Tag: Study
Spleen Might Be Source of Damaging Cells at Spinal Cord Injury Site
Newswise — The spleen, an organ that helps the body fight infections, might also be a source of the cells that end up doing...
Study Seeks New Way to Enhance Neuron Repair in Spinal Cord Injury
Newswise — If researchers could determine how to send signals to cells responding to a spinal cord injury, they might be able to stop...
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...
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...
What research brings spinal cord-injured patients closer to a cure?
Millions of people worldwide experience spinal cord injuries. Breakthroughs bring researchers progress, but a complete cure is a long way off
Spinal cord repair focuses...
Devizes spinal injury man rows ‘boat’
Paralysed Devizes man Andrew Farrow is taking part in a ground-breaking medical study which involves him rowing 100 kilometres.
Mr Farrow, 45, is paralysed from...
UTI Risk in Spinal Injury Reduced by New Catheter
The use of a hydrophilic-coated catheter called SpeediCath (Coloplast) delays the onset of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in patients with acute spinal cord injury.
Compared...
Stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury tested on patient
NEW YORK — Geron Corp. has begun testing an embryonic stem-cell treatment on a patient with spinal cord injuries, marking the first time such...
