Tag: Drugs and Medication
Long road ahead for stem cell initiative
A $3 billion state proposition to promote controversial stem cell research in California qualified Thursday for the November ballot, opening what promises to be...
Freezing Cord Blood and Stem Cells – Should You or Shouldn’t You?
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004--The mere mention of stem cell research can stimulate a heated discussion among the medical and non-medical crowd alike. However, there...
Cell, Drug Combo Heals Rat Spines
Similar treatment could help people who are paralyzed
A combination therapy using transplanted cells and two experimental drugs has significantly improved function in paralyzed rats.
A...
The Hartford and U.S. Paralympics In Annapolis to Promote ‘Ability’ in the Workplace
National Tour Educates American Companies on Hiring, Retaining Employees with Disabilities
SIMSBURY, Conn., May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE: HIG -...
Two techniques combined to treat spinal cord injury
Two techniques that had been previously developed to treat spinal cord injury in animals work effectively when combined, allowing deliberately injured rats to regain...
Combination Therapy Dramatically Improves Function After Spinal Cord Injury In Rats
A combination therapy using transplanted cells plus two experimental drugs significantly improves function in paralyzed rats, a new study shows. The results suggest that...
Rats Regrow Damaged Nerves
The research was supported by the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Buoniconti Fund.
A combination of therapies helped...
Stem Cell Spinal Nerves Break Through
Exiting of spinal cord a step to their use for treating paralysis
Stem cell-derived nerves have been prompted to migrate through the spinal cord in...
Robotic technology teaches spinal cord injury patients to walk again
A 50-year-old man paralyzed from the neck down in a devastating motorcycle accident a year ago is learning to walk again with the help...
Cong candidate in Mumbai hospital
Gandhinagar, April 24: Congress candidate from Mehsana Jivabhai Patel, who was taken to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital after an attack on him on the election...
