Tag: Medical Technology
VA Boosts Services and Research in Spinal Cord Injury
(Media-Newswire.com) - MILWAUKEE – During a ground-breaking ceremony today for a world-class facility for spinal cord injuries, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson committed...
New Device Helps People Walk Again
Cutting-edge technology at a Rehabilitation center in Boston is helping some patients learn to walk again. The device is called a Lokomat, and it...
One of First Patients to Be Implanted with Cyberkinetics’ Andara(TM) OFS(TM) System for Spinal...
Patient treated with Andara(TM) OFS(TM) Therapy for acute spinal cord injury will discuss his progress and the need to support promising new therapies for...
Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Joins InVivo Therapeutics Team
Richard Roberts, PhD, to advise on molecular biology of traumatic spinal cord injury
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, a medical device company focused on restoring...
Top broker doesn’t let paralysis stop him from realizing dreams
Eric Northbrook is well known throughout the San Diego County real estate community as one of the region's top brokers.
Now, the Cushman & Wakefield...
Funding to upgrade stem cell research facilities at UC San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Human Stem Cell Core Facility, which supports multiple research projects using stem cells to advance the understanding...
Geron Parades New Stem-Cell Finding
Geron (GERN) is strutting its stuff.
The California-based Biotechnology company kicked off a busy week -- which includes a big cancer-related conference -- with news...
Sharing a hard lesson
It was close to midnight on a hot June night in 1992 when Eric Wildt dived into a friend's in-ground swimming pool.
His head hit...
Research shows big strides start with small steps
Jeff Adams looked up from his wheelchair at the Bloorview Kids Rehab centre yesterday and saw what might have been.
Coming toward him was Nicholas...
Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations...
