Tag: Drugs and Medication

Human Stem Cell Transplants Repair Rat Spinal Cords

Science Daily — Human nerve stem cells transplanted into rats' damaged spinal cords have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats'...

Stem-Cell Refugees

Yanks are flocking to China for therapy August, 2002. Chuck Melton, a burly 24-year-old factory worker, is living a good life in southern Illinois. He...

Stem cells to provide donor source for transplantation, tissue generation

Stem cells could provide unlimited donor source for transplantation and tissue generation in vitro. The application of stem cells is to restore functions in...

New hope for spinal cord injury patients

ISLAMABAD: Tiny nerves taken from the rib cage, fortified with a powerful growth inducer and transplanted in the spinal cord significantly reversed paralysis in...

First Middle East Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Conference opens today at Arab Health

The UAE needs more Rehabilitation facilities and specialists to ensure quality of life and function for its injured and disabled population, experts from the...

Plano East wrestler receives support

Donations roll in for Plano East junior, who faces more surgery today Ammon Butcher was never a star as a high school wrestler. His...

Survey of Pain and Fatigue in Adults with Disabilities

NOW RECRUITING! Announcing a new study of pain and fatigue in adults with Multiple Sclerosis and spinal cord injury. PURPOSE Pain and fatigue are the most common...

19-year old woman paralyzed in sledding accident

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Sledding accidents sent hundreds of people to the emergency room last year, most of them children, and a sledding...

Cost of rehab puts limits on patients

CORTNEY HOFFMAN'S CHALLENGE: She pushes for independence Whether she's tired or not, Cortney Hoffman wakes up before dawn, three days a week, to make the...

Md. cannot afford to lag in stem cell research race

Congress will probably pass a bill to finance embryonic stem cell research with federal dollars, but President Bush will certainly veto it because of...