Number of organ donors rises sharply on days of large-scale motorcycle rallies
The number of organ donors increases...
The number of organ donors increases...
Genetic abnormalities may make some people more susceptible to myocarditis...
The exosomes, which were only discovered in the 1980s...
Scientists have found a way to repair damaged fibers in the spine that don't recover...
Boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters may show some recovery...
During an attack of back pain it is in no case possible to massage and...
It is also necessary to call an ambulance when a...
The scientists say their findings should...
Armenian servicemen who lost their hands were fitted with prostheses which had more aesthetic significance, as their functionality was not great…
Electrostimulated dressings have previously been shown to accelerate...
He was saved by people nearby…
The doctors managed to take the needle out…
Cells in the outer region of the vertebral discs experience stress and start the healing process...
When a man untangled the appliance hose, the pneumatic nailer unexpectedly tripped and drove a nail directly into the carpenter’s heart…
Then he underwent computed tomography, which showed the presence of a foreign body in the skull…
Helena Stone developed complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)…
A compression fracture of the spine occurred upon impact
“Sarah-Jayne Roche, 39, was injured while running the Cardiff half marathon…
An American pit bull terrier named Clyde belonged to her friend…
“I was sober at the time. I only had a couple of drinks through the whole day…
Sebastian tried to turn to another side, but he felt severe pain in his back, which, as it turned out later, was the result of damage to the kidney…
The 22-year-old Bethany Rosser decided to cook eggs in the microwave…
The girl took part in a graduation party, and accidentally fell off a cliff, she received a head injury…
She was facing disability, the woman got out of the wheelchair…
The girl was wearing leggings, and chemicals from glue for nails came into chemical contact with a cotton cloth…
The woman had a spinal injury and could not call for help…
The hands were 98% separated from the body, and barely kept on a thin piece of skin…
The doctors managed to remove the lid, the whistle of which perforated her head…
David had just arrived at work when he heard some fizzing noise from the left pocket of his tracksuit bottoms…
Experiments on rats showed that this hydrogel increases the ability of bone cells to regenerate...
“Leeches go into hibernation at low temperatures, so I sprayed a carbon dioxide freezing agent on it…
The incident occurred in 1994 on the coast of Florida…
This is not the first tragic incident involving batteries for electronic cigarettes…
“He says he is going to stay away from sharp objects…
The 14-year-old boy suffered a scratch to his cornea and blood visible pooling in his eye…
“It's basically a bag full of fluids with all the nutrition you need…
It meant that he was left with a Grade IV erection...
Doctors say she was exposed to persulfates and hydrogen peroxide...
The 47-year-old man walked into Molinette Hospital in Turin, Italy, with the arrow sticking out of his chest on Tuesday, according to ABC News...
Hospital staff conducted emergency surgery....
In the first instance, doctors gave him antibiotics but didn't deem it necessary to ...
Cuts in her bowel led to internal bleeding, which needed emergency surgery...
She was whisked to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto...
His leg got stuck in a piece of farm equipment as...
The chemicals in the glue had scorched her cotton jeans...
In October 2017, Caitlin, then 14, was attending cross-country practice when she was accidentally hit in the head by a teammate...
She started throwing up and it was terrifying...
He couldn't walk for two years...
Medics were only able to save one of Victoria's legs...
Symptoms of sepsis include slurred speech or confusion...
Bahe’s main venous sinus to the brain was preserved by less than...
Back in the UK the implant began to smell like 'rotten meat'...
The insects, identified as sweat bees, don’t usually attack people but are attracted to...
Scientists from the Institute of Biophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Science and Technology Beijing have changed the traditional structure of wound dressings by creating a kind of sponge with a three-dimensional layered nanofiber sponge...
He went to his local hospital, but was ...
Surgeons put a device called a shunt, which diverts blood flow, into his penis...
She visited the casualty unit of her local hospital twice but...
Injuries to these bones, from small cracks to pieces that break off, can be painful and often stop athletes' careers in their tracks. Osteochondral injuries can also lead to disabling arthritis...
Today, Mrs Leigh cannot speak for more than a few minutes...
Harris was in so much pain he went into shock and had to be rushed to hospital, where an x-ray confirmed his thigh bone - the strongest bone in the body - had been torn in half...
Her car's airbag was already deflated when she went up the embankment...
He had three bullet holes in his body...
Victorian man Bill Singleton, 68, told his wife Lynette he was just going out to chop some firewood and would be back home soon after...
The 21-year-old and a relative have been detained and face up to eight years in prison if convicted...
The condition had robbed her of her ability to walk, but ...
Excisional wounds bioprinted with layered autologous dermal fibroblasts and...
