Tag: Spinal Cord
New NIH director says research will change face of U.S. medicine
DETROIT - (KRT) - Dr. Elias Zerhouni has begun his third year as director of the National Institutes of Health, the country's leading medical...
What is the phrenic nerve and where is it situated?
The phrenic nerve goes from the spinal cord to the diaphragm, a large muscle at the bottom of your chest that mediates breathing...
MacLaren’s ‘gift’: Persevering through paralysis
To bathe the inspirational Jim MacLaren entirely in sunlight would be to deny his journey out of the darkness.
If life was indeed fair to...
Want a wild cat? Laws tame probability
St. Augusta is the only city in the six-city metro area that does not have regulations banning or a strict permit process guiding...
Rainey’s presence at MotoGP may be limited
A major driving force behind bringing next weekend's U.S. Grand Prix to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was motorcycle racing legend Wayne Rainey, who makes...
How surgeons rebuilt shattered spine
Matthew Hunt will walk again thanks to the skill of a Norfolk surgical team. Health Correspondent MARK NICHOLLS looks at how they re-built...
Crespi graduate overcomes injury through perseverance, exercise therapy
Mike McNamara's light blue-green eyes fairly glisten as he talks about walking on the USC campus this fall as a college freshman. Only two-and-a-half...
Teens with spinal cord injuries
Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...
Purdue Scientists May Have Found Key to Halting Spinal Cord Damage
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows...
Insulting Their Injuries
When President Bush Says Stem Cell Research ‘devalues Life,' What Is He Telling The Gravely Injured Troops Back From Iraq?
More than 12,000 soldiers...
