Stem cell breakthrough could avoid ethical concerns
Advocates on both sides of the ethically charged debate over human embryonic stem cells hailed two breakthrough studies unveiled Tuesday that suggested simple human...
Everett leaves hospital 10 weeks after injury
Bills tight end Kevin Everett has been released from a Houston hospital to resume his next phase of rehab, 10 weeks since sustaining a...
Road to independence
St. Teresa man recovering from spinal cord injury suffered in car accident
Michael Curran is inching his way back to independence.
Curran, 32, of St. Teresa...
Developing Drugs To Limit Massive Cell Death After Spinal Cord Injury
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2007) — Neurons die en masse when the spinal cord is injured or when a person suffers a stroke. Researchers of...
Acorda Therapeutics CEO Inducted into Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame
HAWTHORNE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.® (Nasdaq:ACOR) today announced that Ron Cohen, M.D., its President and CEO, has been inducted into the SCI Hall of...
New Clinical Trials Could Open ‘Golden Era’ In Spinal Cord Injury And ALS Research
ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2007) — New experimental therapies are being -- or soon may be -- tested in clinical trials that could open the...
New Technology Can Be Operated By Thought
ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2007) — Neuroscientists have significantly advanced brain-machine interface (BMI) technology to the point where severely handicapped people who cannot contract even...
Woman battles back from spinal cord injury
A San Antonio woman has made a remarkable recovery from an accident that could have left her bedridden.
Her story of recovery is nothing short...
Quick action key with neck injuries
This is the second article in a three-part series about head and neck injuries in football and how prepared local sports programs are in...
This is about finding cures, not cloning humans
AS I SEE IT: This is about finding cures, not cloning humans
I am a bit perplexed as to who Cures Without Cloning is actually...
