My grandmother lives with me, and she is always nagging me to “stand up straight” and “put your shoulders back.” She says ...

The Western medical establishment ousted him. China embraced him. Will the man on a mission to perform the first human head transplant ever pull it off?

Lucy’s partial skeleton strengthened the argument — until then based on the tiny Taung skull — that a two-legged stride arrived before the emergence of big brains in human evolution. Lucy’s lower-body ...

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Despite diagnostic and therapeutic advances, mortality and the multi-systemic health impact of SMA continue to be experienced ...

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SMA weakens the muscles closest to the center of the body, including the shoulders, hips, thighs and upper back. The affected child may develop a curve in the spine (scoliosis) due to loss of size and ...

As the spinal cord travels down the back, it is protected by the vertebral column, which is a stack of bones that hold the body upright. The nerves of the spinal cord run through various openings ...