Monthly Archives: November 2010
Just the beginning: Embryonic stem cells used on first patient
For the first time, surgeons have injected a spinal cord injury patient with human embryonic stem cells in a federally approved experiment, a biomedical...
Lives changed forever
IT is Spinal Injuries Awareness Week. For Mackay’s Luke Simmons and his family, sending out the message of how a spinal cord injury can...
Spinal Injuries Awareness Week
Meet Martin Hume. Almost three years ago the 21-year-old from Elanora on the Gold Coast suffered major spinal injuries after a wakeboarding accident only...
Monkey Business in Concord
How a Capuchin monkey aids the life of a 27-year-old Concord man and his big family.
Ned Sullivan is taking it one day at a...
We should support stem cell research
I have very strong feelings about the support of stem cell research, and I should – I have a friend whose life could be...
Gering man walks again
After spinal cord injury, Mark Rexus was told by doctors that he wouldn’t
After suffering a spinal cord injury in a work-related accident, doctors told...
Promise of stem cells fulfilled
clinical trial in Atlanta, Georgia, is proof that informed public debate is the key to medical advance
IF I'm honest, my first reaction to recent...
‘Second Opinion’ takes prime-time look at spinal cord injuries
ROCHESTER -- Spinal cord injuries -- which more than 11,000 American suffer each year -- will be the focus of a special edition of...
What research brings spinal cord-injured patients closer to a cure?
Millions of people worldwide experience spinal cord injuries. Breakthroughs bring researchers progress, but a complete cure is a long way off
Spinal cord repair focuses...
Devizes spinal injury man rows ‘boat’
Paralysed Devizes man Andrew Farrow is taking part in a ground-breaking medical study which involves him rowing 100 kilometres.
Mr Farrow, 45, is paralysed from...
