A single injection, then a five-minute wait. That's all it took for hundreds of stroke and traumatic brain injury patients nationwide to reverse years of debilitation. Now they're walking more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Half a million Australians are living with the devastating consequences of stroke but an experimental treatment in the US is ...

A new ground-breaking study about to be published in the Adis journal CNS Drugs provides clinical evidence that, for the first time, chronic neurological dysfunction from stroke or traumatic brain ...

An Australian family is pushing for a controversial new stroke treatment to be made available in Australia, saying the results have been life-changing for their son. Off-label use means using a drug ...

Can an FDA-approved arthritis drug double as a therapy for Alzheimer disease? Claiming it did in a patient, a case report published in the January 9 Journal of Neuroinflammation generated a wave of ...

The patient is an 81 y.o. physician who was referred in October 2007 for consideration of perispinal etanercept treatment by his internist. The patient had been in good general health until about two ...

Joel Shepherd, 26, has undergone two perispinal Etanercept treatments in the past fortnight at a US medical institute in Los Angeles. Injections of a drug usually used in the treatment of rheumatoid ...

Dianne Haines thinks it is ironic that a drug that is prescribed in Australia to treat arthritis and psoriasis is not available for treatment of stroke or acquired brain injury. "Yes, the drug is ...

If you have certain types of arthritis or plaque psoriasis, your doctor may prescribe Enbrel. It’s used to treat the following conditions: Enbrel contains the active drug etanercept, which is a ...

The authors' preferred hypothesis to explain the rapid clinical improvement observed centers on the emerging evidence, which suggests that TNF-alpha is of critical importance in the regulation of ...