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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Mexico discovers relief for spinal cord injuries

Developed at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City, a polymer shows promise to restore damaged spinal cords in human patients. Mexican researchers have synthesized...

Engineering Angiogenesis Following Spinal Cord Injury

Engineering angiogenesis following spinal cord injury: building functional, stable blood vessels and promoting the formation of the blood-spinal cord barrier

To Have Courage Trailer

Jen French suffered from a snowboarding accident resulting in a severe spinal injury.

"I'll Be Alright" trailer

In the early morning hours of Dec. 24, 2004 track worker Armando Gonzales was struck by a security vehicle rendering him a C2 quadriplegic.

Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain

AURORA, Colo., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine say manipulating embryo-derived stem cell precursors prior...

The Peer Program (BC Paraplegic Association)

Jean Potvin was a workaholic who suffered a terrifying accident on the job that broke his back and left him a paraplegic.

Sole Use Of Impaired Limb Improves Recovery In Spinal Cord Injury

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2008) — A new study finds that following minor spinal cord injury, rats that had to use impaired limbs showed full...

Paraplegic balloon pilot hasn’t let injury ground him

KAYSVILLE - Michael Glen hasn't let a Disability tether his dreams. Like his father, Glen wanted to be a hot air balloon pilot. But after...

The European Commission Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Alseres Pharmaceuticals’ Spinal Cord Injury Treatment,...

HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: ALSE - News) announced today that Cethrin has been granted designation as an orphan...

Breakthrough in spinal injury treatment

Manipulating embryo-derived stem cells before transplanting them may hold the key to optimizing stem cell technologies for repairing spinal cord injuries in humans. Research...