Tag: Medical Research
Human trial to use stem cells to treat spinal cord injury
A patient paralysed through spinal cord injury has become the first person to receive human embryonic stem (ES) cell treatment in a clinical trial...
Appeals court grants stay in stem cell case
The federal government will be allowed to keep funding stem cell research — for now.
An Aug. 23 ruling by a U.S. District Court judge...
New Research Demonstrates Safety of Cord-blood-derived Stem Cell Treatments
Beike Biotechnology and Medistem, Inc. Report on 114 Patients Treated With Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell Protocol; New Approach Opens Door to Expanded Uses...
First tests for stem cell therapy are near
Even as supporters of human embryonic stem cell research are reeling from last week's sudden cutoff of federal funding, another portentous landmark is quietly...
Department of Defense Gives $5.4 Million to Spinal Cord Injury Research
HOUSTON, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Department of Defense (DoD) awarded the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation a $5.4 million grant to...
Adult stem cell research far ahead of embryonic
NEW YORK — A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn't heal, even with multiple...
Researchers advance spinal cord injury treatments
(PhysOrg.com) -- A full recovery from a spinal cord injury? Don't hold your breath. Actually, according to Gordon Mitchell, a professor of neurosciences at...
State Budget Puts Spinal Cord Injury Research in Jeopardy
State trooper Paul Richter was lying on the ground, looking up at the man who had just shot him. Death seemed all but certain....
Research network for spinal cord injury beginning clinical trial
Many treatments to limit or reverse the devastating results of spinal cord injury have shown promise in the laboratory yet have never been brought...
Getting a kick out of research
A Dalhousie University professor and an international team of researchers have discovered what makes us kick.
Dr. Rob Brownstone, along with colleagues in New York...