Tag: Spinal Cord

$5.7 million to paralyzed cyclist

A $5.7 million court award for a cycling accident, ruled to be 75 per cent due to Langley Township negligence, is being reviewed by...

Get on track and raise money for Spinal Research!

CHARITY Spinal Research have organised atrackday at Croft to raise awareness for the biker community, who as we all know, can benefit from research...

We are praying for a miracle

MUMBAI: A year after the bomb blast in a local train at Khar Road severely incapacitated 22-year-old Chirag Chauhan, life is still a big...

4th Annual Night By The Ocean Gala to Take Place at the Beverly Hills...

On Sunday, July 22, 2007, Life Rolls On (LRO) Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people affected...

Disabled laud efforts to make intimacy easier

Alan Tholkes expected good-natured ribbing when he shared his new-product idea with colleagues at HealthPostures, the ergonomic-furniture company in Glencoe, Minn., that he co-founded...

First steps on a long road

One evening this March, at a military hospital in northeast China, Paraplegic Jason McCue moved his legs. It happened when the 31-year-old Calgarian was watching...

Spinal injury ‘repairs’ on trial

Trials are to begin on the first patients as part of cell research which could help thousands of people paralysed in accidents. Welsh charity Trust...

Walk proceeds buys equipment

More than $4,000 has been raised for spinal cord injury research and quality of life projects through the different events that comprised the fifth...

Clinical Trial Suggests Bone Marrow Stem Cells Are Useful For Spinal Cord Injury

PrimeCellâ„¢ Therapeutics LLC recently announced that it provided research support and pre-clinical studies for a clinical trial to assess the safety, feasibility and efficacy...

Blood clotting protein may inhibit spinal cord regeneration

Fibrinogen, a blood-clotting protein found in circulating blood, has been found to inhibit the growth of Central Nervous System neuronal cells, a process that...