SOMERSWORTH — A 42-year-old Seacoast man is home recovering from a rare spinal disorder that temporarily left him unable to walk and could keep him out of work for months if not longer. Benjamin ...

"I don't think any grown up could've handled what Alaric handled." A 2-year-old who was fighting a condition that left him paralyzed has regained his ability to walk. In December of 2020, Alaric ...

A case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that enterovirus D68 directly infects spinal cord neurons and that a corresponding robust immune response is present – ...

The recently named disease can mimic the symptoms of polio. Editor's Note: This essay is a firsthand account written by Amber Allen, the mother of Cooper. It was Aug. 7, and we were about to leave for ...

AstraZeneca's chief executive Pascal Soriot said on Thursday that it should know before the end of the year whether its ...

A panicked parent calls. Her vigorous, active toddler was recovering from a cold when he suddenly began to have trouble walking, crying as though in pain. His face "looks funny," the parent reports.

This is Part I in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Reports of this life-threatening condition have increased within the US ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable advancement in treating children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare but ...