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How surgeons rebuilt shattered spine

Matthew Hunt will walk again thanks to the skill of a Norfolk surgical team. Health Correspondent MARK NICHOLLS looks at how they re-built...

Poll: 74% oppose state Medicaid cuts

Governors have their work cut out for them in convincing the public to accept fundamental changes in Medicaid that could trim benefits and raise...

Teens with spinal cord injuries

Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...

IS IT WORTH BANKING YOUR BABY’S CORD BLOOD?

When Lisa Recker was pregnant, she was inundated with ads touting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make the "best investment" in the future health of...

Purdue Scientists May Have Found Key to Halting Spinal Cord Damage

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows...

A father apart with lots of heart

For Brian Vail of Mount Gilead, the answer has been to live for 10 years with the debilitating Lou Gehrig's Disease, or amyotrophic lateral...

Help N.Y. compete

And New York and the Rochester region to this point aren't in the game. The state Legislature should change that before it adjourns. At stake...

Relentless Pursuit: Buoniconti Keeps Promise, Gives Hope

Nick Buoniconti's Champagne glass was still in the air when the phone rang. Lounging on a New Jersey terrace beneath a bright October sun in...

Clinical Studies Abroad: What Can We Learn?

Recently there has been news from various countries of the effects of transplanting olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) into people with spinal cord injury (SCI)....

Stem cell research activist, Dr. Wise Young, tackles current issues

DETROIT - (KRT) - Ten minutes after a recent announcement that South Korean scientists had discovered an efficient way to produce stem cells, the...