With support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists across the United States and around the world conduct wide-ranging research to discover ways to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. Although COVID-19 was unquestionably the most important public health story of the year, here’s just a small sample of the other… Continue reading Important Health Discoveries of 2020
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Longer, Intense Rehab Boosts Recovery After Stroke and Brain Injury
Cognitive and functional recovery after a stroke or traumatic injury requires intense rehabilitative therapy to help the brain repair and restructure itself. February 2016 findings by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that not only is rehabilitation vital – in an animal model, rats with cortical injury that did not… Continue reading Longer, Intense Rehab Boosts Recovery After Stroke and Brain Injury