Tag: Drugs and Medication

Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain

AURORA, Colo., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine say manipulating embryo-derived stem cell precursors prior...

Sole Use Of Impaired Limb Improves Recovery In Spinal Cord Injury

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2008) — A new study finds that following minor spinal cord injury, rats that had to use impaired limbs showed full...

The European Commission Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Alseres Pharmaceuticals’ Spinal Cord Injury Treatment,...

HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: ALSE - News) announced today that Cethrin has been granted designation as an orphan...

Breakthrough in spinal injury treatment

Manipulating embryo-derived stem cells before transplanting them may hold the key to optimizing stem cell technologies for repairing spinal cord injuries in humans. Research...

Sole use of impaired limb improves recovery in spinal cord injury

Animal study shows Physical Therapy works by increasing growth of nerve fibers and formation of brain cell connections A new study finds that following minor...

The First 72 Hours After SCI: Clinical Practice Guidelines

The Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine has released "Early Acute Management in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury," a guide to managing the critical first...

Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycan May Have Many Roles In Spinal Cord Injury Repair

The proteoglycan chondroitin sulfate (CSPG) plays an important role not just in the formation of the glial scar but also in the repair of...

Diabetes and Spinal Cord Injury

People with spinal cord disorders are more Prone than most to developing type 2 diabetes. But the condition can be managed and even reversed...

Blowing away a sniff of a cure

Andrew Commons is determined to walk again - utterly determined. As well as following an intensive daily exercise regime, he's also undergone courses of...

BEIJING OLYMPICS: Third Olympics, a second chance

KAYAKING: Newport Beach paddler among medal contenders in sprint events following spinal surgery in 2004. Rami Zur went to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,...