Teaching the paralyzed to walk again
A California scientist was able to get paralyzed rats running again, but can he do the same thing for humans?
HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells...
Avatars take to the stage in SPINE
When the cast of a new play plans its positions on a stage, the complicated process of mapping out its moves (known as blocking,...
URMC chief Dr. Brad Berk returns after devastating injury
Being paralyzed and totally dependent on others gave Dr. Brad Berk lots of time to think.
As chief executive of University of Rochester Medical Center,...
Wheelchair-user becomes first disabled model to star in major High Street campaign
Debenhams today became the first High Street retailer to use a disabled model in its advertising campaigns.
Shannon Murray, who is confined to a wheelchair,...
Stem Cell Research: The Debate on Ethics
Medical science has come a long way since the days of Hippocrates. The discovery of wonder drugs called antibiotics, the formulation of anaesthesia that...
Modified Adult Stem Cells May Be Helpful in Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers at UTHealth have demonstrated in rats that transplanting genetically modified adult stem cells into an injured spinal cord can help restore the electrical...
A walking miracle
Richard Perrin was thrown off a motorcycle at 160 km/h. ‘I came out on thewrong side of the risk-reward equation,’ he says of the...
Waiting for a miracle that could come soon
DENVER - Luke Vogel was angry. There is no other way to say it. He had heard people talk about quadriplegics before the accident,...
Showing the way
Local physical therapist pairs former patients with new patients to help newly disabled people learn how to cope
Jesse Gifford knows all too well how...
Safety Follow-up of Adult Stem Cell Patients Yields Promising Results
The XCell-Center has completed a promising safety follow-up of 870 patients who were treated by lumbar puncture for various indications such as spinal cord...
