Tag: Medical Research
Recent injuries highlight hazards of the game
Heading into week four and putting a quarter of the regular season in the books for most teams, there have two major neck injuries...
Red Bull-backed Wings For Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation Comes To America
It happens every 41 minutes: somebody in the U.S. sustains a spinal cord injury. This epidemic, which affects more than 2.5 million people worldwide,...
A chill down the spine
The quick and cooling treatment of Buffalo Bills' Kevin Everett spurs interest in its use in spinal cord injuries.
Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett's...
Transplants Using Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Restore Functions for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
PrimeCell Therapeutics Provides Research Support
Preliminary Results Involving 38 Patients Presented at 2007 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PrimeCell(TM) Therapeutics LLC http://www.primegenbiotech.com/pg08/) today...
One player’s pain paying off for fallen Bill
MIAMI: This is a story about good karma, with a tough beginning, a ton of tears, but a happy ending.
On Oct. 26, 1985, a...
To Wait or Not to Wait: Overseas’ Stem Cell Treatments
We at Stemblog have decided to weigh in on the medical tourism issue, which is fueled by the lack of adequate curative treatments available...
Steps to a Cure
Kevin Everett, the Buffalo Bills player who was paralyzed after breaking his neck on the football field, will soon walk. That’s what doctors said...
New Spinal Cord Injuries Study Says Conducting Surgeries Earlier Could Prevent More Nerve Damage
A new study reveals that conducting surgeries earlier when treating spinal cord injuries could lead to better results and less damage to injury victims.
Currently,...
Nonprofit group aids injured athletes
Eighteen-year-old Lars Veen, a freeskier from Norway, was training for a competition in Mammoth Mountain, Calif., when he overshot a landing during a jump,...
Spine Injury Breakthroughs – Hope for Injured NFL Athlete
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Within minutes of the hit that left Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett lying on the turf with a...
