Wheelchair Unbound
Newly published author Francesco Clark speaks to Tonic about his near-death spinal cord accident and how he’s defied the odds and taken back...
Spinal-cord research earns national honor
Dr. Anthony F. DiMarco, a physician at Metrohealth Medical Center in Cleveland, is making a difference in the lives of patients with spinal-cord injuries.
His...
Targeted molecules play only minor role in axon repair
Discovery underscores difficulties in developing regenerative spinal cord injury therapies
Neuroscientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that removing...
Improving Recovery From Spinal Cord Injury; Treated Rats Regain Limb Control
BALTIMORE, June 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Once damaged, nerves in the spinal cord normally cannot grow back...
Proposal to Extend Spinal Cord Research Funding Introduced
The Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 2005 was created to fund spinal cord injury research at the University of California and...
Curing spinal-cord injury life’s goal for Ottawa surgeon
OTTAWA-Dr. Eve Tsai has made a real name for herself with her work in the operating room and in the research lab, Matthew Pearson...
With U.S. stem cell treatments limited, patients try other countries
Disillusioned by U.S. doctors who could not help their daughter with cerebral palsy, Kara Anderson's parents did something they could not have imagined a...
Never walk again? Yes, he did
HARTWELL - Harris Abramson remembers it like it was yesterday - the moment a surgeon stood at his hospital bed, looked down at him...
Former NFL Player Matt Stevens, Who Became Paraplegic, Walks Again in Groundbreaking ReWalk Device
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matt Stevens, a 36-year-old former professional football player paralyzed from a spinal cord injury, is one of only 12 patients selected to participate...
Hope for spinal injuries
University of Alberta researchers have discovered spontaneously active receptors in the spinal cord
Bucking conventional knowledge, University of Alberta researchers have identified spontaneously active receptors...
