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1.) Do You Know You're Having A Stroke?

2.) Predicting Visual Recovery: New System Helps Soldiers, Families Cope

3.) Gene Associated With Age-related Hearing Loss Identified

4.) MRI Machines May Damage Cochlear Implants

5.) Virtual Ears And The Cocktail Party Effect

6.) Baffling Chronic Pain Linked To Weird Rewiring Of Brain

7.) Pain Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

8.) Pain And Itch Responses Regulated Separately

9.) Mammals Can Be Stimulated To Regrow Damaged Inner Retina Nerve Cells

10.) Pluripotent Stem Cells Shown To Generate New Retinal Cells Necessary For Vision, Study Finds

11.) Neurons Derived From Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Muscle Function After Injury

12.) Stem Cells With Potential To Regenerate Injured Liver Tissue Identified

13.) Using Adult, Embryonic Stem Cells For Tissue Regeneration: New Advances

14.) Brain Implants May Help Stroke Patients Overcome Partial Paralysis

15.) Intraspinal Implant Of Mesenchymal Stem Cells May Not Heal The Demyelinated Spinal Cord

16.) Key Mechanism That Regulates Development Of Stem Cells Into Neurons Identified

17.) Can Vitamins And Minerals Prevent Hearing Loss?

18.) Intelligent Walker Designed To Assist The Elderly And People Undergoing Medical Rehabilitation

19.) Brain Injury Repair? Damaged Nerves Regenerated By Silencing Natural Growth Inhibitors In Neurons

20.) Multiple Sclerosis Progression Can Be Predicted With MRI

21.) New Mouse Mutant Contains Clue To Progressive Hearing Loss

22.) Interferon Could Be A Key To Preventing Or Treating Multiple Sclerosis

23.) Enabling The Blind To Find Their Way

24.) Gene Find Sheds Light On Motor Neuron Diseases Like ALS

25.) Space Tech Prosthetic Leg Helps To Reach Long-jump World Record

26.) Caregiving May Be Associated With Poorer Health In Certain Groups

27.) New Hope For Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers

28.) Neural Probe Developed That Will Limit Damage To Cells And Biological Tissue

29.) Genes That Control Cell Death Fingered In Age-related Hearing Loss

30.) Fine Balance: Class Of Spinal Cord Neurons Makes Sure That Sides Of Body Don't Get Ahead Of One Other

31.) Neuroscientist Finds Transplanted Hand-to-brain Mapping 35 Years After Loss Of Limb

32.) Protein Shown To Play A Key Role In Normal Development Of Nervous System

33.) Movement Restored To Paralyzed Limbs In Monkeys Through Artificial Brain-muscle Connections

34.) Personal Music Players: Scientists Warn Of Health Risks From Exposure To Noise

35.) Black Patients With Chronic Pain Less Likely To Have Obesity Assessed

36.) Response To Immune Protein Determines Pathology Of Multiple Sclerosis

37.) Better Insights Needed Into Failure Mechanisms Of Hip Replacements

38.) Helping People With Disabilities Make Use Of Public Transport

39.) Thousands Of Deaf Patients Struggling To Access Basic Health Care

40.) Olfactory Bulb Glial Cell Transplant Preserves Muscles In Paraplegic Rats

41.) Nanoparticles Used To Deliver Treatment For Brain, Spinal Cord Injuries

42.) Pain Is Not A Symptom Of Arthritis, Pain Causes Arthritis, Study Shows

43.) Voice-Commanded Robot Wheelchair Finds Its Own Way

44.) New Tool To Assess Speech Development In Infants, Toddlers With Hearing Impairments

45.) Novel Mechanism To Reduce Nervous System Inflammation Identified

46.) Cochlear Implants In Children A Safe Procedure, Study Suggests

47.) Geriatric Patients Receive Significant Benefit From Cochlear Implantation

48.) Prosthetic Vein Valve Designed To Direct Blood Flow Shows Promising Pre-clinical Results

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