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Stem Cell Hope For Injured Spine
- 04/29/2007
Gas station worker Ravindra Ahire was completely paralysed and had lost sensation in his lower limbs after his bike skidded on Malegaon's dusty streets. He found hope in Mumbai's Sion Hospital a fortnight later.
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Nanotechnology Offers Hope For Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
- 04/26/2007
Imagine a world where damaged organs in your body - kidneys, liver, heart - can be stimulated to heal themselves.
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Drug Shows Promise in Spinal Cord Injury Treatment
- 04/17/2007
A drug called Cethrin shows promise in treating people with spinal cord injury (SCI), according to a study by American and Canadian researchers.
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Rehab Robot Does Heavy Lifting
- 04/05/2007
The Lokomat, a $300,000, robotic gait device, uses cutting-edge Swiss technology for body weight-supported treadmill training (BWSTT), a promising treatment strategy following neurological injury.
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Hardware Connects Brain To Computer And Thought To Function, Giving Hope To Quadriplegics
- 04/03/2007
The stroke patient cannot move or talk. Yet she directs a wheelchair to go forward, backward and to turn around. How? Simply by thinking it.
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Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Awards Over One Million Dollars in Research Grants
- 03/23/2007
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (CDRF) announced today that it has awarded $1,522,500 to support fourteen cutting-edge research projects through its Individual Research Grants program.
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Lipitor (atorvastatin) As A Treatment For Spinal Cord Injuries Following Trauma
- 03/21/2007
In a multidisciplinary investigation led by Inderjit Singh, Ph.D, a breakthrough has been made in relation to the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI).
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New Products Help Paraplegics Have Sex
- 03/13/2007
Nearly 15 years ago David Bucks was extreme skiing in California when an avalanche knocked him down and threw him from a 200-foot cliff onto a rock face. Three of his vertebrae broke into 42 pieces. At 33, Bucks was completely paralyzed below the chest. Once he realized he'd live, he feared that he'd never be able to have sex again.
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Scientists Plan Stem Cell Trial
- 03/07/2007
Scientists are preparing for a large clinical trial in 2008 which aims to use stem cells to help 400 patients with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan grow new cells and nerve fibres.
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New Spinal Cord Treatment Available
- 03/07/2007
It's been one year since Dana Reeve passed away. Dana and her husband, the late actor Christopher Reeve, became crusaders for spinal cord injury research after he became paralyzed.
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JHM Alliance Awards Foster Technology Development
- 03/05/2007
The JHM Alliance for Science and Technology Development, a group of high-level business executives that assists School of Medicine faculty in commercializing their inventions, has awarded $50,000 each to Ronald L. Schnaar, professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences and of neuroscience, and Anirban Maitra, associate professor of pathology, oncology and genetic medicine.
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Doctors Treat Spinal Cord Injury With Stem Cell Therapy
- 02/25/2007
Doctors at a hospital here have claimed they successfully used stem cell therapy to enable a 25-year-old man, who injured his spinal cord in a fall in July last year, to walk normally again.
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Human Stem Cell Transplants Mature Into Neurons, Make Contacts in Rat Spinal Cord
- 02/13/2007
Human nerve stem cells transplanted into rats’ damaged spinal cords have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats’ own spinal cord cells in a Johns Hopkins laboratory, overturning the long-held notion that spinal cords won’t allow nerve repair.
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Dalhousie Scientist Offers Hope For Spinal Cord Repair
- 02/13/2007
A Dalhousie University scientist and his colleagues have discovered a "volume knob" for the brain when it tells the body to walk.
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New Approach To Nerve Repair With Novel Silk-Based Products
- 02/12/2007
A new company has been established to develop novel silk-based products that have the potential to provide a new generation of nerve repair materials and treatments.
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Robotic Exoskeleton Could Rehabilitate Disabled
- 02/09/2007
A robotic exoskeleton users could control with their own nervous systems might help the disabled regain limb function, U.S. researchers said Thursday.
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Iran Announces Innovative New Technique To Repair Spinal Cord Injuries
- 02/05/2007
The Islamic Republic officially announced that Iranian scientists have developed a new technique for treating patients with spinal cord injuries.
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New Hope For Spinal Cord Injury Patients
- 02/02/2007
Tiny nerves taken from the rib cage, fortified with a powerful growth inducer and transplanted in the spinal cord significantly reversed paralysis in rats with spinal cord injuries.
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