Brooklyn Aleksic is a Canadian student-athlete with a bright future who is now paralyzed from the neck down, after being ...

Brooklyn Aleksic, a promising Canadian curler and university student, faces a life-altering challenge after sudden paralysis ...

But when transverse myelitis struck Cody Unser in 1999, she and her mother, Shelley, discovered the difficulty in getting information about this rare disease, which afflicts 34,000 Americans.

Marquette University High School student Gianni Quintero was diagnosed with transverse myelitis at age 6.

Doctors first identified cases of unexplained muscle weakness and limb paralysis in children, which they called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, in 2014, said Dr. Kevin Messacar.

OSHKOSH – Five years ago, Kelly Kinney was diagnosed with transverse myelitis. Her immune system is overactive and attacks healthy myelin protecting the nerves in her spinal cord. HSCT consists ...

European researchers surveyed 28 countries and found acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) remains underreported, with only Norway maintaining dedicated surveillance. Most AFM cases coincided with years of ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable advancement in treating children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare but ...

Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of one or two segments of the cord, and the inflammation extends from one side to the other (transverse).