Tag: Treatments
Medical Marvel
Doctors can't explain why Pat Rummerfield is able to run marathons and race cars. Even so, there are scores of quadriplegics who long to...
China Offers Unproven Medical Treatments
BEIJING (AP) — They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...
Desperate Americans seek unproven cell treatments in China
BEIJING (AP) - They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...
Spinal Cord Injury and its Legal Remedy
The spinal cord connects the brain to most of our body organs a minor injury inflicted in this vital part of our body may...
Intensive training can fuel repair in brain, spinal cord post injury
Washington, Dec 19 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Alberta have revealed that intensive Rehabilitation training for patients with spinal cord injuries can stimulate...
Urologist Uses Botox to Treat Debilitating Condition
Newswise — Eight years ago, Lynette Kunz suffered a severe spinal cord injury that left her a quadriplegic and sufferer of involuntary bladder contractions....
Stem cells target paralysis
Neuralstem Inc., the tiny Rockville biotech whose human stem cells have helped paralyzed rats walk again, is poised to launch its first trials on...
More travel abroad for stem cell therapy
Procedures banned in U.S. offer disabled hope
Six years after a car accident left Jeni Rummelt paralyzed from the waist down, she is traveling to...
Stem cell breakthrough could avoid ethical concerns
Advocates on both sides of the ethically charged debate over human embryonic stem cells hailed two breakthrough studies unveiled Tuesday that suggested simple human...
New Clinical Trials Could Open ‘Golden Era’ In Spinal Cord Injury And ALS Research
ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2007) — New experimental therapies are being -- or soon may be -- tested in clinical trials that could open the...
