Tag: Medical Research
No ‘high’ from cannabis pain drugs?
Scientists believe they may have found a way for cannabis chemicals to relieve chronic pain - without the "high" linked with the drug.
The team,...
Veterans Groups Express Need for Mandatory Funding of VA Health Care
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As veterans across the country continue to face health care rationing and longer waiting times due to inadequate...
Stem Cells Found In Adults May Repair Nerves
It used to be considered dogma that a nerve, once injured, could never be repaired. Now, researchers have learned that some nerves, even nerves...
Key advance reported in regenerating nerve fibers
Two-pronged approach synergizes growth
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have advanced a decades-old quest to get injured nerves to regenerate. By...
Fountain of Neurons Created
Immortalized stem-like cells could provide a limitless supply of spinal cord and brain replacement parts
A method of producing an unlimited supply of human neurons...
Spinal cords fixed in tests
With a genetic tweak, scientists have created an unlimited supply of a type of nerve cells found in the spinal cord and have been...
Spinal research planned for Nov.
Benefit ball raises $1 million toward facility to search for ways to cure injuries
DEARBORN — Doctors want to find a cure for spinal cord...
BOEC lands “Quality of Life’ grant
BRECKENRIDGE - The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) has awarded the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC) a $10,000 Quality of Life Grant as part...
‘I would do anything . . . if there was any chance’
Eric Coffman, of Denver, was a 19-year-old Colorado School of Mines student when he damaged his spinal cord snowboarding in 2001.
He flew to Israel...
Promise for the paralyzed
Groundbreaking procedure at Craig Hospital offers hope to those with spinal injuries
ENGLEWOOD - A skid into a tree, a bad fall on an icy...
