For the last five-and-a-half years, Emily Farmer has unknowingly lived with her skull not fully attached to her body. Now she ...

is the top vertebrae of the spine. It is made up of the atlas (C1) and the axis (C2). These vertebrae are atypical and are different in shape and function from the rest of the cervical vertebrae.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack its own tissues, especially the lining of joints, leading to joint damage and pain. When RA attacks the ...

Support is growing for a rural Minnesota hockey teenager who broke his neck in a freak incident during a game in Canada last ...

The next day, he had spinal cord surgery to fuse his C1 and C2 vertebrae. She said he had multiple breaks in his C2 vertebrae in his neck. He’s currently recovering at Vancouver General Hospital.

For the last five and a half years, Emily Farmer has unknowingly lived with her skull not fully attached to her body. Now she ...