Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Recovery
Local woman credits foreign stem cell surgery for recovery
TEMPERANCE, MI -- Cortney Hoffman is on the road to recovery. Nearly seven years ago the then 16-year-old rolled from Temperance her car,...
Bone marrow stem cell injections may help cure spinal cord injury
Washington: Injecting a patient's own bone marrow-derived stem cells
into the spinal column using multiple routes can be an effective treatment for spinal cord...
Obama Is Leaving Some Stem Cell Issues to Congress
WASHINGTON — While lifting the Bush administration’s restrictions on federally financed human embryonic stem cell research, President Obama intends to avoid the thorniest question...
Bringing Purpose to All Forms of Human Life: Thoughts on Stem Cell Research
Matthew Sanford writes: My wife Jennifer and I have a nine-year-old son named Paul. We are both his biological and everyday parents....
Cheerios salutes wheelchair athlete
As head of the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratory, Rory Cooper is helping to guide emerging technologies and treatments to improve mobility...
Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009
In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first human trials of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. The...
A homecoming to remember
It was a homecoming to remember as Central welcomed back J. Johnson and honored him as the school’s basketball king on Friday night.
It was...
U.S. approves first human embryonic stem cell study
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first human trials of human embryonic stem cell research, authorizing...
Paralyzed race car driver applauds FDA stem cell approval
Indianapolis - It could be a major step forward for stem cell research and patients paralyzed with spinal cord injuries. An American biotech company...
ATV accident victim on road to recovery
'It's amazing how she's tackling' tragedy
After a tragic summer accident 18-year-old Tyhme Thompson was told that she would never walk again.
"My surgeon told...
