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In young male American football players, concussion symptoms and severity were higher for those who sustained the injury on natural grass compared with artificial turf, according to new research in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine.

The FDA has granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designation to an autologous, fully human CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy candidate, to treat those with progressive myasthenia gravis.

The FDA has approved Medtronic’s Asleep Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for individuals diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease as well as those with essential tremor, according to the manufacturer.

Bypassing the blood-brain barrier remains an obstacle for novel therapeutics. Healio spoke to Thomas Chen, MD, PhD, founder and CEO of NeOnc, to find out how a novel nasal spray formulation to treat brain cancer overcomes these challenges.

The FDA has granted fast track designation to a sublingual tablet form of the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride for the management of fibromyalgia, according to a press release from the manufacturer.

Ajovy offers “significant efficacy” compared with placebo to address episodic migraine in children and adolescents, according to topline results from the phase 3 SPACE study.

NYU Langone was again the top hospital in the United States for neurology and neurosurgery, according to the latest annual Best Hospitals Survey issued by U.S. News & World Report.

A Brooklyn-based biotech firm has announced successful completion of the first phase of a preclinical study conducted with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research involving a proprietary hemostatic hydrogel to treat traumatic brain injury.

A clinical-stage neuroscience-focused biopharmaceutical company has received new international patents related to an investigational neuroactive pherine nasal spray to potentially treat individuals with migraine.

No significant differences were found in clinical outcomes or recovery time in college athletes who returned to play following concussion compared with those immediately removed, according to research from Neurosurgical Focus.