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Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans...

Veterans Groups Express Need for Mandatory Funding of VA Health Care

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As veterans across the country continue to face health care rationing and longer waiting times due to inadequate...

Key advance reported in regenerating nerve fibers

Two-pronged approach synergizes growth Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have advanced a decades-old quest to get injured nerves to regenerate. By...

ESPN’S Superior Beings Presentation:

ESPN'S Superior Beings Presentation: Extraordinary Athletes With Disabilities Use Sports to Change Misfortune to Triumph ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE) has produced a compelling documentary that...

Stem Cells Found In Adults May Repair Nerves

It used to be considered dogma that a nerve, once injured, could never be repaired. Now, researchers have learned that some nerves, even nerves...

Fountain of Neurons Created

Immortalized stem-like cells could provide a limitless supply of spinal cord and brain replacement parts A method of producing an unlimited supply of human neurons...

Pell City to build house for Montgomerys

PELL CITY — As sunlight streamed across Mays Bend Road Friday morning, the group of people standing near lot 9 of the Woodland Hills...

Spinal cords fixed in tests

With a genetic tweak, scientists have created an unlimited supply of a type of nerve cells found in the spinal cord and have been...

Spinal research planned for Nov.

Benefit ball raises $1 million toward facility to search for ways to cure injuries DEARBORN — Doctors want to find a cure for spinal cord...

Man hurt in surgery to get $3.6 million

Jury: Surgeon breached standard of care during operation at Christiana Hospital A federal jury in Wilmington awarded a Chesapeake City, Md., man $3.6 million Friday...