Tag: Darek Fidyka
Cure for spinal cord injuries nose ahead with nasal cell transplants
QUEENSLAND researchers are a step closer to human trials of a potential treatment for spinal cord injuries involving transplants of nasal cells combined with...
One Small Step
A paraplegic undergoes pioneering surgery.
When a spinal cord is damaged, location is destiny: the higher the injury, the more severe the effects. The spine...
Ten remarkable breakthroughs in the treatment of paralysis
After a man completely paralysed from the waist down became the first paraplegic patient to walk without relying on manually operated robotic limbs, ITV News looks at ten remarkable breakthroughs in paralysis treatment.
Cardiff man paralysed in major accident urges caution over ‘breakthrough’ on spinal cord injuries
A sound technician whose spine was shattered in a major accident has urged caution over a “breakthrough” procedure which enabled a man to walk...
Paralysed man Darek Fidyka walks again after treatment by British doctors on brink of...
Sufferers can now be offered the possibility of cure thanks to a revolutionary implant of regenerative cells
Millions of paralysis sufferers are today offered the...
To walk again – the people behind the story
It is a moment I will always remember. On a warm summer's day in Wroclaw, Poland, Darek Fidyka walked across a bridge, using only...
