Cerebral Palsy has been linked to a condition called cryptorchidism in males - when one or both of the testicles are not present in the scrotum. A new study in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology ...

Botulinum toxin is an established antispastic treatment for children with cerebral palsy (CP), but its effect on adductor spasticity—an important risk factor for hip dislocation—has not been ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved expanded use of Dysport to treat upper- and lower-limb spasticity – including that caused by cerebral palsy – for patients as young as 2 years and older, ...

Wilmington, DE -- A Delaware team including Erin Crowgey, PhD, associate director of Bioinformatics with Nemours Biomedical Research, has published a study in the peer-reviewed journal BMC ...

The study used 2016-2020 information from the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), an administrative database that includes more than 49 children's hospitals. The authors stratified study ...

This Practice Point commentary discusses a recent paper by Hoving et al., who compared the cost-effectiveness of continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion (CIBI) with that of 'standard care' in ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - When you hear the word "Botox," you probably think of a cosmetic procedure to reduce wrinkles. You may be surprised to know that Botox has some very serious medical uses, too.

A local 10-year-old recently stepped up to help a 3-year-old boy with mixed spastic cerebral palsy get a comfortable chair to sit in that his family’s insurance wouldn’t pay for. Young Carson Langan ...

New Jersey's Medicaid managed-care system gives insurers wide power to decide who gets essential services, often with little ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In just four short months, Himanshu Prasad has made great progress. Once not able to easily bend his legs, today he is climbing stairs and he's got even bigger goals. "2022 is ...