Tag: Treatments
Doctors on the Scene Acted Quickly to Treat Everett With Cold Therapy
BUFFALO, Sept. 15 — In the moments after a serious spinal cord injury paralyzed Kevin Everett of the Buffalo Bills below the shoulders, doctors...
Experimental therapy may ease spinal cord injury
An experimental body cooling treatment used on an injured National Football League player offers promise for preventing paralysis in people who sustain severe spinal...
Stem-cell therapy: Cure or hoax in China?
'Some get miracles'; others are skeptical
The website for Beike Biotechnology bursts with stories that can only be categorized as medical miracles: a Paraplegic can...
Stem Cell Scientist Sets Record Straight on Spinal Cord Injury Trials
There's been lots of confusion and some mischaracterizations about when the first embryonic stem cell clinical trial might take place and what it might...
Christopher Reeve Foundation Spinal Cord Injury Research Network Receives DoD Grant
Newswise — A multi-million dollar grant from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) will allow six hospital centers, including the Methodist Neurological Institute...
The gift that keeps on giving
Matthew Nagle only lived 27 years, but his example of encouraging disabled people to strive for a better way of life by participating in...
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...
New mouse stem cell is just like ours
The discovery of a mouse embryonic stem cell that is a near-perfect match to human cells will speed research in regenerative medicine and treatments...
Healing friend
Therapy dog Colonel spreads joy as he visits hospitals, schools, centers
Colonel can bark in five languages - but that's not the best part.
The 8-year-old...
‘Missing link’ stem cells may shorten path to therapies
The discovery of a mouse embryonic stem cell startlingly similar to its human counterpart will likely speed progress toward the Regeneration of healthy cells...
