Spinal Cord Injuries News

A bill promising more money for programs that help paralyzed veterans is part of a bundle of legislation tied up in partisan bickering in the Senate.

A bill promising more money for programs that help paralyzed veterans is part of a bundle of legislation tied up in partisan bickering in the Senate.

A bill promising more money for programs that help paralyzed veterans is part of a bundle of legislation tied up in partisan bickering in the Senate.

A bill promising more money for programs that help paralyzed veterans is part of a bundle of legislation tied up in partisan bickering in the Senate.

A bill promising more money for programs that help paralyzed veterans is part of a bundle of legislation tied up in partisan bickering in the Senate.

Certain stem cells in the spinal cord, when persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and less scarring tissue after an injury, could lead to a new, non-surgical treatment for debilitating spinal-cord ...

The work is by Konstantinos Meletis, a postdoctoral fellow at the Picower Institute, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

A new control system uses that famously strong and agile muscle, the tongue, to provide computer accessibility and wheelchair control to severely disabled people.

A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following an ...

"Superman or Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on me" - Donovan A new book, "Somewhere in Heaven," about the life of Christopher and Dana Reeve has just come out.

A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following an ...

Four paraplegic athletes are making an incredible 10,000 km journey across Canada on hand cycles this summer to raise money for medical research that may help fund a research breakthrough into spinal cord ...

Scientists Thursday discussed a new tool they call a "road map to the spine," which they said would provide a new level of relief and healing to more than 250,000 Americans -- including more than 25,000 ...

The Allen Institute for Brain Science's project is expected to help advance treatment of nervous-system disorders and spinal-cord injuries, including in war veterans.

Lab assistant Josh Lindgren attaches the final piece to a slide repository containing mouse spinal-cord tissue at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

The article about state Rep. Joe Hune, R-Hamburg Township , contained several inaccuracies regarding stem cell research.

Hands-on therapy combined with laser healing, electrical stimulus, diet and exercise can reverse severe spinal cord injuries, a U.S. researcher says.

PREVENTING PARALYSIS BACKGROUND: According to the Spinal Cord Injury Information Network, there are about 11,000 new cases of spinal cord injuries each year in the United States.

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. , a leading developer of adult stem cell technologies and therapeutics, has completed a preclinical study in collaboration with the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative ...

Approximately 250,000 to 400,000 individuals in the United States have spinal cord injuries.