Tag: Drugs and Medication
First stem cell trials might start in O.C.
An Irvine company could be the first to win federal approval for clinical trials.
A tiny start-up company in Irvine has a shot at becoming...
Power to the Paralyzed
For patients with paralyzing spinal cord injuries, sometimes it takes more than medicine and Physical Therapy to help get them on the road to...
New report shows locomotor training restores walking function in child with spinal cord injury
Central Nervous System may be retrained, report led by Physical Therapist shows
ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 4, 2008)—A new report shows that a non-ambulatory (unable to...
A new approach to paralysis rehab
Book looks at family challenges
Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects an estimated 12,000 people each year, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center....
Student innovations benefit patients
Every other weekday morning, a patient named Joe swims in the 12th-floor pool of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Having sustained a C6-C7 spinal...
One man’s quest to walk again
Editor's note: Paralysis after a spinal cord injury brings wrenching decisions: Do you accept it as permanent and adapt, or do you refuse to...
Varied therapies for spinal cord injury
There is no cure for a spinal cord injury, but much headway has been made in clinical research that could lead to one. Other...
Quick Decompression Aids Spinal Injury Recovery
(HealthDay News) -- Patients having decompression surgery within 24 hours of a Cervical spinal cord injury may have a better outcome than those who...
Spinal cord injury research hampered by animal models
Scientists say difficulty lies in extrapolating animal data to humans
Washington—Research on traumatic spinal cord injuries is hampered by a reliance on animal experiments that...
The Quest for a Cure: Paving the Way in Paraplegic Research
World's Leading Spinal Cord Scientists Meet in Salzburg, Austria
SANTA MONICA, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 28, 2008 -- The foremost spinal cord injury researchers from the U.S....
