Tag: Miracle

Pediatric center to offer novel rehabilitation approach for spinal cord injury

Kennedy Krieger Institute today opens the doors of its International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, the world's first center focused on Rehabilitation and restoration...

We have to overcome this hope barrier

Ten minutes after a recent announcement that South Korean scientists had discovered an efficient way to produce stem cells, the world's largest spinal cord...

Spinal Cord Injury Treatment and Cure Research

When someone sustains a spinal cord injury (SCI), one of the most difficult issues to deal with is that there is no "cure" at...

Pushing for a miracle

Spinal cord patients will gather to urge lawmakers to pass paralysis act All Chaz Southard was looking for that August day in 2002 was a...

Back on His Feet

MIRACLE man John Burgess is back on his feet and defying doctors' diagnosis just six months after being told he might never walk again. Doctors...

‘BrainGate’ Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape

An implantable, brain-computer interface the size of an aspirin has been clinically tested on humans by American company Cyberkinetics. The 'BrainGate' device can provide...

Stem Cell Therapy Answer to Uncurable Diseases

Patients paralyzed by injuries to their spinal cords have the hope of walking again thanks to stem cell therapy, which is expected to become...

Wrestling Coach Temporarily Paralyzed By Injury

Coach Considers Himself 'Blessed,' Not Lucky BALTIMORE -- A high school wrestling coach who was 15 minutes away from being paralyzed says he's blessed. On Nov....

A Stem Cell Christmas Miracle?

A report earlier this week that South Korean researchers have used stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood to help a woman with a...

Paralyzed woman walks again after stem cell therapy

=SEOUL : A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells...