The tingling, numbness, and pain of peripheral neuropathy generally stem from nerve damage in your hands and feet. The nerve damage—and the symptoms—generally start in your longest nerves, which is ...

Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

A lung biopsy involves the removal of tissue or growths from the lungs. A doctor will use special devices, such as a fine needle, to remove the sample. A lung biopsy can help diagnose lung ...

Liquid biopsy is one of them. A traditional biopsy usually involves taking a tiny tissue sample from the body to diagnose a disease and to understand the extent of its progression. But liquid ...

Nerve pain refers to painful sensations around the nerves. Various treatment options are available, including anticonvulsants, certain antidepressants, mild opioids, and some topical treatments ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the sensitivity and specificity of superficial peroneal nerve (SPN)/peroneus brevis muscle (PBM) biopsy in a cohort of patients with suspected peripheral nerve vasculitis.

It’s like having a very complicated inbox and outbox for everything. The Role of Nerves in Identifying Pain Sensations Let’s say you step on a rock. How does a sensory nerve in the peripheral nervous ...

Here, we present an approach called Integral-Omics, which enables sequential extraction of metabolites, lipids, genomic DNA, total RNA, proteins, and phosphopeptides from a single biopsy-level tissue ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...