Tag: Cure
Obama Is Leaving Some Stem Cell Issues to Congress
WASHINGTON — While lifting the Bush administration’s restrictions on federally financed human embryonic stem cell research, President Obama intends to avoid the thorniest question...
Stem Cell-ebration
By wide majorities, Americans love stem cell research. According to Gallup numbers 64% find it morally acceptable, and 52% support easing the restrictions or...
Stem-cell policy change liberating to researchers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years of frustration are close to an end for scientists seeking ways to use embryonic stem cells to combat illness...
Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009
In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first human trials of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. The...
Stem Cell Breakthrough By Mount Sinai Hospital Researcher
In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells...
Canadians make stem cell breakthrough
Canadian researchers have found what could be a new way to make embryonic-like stem cells, a discovery that could lead to cures for devastating...
Man receives therapy in China
HOYLETON — As a speech therapist who works in the King City and surrounding area, Kelly Melton knows how difficult it is to overcome...
Tackling spinal cord injuries
Dr. Ragnarsson is a physiatrist (specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation) and professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai....
Stem cell ‘cure’ boy gets tumour
A boy treated with foetal stem cells for a rare genetic disease has developed benign tumours, raising questions about the therapy's safety.
The boy, now...
Whatever happened to: Travis Roy
Eleven seconds was all it took to change Travis Roy’s life.
As a freshman at Boston University in 1995, Roy lived his dream of playing...