Before the two-and-a-half-hour operation, the realtor, of Colorado Springs, scribbled a note on her limb to say goodbye to her right foot...
Paper seems so light, flimsy and harmless. Yet they cause cuts that are extremely painful - and can be for days...
The scientists found that participants who followed the aerobic workouts took...
There isn’t a dry eye on the Internet right now....
Medics couldn't find anything the first time he went to a hospital...
He was rushed to hospital where he underwent surgery to repair a penis fracture...
The grant will be funded over a five-year period....
Sixty percent of the deaths of the 20,360 children and teens ages 1-19 were preventable, the study determined...
There were no significant associations between other exercise ....
Just four weeks later, he was able to bend his elbow again and partially regained the use of his hand ten months on...
However the trip to the hospital led to the discovery that he had an aggressive form of testicular cancer...
When the contexts and what we can infer about the participants are taken into account...
The case report also delved into the effects of people using mobile phones while walking...
Most of us probably take it for granted, but this is an essential movement...
Even on the bad days to keep going, you can still have a normal life...
The fact the husband held DeLine’s head so she could breath had likely saved her life, doctors said...
Doctors discovered 14 tiny magnets were inside his small intestines had perforated the lining and were leaking bile into his stomach...
After enduring surgery and 10 months of physiotherapy, Miss du Plessis, who studied business science, was still struggling to walk...
These results establish a technological framework for improving neurological recovery..
Spinal sensorimotor networks that are functionally disconnected from the brain ...
It's the first study to look at the injury rates of amateur salsa dancers, and compare its finding to similar research into other popular genres of dance...
The Chinese construction worker was walking along a two-metre high platform at work when he fell off and landed on the metal pole...
Researchers embed magnetic particles into surgical cement to help guide magnetic nanoparticles to the spinal column...
One surprising result the researchers found was that patients in the middle decades of life, particularly women aged 30-49, seemed to be at increased risk of nonunion...
Laboratory trials on rat bones showed the adhesive - much stronger than that used to fix broken teeth - worked in five minutes...
The study, published in the journal Neurology, involved nearly 326,000 veteran US servicemen and women...
“It was instant dread,” she said when she got the news...
The researchers recommended that that they do not support the daily use of calcium, vitamin D supplements.․․
The body clock, also called your circadian rhythm, regulates wound healing by skin cells and optimizes healing during the day, the researchers concluded...
Activity-dependent plasticity can re-establish voluntary control of movement and standing after complete paralysis in humans even years after injury...
She also suffered a severe eye injury – her left was found by surgeons near her nasal cavity...
Researchers have identified inflammatory biomarkers which can be used to develop a test that can help detect whether the brain has suffered injury in the first hour of accident...
In a world exclusive interview with MailOnline, Carlos revealed how he can hold his toothbrush and talk on his mobile phone, things he thought he would never do again...
Doctors are unsure if she will be able to walk again after she suffered a break in two of the bones in her back and a dislocation that damaged her spinal cord...
A metal guardrail crashed through the passenger window and cut her arm off above her elbow...
The test is necessary as concussion is notoriously difficult to detect following a blow to the head – and is a particular problem during sports...
The Australian review team, from La Trobe University in Melbourne, pooled the findings of seven previous studies, conducted between 1974 and 2006, which each assessed the use of shock-absorbing insoles...
The prosthetic hand is designed for a person who still has the ability to move their wrist. By moving their wrist, they can control and use the hand's fingers to grab and hold various objects...
If you have cuts or wounds, it is best not to use alcohol to clean the area as it can harm the tissue and delay the healing process...
“Is there a moment of truth in these surgeries? The moment when you know you’ve succeeded in attaching that arm?” Martin asked him…
Whilst 93% of people will call for an ambulance if they find someone with an injury, first aid intervention of any kind was infrequent...
Currently, titanium is preferred for artificial knee and hip joints because of a number of features, including being strong, wear-resistant, and nontoxic...
However Daily Mail Online has sought out some help so that, should you ever find yourself in such a precarious position, you may have the know-how to escape relatively unharmed...
His face is flat and covered in fatty tissue in order to stop him breaking any delicate bones, such as the cheekbones or nose, during impact, and he has no neck at all - with his ribs reaching right up to his skull - to avoid all-too-common neck injuries...
iPug CEO Steve Huff said being able to use world-first technology to combat childhood injuries was an amazing opportunity...
Today I begin a new chapter filled with personal hope and hope for others who have suffered genital injuries…
The chip reads brain signals, which are interpreted by a computer. It then precisely stimulates his muscles with electricity to restore movement…
The team tested the use of an inexpensive, disposable electrochemical sensor that immediately reveals bacteria based on the detection of pyocyanin...
