Golf legend Tiger Woods announced he underwent successful lumbar disc replacement surgery to treat a collapsed L4/L5 disc — ...

A sports injury expert breaks down Tiger Woods' seventh back surgery and a potential timetable for his return. The post Tiger Woods’ latest surgery, potential return, explained by an expert appeared ...

It’s easy to screw up your spine with everyday activities, especially if you have bad posture, a sedentary lifestyle and poor technique when lifting stuff.

Regenerative medicine is a fast-growing field harnessing the body’s natural healing ability and has become a focus for ...

Whether it's a dull, underlying ache in your spine or a piercing stab, chronic back pain affects roughly one in four Americans. UC San Francisco's Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, Ph.D., neurologist and pain ...

UCSF neurologist Dr. Shirvalkar studies nerve-to-brain connections to find new ways to treat chronic back pain.

An experimental medication made from marijuana successfully reduced back pain in a new study, offering further support for ...

Pressure on long-dated bonds is easing around the world as investors eye supply changes and hunt for bargains after a selloff. Yields on 30-year US bonds have fallen around 25 basis points since early ...

At Ochsner Health, patients with certain back and spine problems who meet specific criteria may now be candidates for one of ...

I once heard someone say that, at certain points in life, you will take—but everything you take, you must one day give back. Giving back had always been on my mind, but I didn’t really understand what ...

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which ...

From flexible implants to circuits seeded with living cells, a new kind of electronics is starting to produce long-lasting implants with the potential to help everything from paralysis to hearing and ...