitative relation to the leukocyte count of the spinal fluid. Table 1 lists the lactic dehydrogenase activity of spinal fluid in 181 patients in the ...