Los Angeles cardiologist Dr. Danielle Belardo's recent social media post about a young patient's stroke following ...

Dr. Belardo was surprised—the woman had been perfectly healthy and had no medical history that might suggest a stroke. But when she heard that the young woman had gone to her chiropractor for an ...

Four cadaver specimens had no previous history of cervical spine surgery ... Opening the vertebral lamina, it can be seen that the C7 nerve runs outwards and downwards after exiting the dura mater in ...

Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

Background: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is an important cause of stroke in the young. It can present nonspecifically and may be misdiagnosed with adverse consequences. We assessed the ...

Giving people with cervical cancer a short course of chemotherapy before radiation therapy dramatically improves survival according to the results of a new clinical trial. The data published in ...

A new cervical cancer treatment cuts the risk of death by 40% according to a large-scale study. Researchers at UCL and its associated hospital, University College London Hospital, spent 10 years ...

Adding a six-week course of chemotherapy to the standard course of treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer resulted in a significant increase in survival rates, a new study shows.

The peak incidence of cervical cancer is in women in their early thirties, with around 3,200 new cases each year in the U.K. The five-year survival rate for cervical cancer stands at around 70%.