Friday, March 29, 2024

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...