The Myo armband works by first sensing and recording muscle activity in Matheny’s arm...
But the idea of creating "smart chips" that can feed doctors information and then waste away takes the concept to a new level, say the researchers...
The latest estrogen variant, EE-3-SO4, helps prolong life for up to six hours post-trauma and could help not just trauma victims in general, but especially those with traumatic brain injuries...
The study is published in the Journal of Neurotrauma...
Both of Albright's legs were broken in the accident, and the injuries he sustained "required a lifetime of treatment and basically he was paralyzed," says Minnich...
Fibrin is a protein that is summoned during blood clotting to stop bleeding…
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Seek help if the bleeding doesn't stop...
Pacquiao’s handlers unsuccessfully sought to get a pain-killing shot in the shoulder for him in the dressing room before the fight...
However she admits that this may one day change...
The study showed that these men were 6.2 times more likely to die an early death compared with men living during that time without skull fractures…
Baylee suffered sever head trauma and the resulting brain damage left her to see, to walk, to talk or eat on her own...
The link between food addiction and PTSD symptoms is strongest among those whose…
A fracture is immediately obvious when there’s a deformity to the ankle or wrist…
A sprain often occurs in the ankles, knee or the arches of the feet...
When lightning strikes some people they develop Lichtenberg figures across their skin...
If the procedure is successful, doctors say the mesh will restore the original shape of his head…
When an organ is injured, the healing process involves the growth of new blood vessels…
"The wind must have blown it off…
Luis Suarez had an operation to remove damaged meniscus, a type of cartilage, from his left knee…
The device was developed by the founder of Israel-based Argo Medical Technologies, who was paralyzed in a 1997 car crash…
After the gun misfired, the man thought he had dodged the stray shot when it was actually lodged deep into his brain…
Armenia urgently needs improved education and training for doctors and, what is more important, for nurses…
Heart disease complications include heart failure...
I had never seen anything like it...
People who have remained in education for longer have a greater ‘cognitive reserve’, which means they are less likely to be left permanently disabled after a head injury...
Talk to your doc about these expert-approved natural back pain remedie..
She said the medical community typically focuses on the impacts of obesity on the cardiovascular system and the risk for other illnesses...
The shoulder is our body’s most mobile joint, making it highly functional but also easier to injure than most other joints...
For both genders, it's important to be seen by a doctor and not return to play prematurely, which can be dangerous or even fatal...
About 70 percent resulted from direct contact with the bike - as opposed to hitting the ground - and nearly half of the overall injuries were due to contact with the top tube...
The patient is 66, he received right hip replacement...
Take precautions against head injuries…
Before closing your incision, your surgeon will bend and rotate your knee, to ensure it functions properly…
The researchers focused on the BDNF genetic variants of 156 Vietnam War veterans who had suffered penetrating head wounds during combat…
He was told to go to a doctor...
One thing we're pointing out here is that it doesn't necessarily have to be strenuous activity...
The studies that involved brain imaging found players who suffered concussions had physical changes to their brain...
For the past 15 years, he’s been fixing broken backs by injecting them with a special kind of medical cement...
The bites lead to serious infections that can require multiple hospitalizations, antibiotics and sometimes surgery...
Exclusive video from Yerevan hospital…
The prototype device, which was wired to nerves in the 36-year-old Dane's left arm, blurs the boundary between body and machine…
If the porcupine fell on the pavement, not on me, it would get smashed up...
Four weeks after the accident, Korn evaluated the patient, who was experiencing vision problems…
A more common situation tends to be the opposite of Riggs' -- when a person with normal vision has a brain injury and loses their ability to recognize some colors because of damaged cone cells...
Doctors have for years harvested stem cells from bone marrow at the top of the pelvis and injected them back into the body to repair bone…
Establish a routine of using the high chair only for sitting for meals; do not let it be used for playtime...
The laser used on the boy in the new report falls into class 4, according to the researchers. It produced 1,250 mW of power…
If Schumacher survives he will not be Schumacher...
The rules mean potential recipients will be added to the UNOS network…
For sham surgery, the microshaver that is typically used by the surgeon for meniscus removal didn't have a blade…
Two layers of material combine in the head of the biopen as a surgeon uses it to “fill in” a damaged section of bone in a patient…
Poor street cleaning, ice and wrong shoes are the cause of traumas in people...
"The higher risk also remains when we take other risk factors for fractures into consideration, such as age, smoking…
Initially, doctors said they would be unable to save his limb…
Incredibly, the 26-year-old has only to think of moving a hand, arm or fingers and the false arm responds accordingly…
There is mounting evidence that live and video images of traumatic events can trigger flashbacks and encourage fear conditioning"…
Compared with orthopedics, podiatry pays more attention to norm than to pathology...