Cervical cancer was once one of the leading causes of cancer death among women in the United States. Today, screening and prevention have considerably reduced the impact of this form of cancer. However, nearly 14,500 women in the United States have still been diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 4,200 died from the disease …
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Degenerative cervical myelopathy is the leading cause of spinal cord injury in adults, affecting nearly 1 in 10 people at some point in their lives. The condition results from a gradual and progressive compression of the spinal cord in the neck due to disc disease, unstable bone movement or ligament growth in the spinal canal. …
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain Many police departments have banned the use of neck restraints, citing safety concerns following widely publicized incidents in recent years. However, new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that vascular neck restraint (VNR), when applied by trained law enforcement officers, is an effective and safe technique that officers …
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