Tag: Government

Nominate someone for the SCI Hall of Fame! Deadline Aug.15

Nominations for the 2007 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Hall of Fame are officially open! Anyone can nominate candidates in any of 14 categories by completing...

Paralysis Victim Uses Record Jury Award to Give Back

Family of Man Confined to a Wheelchair and Attorneys Donate $1 Million to The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A man left forever...

We are praying for a miracle

MUMBAI: A year after the bomb blast in a local train at Khar Road severely incapacitated 22-year-old Chirag Chauhan, life is still a big...

Journey just begun on stem cell research

The passing of a bill overturning a ban on therapeutic cloning in NSW allows stem cell research to start, but the journey will be...

Violence taxes Baghdad’s spinal injury hospital

Some patients wait a year to get only such care in the city Baghdad -- Mohammed Abdul Hussein moans as he tries to shift his...

Disgraced scientist back in lab

From the crack of dawn until late at night, stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk is at work in the lab, hoping to restore his...

The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Expresses Disappointment Over President Bush’s Veto of the...

(Short Hills, NJ) - The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (CDRF), the national, non-profit organization dedicated to finding cures and treatments for spinal cord...

Bush vetoes bill aimed at promoting stem cell research

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vetoing a stem cell bill for the second time, President Bush on Wednesday sought to placate those who disagree with him...

One of First Patients to Be Implanted with Cyberkinetics’ Andara(TM) OFS(TM) System for Spinal...

Patient treated with Andara(TM) OFS(TM) Therapy for acute spinal cord injury will discuss his progress and the need to support promising new therapies for...

Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Joins InVivo Therapeutics Team

Richard Roberts, PhD, to advise on molecular biology of traumatic spinal cord injury CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, a medical device company focused on restoring...