Tag: Spinal Cord
Quadriplegic donkey walks again Stem cells aid recovery from spinal-cord injury
Eli the donkey’s recovery from incomplete quadriplegia could be the most important breakthrough in traumatic spinal-cord injuries and for the stem-cell treatment that restored...
StemCells plans chronic spinal cord injury trial
(Reuters) - StemCells Inc has filed for Swiss regulatory approval for the first clinical trial of its nerve stem cells in patients with spinal...
Extensive Natural Recovery Seen After Spinal Cord Injury
Newswise — A study led by researchers in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows unexpected...
Patients rave about spinal-cord therapy, but insurance won’t cover it
Families of two paralyzed Bay State teens are calling on insurance companies to step up and fund the life-altering therapy that they say has...
Just the beginning: Embryonic stem cells used on first patient
For the first time, surgeons have injected a spinal cord injury patient with human embryonic stem cells in a federally approved experiment, a biomedical...
Lives changed forever
IT is Spinal Injuries Awareness Week. For Mackay’s Luke Simmons and his family, sending out the message of how a spinal cord injury can...
Spinal Injuries Awareness Week
Meet Martin Hume. Almost three years ago the 21-year-old from Elanora on the Gold Coast suffered major spinal injuries after a wakeboarding accident only...
Monkey Business in Concord
How a Capuchin monkey aids the life of a 27-year-old Concord man and his big family.
Ned Sullivan is taking it one day at a...
We should support stem cell research
I have very strong feelings about the support of stem cell research, and I should – I have a friend whose life could be...
Gering man walks again
After spinal cord injury, Mark Rexus was told by doctors that he wouldn’t
After suffering a spinal cord injury in a work-related accident, doctors told...
