Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Eastwood Continues Disability Vendetta with “Million Dollar Baby”
Bethesda, Md. - Score one for Clint Eastwood for his award winning film, "Million Dollar Baby," a brilliantly executed attack on life after spinal...
Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injury
Maintaining a healthy sex life after spinal cord injury is an important priority to many people. Fortunately, over the past few years a large...
Clint Eastwood and ‘opportunism’
"I think it's opportunism."
Clint Eastwood, talking to the Los Angeles Times's Chris Lee, was referring to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's statement that...
Device Shows Promise for Spinal Cord Injury
SATURDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- A experimental device designed to regenerate nerve fibers in people with spinal cord injuries shows promise, says an Indiana...
Book: Roll Models, by Richard Holicky
Why do some spinal cord injury survivors succeed after injury and others spiral into inactivity and depression? Richard Holicky, himself a survivor, profiles 53...
Ethicists Wary of New Stem Cell Proposals
WASHINGTON -- A member of the President's Council on Bioethics and two Columbia University scientists are promoting new research methods that could, they say,...
Helping to heal complications from spinal cord injury
By: News-Medical in Medical Research News
A London scientist has received a major grant to help improve the quality of life for individuals with spinal...
Harvesting Stem Cells from Fat Tissue
Dr. Keith March and his team of researchers at the IU School of Medicine are finding a possible lifesaver, from a most surprising source:...
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...
Lucky dogs help spinal cord injury research
Injured animals received a polymer that lets nerve cells repair selves in Purdue/Texas study.
Madeline and Fred Pernell will never know exactly what happened with...
