Tag: Treatments
Stem Cell Treatments Might Soon Cure Paralysis
Hans Keirstead, a researcher at University of California, Irvine, is set to begin a small human trial of his embryonic stem cell treatment on...
Multidisciplinary approach can help spinal cord injury treatment
A multidisciplinary approach is most likely to achieve results for treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to a new study.
Newer therapeutic approaches...
Stem Cells For Spinal Cord Injuries
Doctor Experimenting WIth Stem Cells To Help Those Who Are Paralyzed
Nearly 300,000 people in the U.S. are living with a spinal cord injury. Every...
Researcher says cure for paralysis is within reach
Nearly 300,000 people in the U.S. are living with a spinal cord injury. Every year, 12,000 people are told they'll never walk again after...
Cleveland Clinic receives $1 million grant for spinal cord research
The Cleveland Clinic has received a $1 million federal grant to research treatments for spinal cord injuries.
The National Institutes of Health grant will help...
Teaching the paralyzed to walk again
A California scientist was able to get paralyzed rats running again, but can he do the same thing for humans?
HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells...
The NeuroRecovery Network
Theres new hope for patients with spinal cord injuries, thanks to a unique program at Ohio State University Medical Center.
Findings offer potential significance to the recovery of walking after spinal cord injury
Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet have created a genetically modified mouse in which certain neurons can be activated by blue light. Shining...
Kentucky study advances new target for CNS drug development
A breakthrough discovery by scientists at the University of Kentucky could someday lead to new treatments for a variety of diseases of the brain,...
Research network for spinal cord injury beginning clinical trial
Many treatments to limit or reverse the devastating results of spinal cord injury have shown promise in the laboratory yet have never been brought...
