Tag: Drugs and Medication

Drug can help patients heal from spinal cord injuries

According to the Spinal Cord Injury Information Network, there are about 11,000 new spinal cord injuries each year. Car accidents have been responsible for...

Spine Injury Breakthroughs – Hope for Injured NFL Athlete

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Within minutes of the hit that left Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett lying on the turf with a...

Taichung hospital joins spinal cord injury group

China Medical University Hospital in Taichung has joined the China Spinal Cord Injury Network (ChinaSCINet) to conduct experiments into the effectiveness of stem cell...

Experimental therapy may ease spinal cord injury

An experimental body cooling treatment used on an injured National Football League player offers promise for preventing paralysis in people who sustain severe spinal...

MDs Use Experimental Cooling on Everett

Doctors are following the playbook in treating Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett's severe spinal cord injury except in one notable regard: pumping icy...

Buffalo Bills’ Everett May Walk Again

Sept. 12, 2007 -- Hospitalized Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett has moved his arms and legs, raising hopes that he may one day...

Miracles Do Exist for Spinal Cord Injuries

Not so very long ago, injuring your spinal cord meant paralysis, perhaps death. The higher the injury, the worse the prognosis. For instance, if...

Tadalafil Helps Spinal Cord Injury Patients With Erectile Dysfunction

Men with spinal cord injuries appear to have better erectile function when they take tadalafil, according to a report published in Archives of Neurology...

New DVD aimed at reducing spinal injuries

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Football players usually hoot and holler when viewing tapes of bone-crunching hits. Recently, however, the West Florida High Jaguars could only gasp...

Mobility treatment

A team at University College London is developing a spinal canal implant that could improve the quality of life and life expectancy for people...