Spinal Cord Injuries News

Results of the cervical study currently appear online in the journal Stem Cells.

UC Irvine's embryonic stem cell therapy a ' which is the first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for human testing a ' is showing positive results.

Listen to the report Thousands of children at the Shriners hospital are being treated for serious medical conditions like burns and spinal cord injuries.

An opportunity for free medical treatment is being offered for children under the age of 18.

Researchers have developed a new enzyme to break down dense scar tissue that builds up on the spinal cord after central nervous system damage.

The civilian passenger was expecting the ride of a lifetime when he strapped himself into the back seat of a South African Air Force Silver Falcons aircraft.

US researchers have engineered an enzyme that can gobble up scar tissue formed after spinal cord injuries, overcoming a key hurdle to getting injured nerves to reconnect and heal.

We're spending this month talking about various types of disabilities.We'll start today with learning disabilities, then progress to mental illnesses, followed by hearing impairments and deafness, visual impairments and spinal cord injuries.

"The science is so big now," said Dr. Stuart A. Lipton, director of the Burnham Institute's Del cq E. Webb Neuroscience, Aging and Stem Cell Research Center.

James Loris is walking again. A neck injury disrupted the brain's communication with his body, causing paralysis.

BACKGROUND: About 12,000 people suffer spinal cord injuries in the United States very year, according to the Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury Prevention, Care & Cure.

Researchers in San Diego might have discovered a way to do what was previously thought impossible: to train nerves to properly regenerate themselves.

A supporter of social housing, Joanne Naiman sings in the Solidarity Notes Labour Choir, which has performed at events in favour of social housing at Little Mountain.

At Helping Hands, a one-of-a-kind nonprofit school celebrating its 30th anniversary, monkeys train for two to four years before being matched with people nationwide who've experienced spinal-cord injuries or suffer from muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston report that an enzyme known as Mst3b, previously identified in their lab, is essential for regenerating damaged axons in a live animal model, in both the peripheral and central nervous systems.

The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

A Michigan-based researcher has authored a study showing how adult olfactory stem cells can help patients with spinal cord injuries.

Animal research is suggesting new ways to aid recovery after spinal cord injury.

A COMMON antidepressant combined with an intensive treadmill training program helped people with partial spinal cord injuries walk better and faster, US researchers said on Sunday.

The state agency for people with mental retardation and brain and spinal cord injuries has picked the head of its Midlands Center to be the new statewide director nearly eight months after the previous director stepped down and 10 months after a critical audit.