Monthly Archives: February 2004
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...
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...
How does the spinal cord work?
Neurons (nerve cells) in the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerve send axons (nerve fibers) up and down the spinal cord in spinal...
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...
BOEC lands “Quality of Life’ grant
BRECKENRIDGE - The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) has awarded the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC) a $10,000 Quality of Life Grant as part...
‘I would do anything . . . if there was any chance’
Eric Coffman, of Denver, was a 19-year-old Colorado School of Mines student when he damaged his spinal cord snowboarding in 2001.
He flew to Israel...
Promise for the paralyzed
Groundbreaking procedure at Craig Hospital offers hope to those with spinal injuries
ENGLEWOOD - A skid into a tree, a bad fall on an icy...
‘I remember what it was like to have nothing – no feeling’
Melissa Holley, the first person in the world to get macrophage injections for a spinal cord injury, is a believer.
"I can't ignore the fact...
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...
