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Researchers have said that epidural steroid injections are quite frequently used for treating lower back pain that is related to herniated disk (when intervertebral disks compressed or bulges up) and to some extent spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal).

And, crucially, they found that they could reverse the process, switching the brakes back on and stopping cancer. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in the US say their finding could lead to a new strategy for cancer therapy based on reprogramming cells back to normality. While this...

If you suffer from back pain related to a ruptured disc, you may have heard about spinal epidural steroid injections to bring relief.

On Monday morning, Adama Sankoh walked out of the global Medical Corps treatment center in Makeni and onto a red carpet.

Epidural steroid injections are not very effective in treating low back pain, a new research suggests. He advised spine practitioners to prescribe them only if the first-line treatment for low back pain, which usually consists of therapy and over-the-counter painkillers,...

A new study has found that people who take aspirin on a daily basis have a lower risk of developing colon cancer.

In another update from the WHO, researchers and doctors in Sierra Leone are finding that parents are incredibly reluctant to bring their children to doctors, which could mean that the last couple of cases in the country are understated.

Before discharging Adama Sankoh in a very prestigious ceremony witnessed by the global community together with residents of the community, President Koroma cautioned his audience against complacency noting that it is not because the last Ebola patient has been discharged means...

“It represents an unexpected new biology that provides the code, the software for turning off cancer”. Eventually they pinpointed the problem, a protein called PLEKHA7, which was present in healthy cells, but was absent in cancerous cells.

West Nile virus can infect birds and horses as well as people.

During the tests and experiments that the research team conducted, subjects who had ruptured discs experienced immediate pain relief and improved function after receiving spinal steroid injections.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a label expansion for Novartis’ Promacta (eltrombopag) to treat low blood platelet count in paediatric patients with a rare blood disorder called chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).

This doesn’t mean her cancer came back – they are entirely new cancer that started on their own. Almost one out of five cases of cancer were of patients who had the disease before.

The patient’s release on Monday now starts the clock for a 42-day countdown until the World Health Organization can declare the country Ebola-free.

The most recent seasonal flu vaccine offered little protection, due to the mutations of the HA.