Stem cell therapy touches another milestone in spinal cord injury

Stem cell has been a boon to the modern medical research, and it has been creating success stories almost everyday. The research regarding stem...

Doctors at AIIMS operate on spinal injury, boy walks

New Delhi: A 10-year-old boy from a village in Uttar Pradesh has gained a new lease of life after the doctors at AIIMS operated...

Spinal Cord Injury Patient Pins Hopes On Stem Cell Therapy

A 34 year old Bangladeshi electronic hardware engineer, resident in the Middle East, who is a paraplegic after tumor surgery, travelled to Bangkok in...

Andy’s mountain chair challenge

A SEVENOAKS man is tackling Snowdon for charity less than a year after being paralysed in an accident. Andy Adamson, 27, of Chipstead Lane, said...

Cord Blood Awareness Month- Understanding Still Low, Despite Medical Advancements

SAN BRUNO, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite rapid advances using a child's own cord blood stem cells in regenerative therapies to repair damaged...

Soon, wheelchairs controlled by tongues

WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a novel headset that makes it possible for a person suffering from spinal cord injury to precisely control a...

XenoPort Reports Positive Results from Phase 2 Trial of Arbaclofen Placarbil in Spinal Cord...

XenoPort Reports Positive Results from a Phase 2 Trial of Arbaclofen Placarbil in Spinal Cord Injury Patients with Spasticity SANTA CLARA, Calif.- XenoPort, Inc. announced...

Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury

Demos Health is pleased to announce the publication in partnership with the Mayo Clinic of the "Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with a Spinal...

Funds needed to stem spinal woes

MELBOURNE is to host possibly the world's first human trial to help cure long-term spinal injuries. But researchers must first raise $5 million. They hope the...

Play on Canada’s Man in Motion to debut at Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

TORONTO — When Gemini Award-winning writer Dennis Foon was asked a year and a half ago to pen a play on wheelchair athlete Rick...