The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Axogen's nerve repair graft, the health regulator said on Wednesday, ...

In diabetes, much attention goes to sugar control, insulin levels, and the threat of nerve damage. But a new study reveals something often overlooked—how the breakdown of nerve function in diabetes ...

New research from OHSU looked at human tissue to try to understand how many nerve fibers are contained in the clitoris. It seems to be the first time that this has ever been studied (a previous ...

Pain travels to our brain as neural impulses when something is wrong in our bodies. Pain is a phenomenon that is deeply intertwined with the brain and nervous system. When something is wrong with the ...

The early cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections saw people reporting a temporary loss of smell and taste (anosmia and dysgeusia) for about one-third of ...

The abducens nerve is also known as the abducent or sixth cranial nerve (CN6). It controls the eye’s lateral rectus muscle, which moves the eye sideways, away from the nose. Where the pons (a band of ...

Putting ice on an injury can ease the pain – and we may be able to get the same effect with an implant that cools down nerve fibres inside the body. The device can chill nerves to 10°C, reducing pain ...

It began in early October 2017, when 108 stroke patients with significant arm and hand disabilities turned up for a peculiar clinical trial. The researchers would be surgically implanting a ...