Yearly Archives: 2004
No ‘high’ from cannabis pain drugs?
Scientists believe they may have found a way for cannabis chemicals to relieve chronic pain - without the "high" linked with the drug.
The team,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
