Tag: Medical Research

Combination Strategy Promotes Better Recovery of Walking

Investigators at The Miami Project have designed a new triple combination strategy that opens up new possibilities in the search for successful treatments for...

Senator Pushes Adult Stem Cells

A Senate hearing on stem cells generated heated discussions Wednesday despite the best efforts of the senator in charge. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) opened the...

Post-doctoral fellow to study spinal cord interneurons with Reeve grant

The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation has awarded Steven Crone, a post-doctoral fellow in Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, a two-year grant of $120,000 to conduct...

Senate Hearing on Adult Stem Cell Research Has Tempers Flaring

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- It was supposed to focus on "good news" associated with advances made in the field of adult stem cell research,...

Don’t bet against him

MT. VERNON — Had he been able, he would have leaped out of his bed, fists raised. If his legs had responded, if his...

Antibody Block Helps Regenerate Spinal Cord

An Antibody treatment that neutralizes a nerve growth inhibitor has repaired damaged spinal cords in rats and could do the same in humans. Researcher Lisa...

Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Supports Brain-Computer Interface Breakthrough

SPRINGFIELD, N.J., July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The July 9, 2004 edition of Science reports on an exciting study, "Cognitive Control Signals for Neural...

Machine Helps Spinal Injury Patients

The following Healthcast report by medical editor Marilyn Brooks first aired July 9, 2004, on Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m. For the last...

Nerve Cells Successfully Regenerated Following Spinal Cord Injury

Newswise — Using a combination of therapies and cell grafts, a team of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers has...

Tissue-Protective Cytokine Technology in Neurologic Injury

OSSINING, N.Y., July 8/PRNewswire/ -- Warren Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Warren), a company engaged in developing novel treatments for devastating injuries and diseases, today announced the...