Tag: Drugs and Medication

American Football most likely to cause neck injury

According to new research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, (American) football beats hockey and soccer for the dubious distinction of the...

Company gets rights to paralysis treatment

By Max Showalter, Journal and Courier A life sciences company formed just four months ago in the Purdue Research Park has been given the green...

UCI Skips HQ for Stem Cell Work

By Rick Reiff - Orange County Business Journal Staff Ten areas are bidding to become the headquarters for the California Institute of Regenera-tive Medicine, the...

Expression profile of EphA receptors after spinal cord injury in adult rats

Researchers are looking at molecular activities that occur early in development that "come back" after trauma, such as a spinal cord Lesion. They observed such...

New Avenues of Research Open for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries

Concerted National Effort Needed To Develop New Therapies Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Recent discoveries about the Central Nervous System's capacity for Regeneration and repair...

AANS Applauds Institute of Medicine’s Spinal Cord Injury Report

Newswise — According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), as many as 250,000 people are living in the United States with spinal...

Maryland must explore stem cells’ promise

OVERWHELMING scientific opinion supports embryonic stem cell research, and many believe it has the potential to revolutionize medicine. The American Medical Association and the National...

Acorda Therapeutics Launches ZANAFLEX CAPSULES for the Management of Spasticity in People with MS...

HAWTHORNE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)Acorda Therapeutics(R) announced today that it has launched ZANAFLEX(R) CAPSULES (tizanidine hydrochloride), a new, capsule formulation of tizanidine, a leading treatment for...

Moving Stem Cells Front and Center

IRVINE, Calif. - Hans S. Keirstead might be the Pied Piper of stem cells - and not just because he makes rats walk. He...

Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injury

Maintaining a healthy sex life after spinal cord injury is an important priority to many people. Fortunately, over the past few years a large...