Tag: Spinal Cord

Making Health Care Universally Available

New England States Struggle To Find The Right Formula Juan Martinez had not seen a doctor in the five years since he left Peru when...

Beware the chair

Travis Oldhouser proves Quad rugby isn't for the scared, soft or squeamish PHILADELPHIA - Metal slammed into metal in the middle of the gym. Bodies...

Doctors treat spinal cord injury with stem cell therapy

Doctors at a hospital here have claimed they successfully used stem cell therapy to enable a 25-year-old man, who injured his spinal cord in...

Court approves $13.55M personal injury settlement against Boeing and others over Iraq Apache Longbow...

Beltran v. Chadwick Helmuth, et al., Case No.CV 05-6344-R (JTLx) LOS ANGELES--Panish Shea & Boyle LLP announces today the United States District Court in Los...

Scientists Produce Neurons From Human Skin

ScienceDaily - Scientists from Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in producing neurons in vitro using stem cells extracted from adult human skin....

Zablocki Medical Center to get federal funds for spinal unit

Milwaukee's Zablocki VA Medical Center will receive $32.5 million for a new Spinal Cord Injury Unit (SCI) under the federal Continuing Appropriations Resolution...

Top Spinal Cord Danger For Kids: Crashes

(WebMD) Motor vehicle accidents are the top cause of spinal cord injury in kids, a new study shows. The researchers urge kids to wear...

Firm takes giant step

FOXBORO - Patients with acute spinal cord injuries could regain partial movement and sensation with the first step of what could be a giant...

Cyberkinetics asks to sell device to heal spinal injury

FOXBORO, Mass. – Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Inc. (OTCBB: CYKN) today announced it has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to...

Centocor Successor’s Goal: Stem-Cell Treatments

PHILADELPHIA _ Not in her wildest dreams did Anne Faulkner Schoemaker imagine she would one day run the small Malvern, Pa., company on the...