Tag: Treatments

Still playing to win

Eyes, not hands, now guide the work of wheelchair-bound vascular surgeon in Greenville GREENVILLE -- Glancing at a U.S. Open doubles tennis match on a...

Study Finds Amendment 2 Will Benefit Hundreds of Thousands of Patients, Reduce Health Care...

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly released study co-authored by a Missouri economist and a public policy expert found that voter approval...

Spinal device easing agony

'Like a buzzing': 250 Utahns have taken advantage of the implanted stimulator Joshua Taylor spent half of his senior year in high school restricted to...

CU enters stem cell big league

AURORA - The University of Colorado has scored a $6 million gift from Denver's Gates family and gained a top Texas researcher, two major...

Spinal cord bridge bypasses injury to restore mobility

Cleveland -- The body's spinal cord is like a super highway of nerves. When an injury occurs, the body's policing defenses put up a...

$5 million in new state stem cell research funding

Gov. Blagojevich announces recipients of $5 million in new state stem cell research funding Funds awarded to seven state university stem cell research projects CHICAGO –...

Anti-Ban Billionaires

Billionaire cash has kept embryonic stem-cell research alive--just barely. Anti-abortion crusaders see research on embryonic stem cells as something akin to murder. Eli Broad sees...

Green light for stem cell program

SAN FRANCISCO — California's stem cell agency last week approved a four-year, $151 million grant program focused solely on human embryonic stem cell research...

Little by little, stem-cell supporters gaining ground

When Bernie Siegel started pushing for stem-cell research three years ago, the tide was moving decidedly in the other direction. Laws were being proposed to...

Mount Sinai

The Mount Sinai Spinal Cord Injury Model System (MS-SCI-MS) provides comprehensive care to meet the diverse needs of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI)....