Tag: Cure

Beware the chair

Travis Oldhouser proves Quad rugby isn't for the scared, soft or squeamish PHILADELPHIA - Metal slammed into metal in the middle of the gym. Bodies...

Doctors treat spinal cord injury with stem cell therapy

Doctors at a hospital here have claimed they successfully used stem cell therapy to enable a 25-year-old man, who injured his spinal cord in...

Senate OKs stem-cell study

Despite its current financial crisis, the Illinois Senate voted Friday to approve grant funding for embryonic and adult stem-cell research. Senate Bill 4, which passed...

Stem-cell legislation a turning point for Iowa

In the next few days, the Iowa General Assembly will have the opportunity of a generation: It can improve the quality of life for...

Centocor Successor’s Goal: Stem-Cell Treatments

PHILADELPHIA _ Not in her wildest dreams did Anne Faulkner Schoemaker imagine she would one day run the small Malvern, Pa., company on the...

‘I think Allison will walk again’

Dr. John Kessler was working in his office when he received word his daughter, Allison, had been seriously hurt in a skiing accident. Kessler is...

Paralyzed men can be fathers

CHICAGO -- In the weeks following the car accident that left him paralyzed below the waist, Geoff Luther was haunted by worries that he’d...

Over $40 Million In Stem Cell Grants Awarded

Gov. Schwarzenegger In Burlingame Feb. 16 - KGO - It was an historic day for stem cell research. The first grants were made today to...

California Stem Cell Debate Goes Back To Court

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- The fight over control of $3 billion worth of funding for stem cell research in California goes back to...

Designers roll out their latest lines: Chic wheelchairs

If you can't stand up, stand out. That has been Marilyn Hamilton's motto ever since she was paralyzed from the waist down in a hang-gliding...