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Arena player dies from game injury

An Arena Football League lineman died yesterday after suffering an apparent spinal cord injury in a game against the Dragons in Los Angeles. Al Lucas,...

UCI Skips HQ for Stem Cell Work

By Rick Reiff - Orange County Business Journal Staff Ten areas are bidding to become the headquarters for the California Institute of Regenera-tive Medicine, the...

Dole Discloses Emergency That Nearly Took His Life

Former Senator Bob Dole, whose life was shaped by a devastating war injury, suffered a medical emergency earlier this year that doctors told him...

Life on the Hill

On February 16, the Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies convened a public hearing to examine several bills related to stem cell research....

Expression profile of EphA receptors after spinal cord injury in adult rats

Researchers are looking at molecular activities that occur early in development that "come back" after trauma, such as a spinal cord Lesion. They observed such...

Playing God? Benefits and challenges abound in human embryo research

While most people believe that reproductive human cloning equates to unethical practice, advocates of therapeutic cloning and stem cell therapy have been left dismayed...

New Avenues of Research Open for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries

Concerted National Effort Needed To Develop New Therapies Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Recent discoveries about the Central Nervous System's capacity for Regeneration and repair...

AANS Applauds Institute of Medicine’s Spinal Cord Injury Report

Newswise — According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), as many as 250,000 people are living in the United States with spinal...

Maryland must explore stem cells’ promise

OVERWHELMING scientific opinion supports embryonic stem cell research, and many believe it has the potential to revolutionize medicine. The American Medical Association and the National...

Acorda Therapeutics Launches ZANAFLEX CAPSULES for the Management of Spasticity in People with MS...

HAWTHORNE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)Acorda Therapeutics(R) announced today that it has launched ZANAFLEX(R) CAPSULES (tizanidine hydrochloride), a new, capsule formulation of tizanidine, a leading treatment for...