Tag: Medical Research

Paralyzed man donates $1M

Tim Reynolds is not just any ordinary guy. He has it all — a wife and three children, a house overlooking the Navesink River,...

Tales From the Stem Cell Crypt

La Jolla, CA. February 2007 —Regenerative medicine is quickly moving forward. At the recent Stem Cells World Congress organized by Select Biosciences, LLC, in...

New Spinal Cord Treatment Available

Therapy Offers Some Patients New Hope BOSTON -- It's been one year since Dana Reeve passed away. Dana and her husband, the late actor Christopher...

Top riders raise spinal injury awareness

Mary King, Jeanette Brakewell, Francis Whittington and other top riders are hosting a series of training demonstrations to raise money and awareness for Spinal...

JHM Alliance Awards Foster Technology Development

The JHM Alliance for Science and Technology Development, a group of high-level business executives that assists School of Medicine faculty in commercializing their inventions,...

Rejection of stem cell procedure dashes hopes

Karen Jones dreams of being able to use her hands again. But the 29-year-old Auckland tetraplegic fears her brightest hope may be dashed after a...

Christopher Reeve Foundation Unveils New Name Honoring Dana Reeve’s Legacy On First Anniversary of...

Organization to be known as Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation reflecting partnership, courage and compassion of the Reeves SHORT HILLS, N.J., March 1 /PRNewswire/ --...

Fast and slow – How the spinal cord controls the speed of movement

Cornell research may have implications for treating human ITHACA, N.Y. -- Using a state-of-the-art technique to map neurons in the spinal cord of a larval...

Cord blood promises life

A state Senate bill calls for a program to educate expecting parents on the benefits of donating umbilical cord blood to stem cell research. MORE...

Senate OKs stem-cell study

Despite its current financial crisis, the Illinois Senate voted Friday to approve grant funding for embryonic and adult stem-cell research. Senate Bill 4, which passed...