A “kidney swap” occurs when a living donor is incompatible with his or her recipient but matches another person on the wait list, resulting in two live donor transplants ...

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The vagus nerve is a long, branching and meandering nerve that serves as an information superhighway. It is the longest and most complex of the 12 cranial nerves.

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LINCOLN — Sydney Jensen had scarcely taken a single day off of teaching in eight years before having her first child in 2020, often coming in sick to teach Nebraska ...

Healing the Gut Can Reduce Long-Term Impact of Stroke Nov. 26 ... 2024 — Damage to the brainstem -- the brain's 'control center' -- is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects ...

A head trauma can also affect the brainstem which relays nerve messages to the facial ... National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Hemifacial spasm. Hannawi Y, Abers MS, Geocadin RG, ...

Not to B-negative, but your blood type could offer a clue to your risk of having a stroke before 60. “The number of people with early strokes is rising,” said Dr. Steven J. Kittner ...

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Feb. 11, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimic the original structure and the molecular property of ...