News tagged with neurological disability

Sleep disturbances show clear association with work disability

Sleep disturbances increase the risk of work disability and may slow the return to work process. This is especially true in cases where work disability is due to mental disorders or musculoskeletal diseases. These results ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tourette's most common in white kids, boys

(AP) -- Tourette syndrome occurs in 3 out of every 1,000 school-aged children, and is more than twice as common in white kids as in blacks or Hispanics, according to the largest U.S. study to estimate how many have the disorder.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drug improves mobility for some MS patients

The experimental drug fampridine (4-aminopyridine) improves walking ability in some individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). That is the conclusion of a multi-center Phase 3 clinical trial, the results of which were published ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0