Tag: Drugs and Medication
Purdue researchers work on drug to relieve spinal cord injuries
Purdue University researchers are working to develop a drug that could reverse some spinal cord injuries as well as other neurological traumas.
Richard Borgens, founder...
Spinal Cord Injury Repaired By New Type of Stem Cells
New Type of Cells Repair Injuries
Researchers have found that transplanting a certain type of immature support cell from the Central Nervous System could regenerate...
Stem-Cell Tech Improves Spinal-Cord Injury
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- A new stem-cell technology has allowed rats with spinal-cord injuries to walk again within two weeks, an advance...
Stem cell implant is outside mainstream
SOUTH BEND -- In his quest to help victims of spinal cord injury, Dr. Steven Hinderer admits he's ventured outside the comfort zone of...
UI Research Aims To Help Patients With Spinal Cord Injury
Richard Shields, Ph.D., University of Iowa professor in the Graduate Program in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, can foresee a time when it might...
Brain Cells From Adults Repair Spinal Cord Injury in Mice
Scientists from Canada have found that spinal cord paralysis in rats can be eased / repaired by transplanting brain cells taken from the adult...
Spinal Cord Injury and Pregnancy
Spinal cord trauma is most often due to accidents and usually involve the Cervical and Thoracic spine. Spinal cord injuries do not prevent conception,...
Focus On Spinal Cord Injury And Prosthetics
The current issue of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD Vol. 42) includes eight articles on spinal cord injury--addressing topics such as...
Illinois woman undergoes experimental stem-cell surgery in Portugal
Within weeks of experimental stem-cell surgery Oct. 29 in Portugal, Jacki Rabon - paralyzed from the waist down after an auto accident two years...
Restorative Therapies, Inc., Receives FDA Clearance for RT300-S Internet Connectivity
Restorative Therapies, Inc., a designer and supplier of medical devices, today announced FDA clearance of internet connectivity for its breakthrough medical device, the RT300-S,...
