Tag: Hope
Researchers Identify Genes That Foster Blood Cell Development From Stem Cells
For a child with leukemia or lymphoma, a donation of umbilical cord blood can be a lifesaver. But cords contain only a small amount...
New NIH director says research will change face of U.S. medicine
DETROIT - (KRT) - Dr. Elias Zerhouni has begun his third year as director of the National Institutes of Health, the country's leading medical...
How surgeons rebuilt shattered spine
Matthew Hunt will walk again thanks to the skill of a Norfolk surgical team. Health Correspondent MARK NICHOLLS looks at how they re-built...
Crespi graduate overcomes injury through perseverance, exercise therapy
Mike McNamara's light blue-green eyes fairly glisten as he talks about walking on the USC campus this fall as a college freshman. Only two-and-a-half...
Teens with spinal cord injuries
Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...
Fight isn’t over, but polio on brink of eradication
Wiping out polio is proving tougher than expected, but world health experts say the disease's demise is tantalizingly near.
In 1988, there were 350,000 cases....
IS IT WORTH BANKING YOUR BABY’S CORD BLOOD?
When Lisa Recker was pregnant, she was inundated with ads touting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make the "best investment" in the future health of...
Purdue Scientists May Have Found Key to Halting Spinal Cord Damage
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows...
Insulting Their Injuries
When President Bush Says Stem Cell Research ‘devalues Life,' What Is He Telling The Gravely Injured Troops Back From Iraq?
More than 12,000 soldiers...
A father apart with lots of heart
For Brian Vail of Mount Gilead, the answer has been to live for 10 years with the debilitating Lou Gehrig's Disease, or amyotrophic lateral...
