Nigeria: The Healing Power of Roots, Herbs

MR Charles Jaiyeola had lost hope again when he sustained serious cord and leg injury in an auto accident.

Even after spending months at Shagamu General hospital and another eight months at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, Lagos.

Mr. Jaiyeola was as good as a bad case that defied all medical options, but today after spending six months under the care of Chief Isaac Bayo Olobatuyi, medical director, Ejioba Bone Clinic, the once bedridden Jaiyeola has regained the services of his legs as well as cured of his spinal cord problems. Continue Reading »

Some Right-to-Life groups support stem-cell bill

Conservative and right-to-life groups contacted Wednesday embrace the advancement of a bill in the state House to establish a public bank of umbilical cord blood that could be used for transplants and stem-cell research.

“We do support stem-cell research but not embryonic (stem-cell research) where a life has to be destroyed to get the stem cells,” said Rose Mimms, executive director of the Arkansas Right-to-Life organization.

The national controversy over stem cells largely has focused on embryonic stem cells, which can be derived from unborn embryos. Continue Reading »

Unite 2 Fight Paralysis

Ourmission is to unite and empower those physically disabled by paralysis,their families, and their supporters.  We commit our skills toprovide resources, tools, information and activities to strengthen thecure movement, with a particular focus on helping those physicallydisabled by paralysis to advocate for themselves.  We furtherpledge to support the efforts of other organizations committed to thesame objectives. We are committed to a “fight to thefinish” that will bring full recovery to victims of paralysis.

Are you a Woman with a SCI who has been injured for at least one year?

This is a request for women with SCI (aged 18 or older) who are both employed and unemployed to participate in an on-line research project.

Need: Research on the return to work experiences of women with SCI is close to nonexistent. Increasing the understanding of what it is like to be a woman with a SCI who has either returned to work, attempted to return to work, or would like to return to work will offer very valuable insight into understanding the most effective approaches to helping women return to work. Continue Reading »

Working 2 Walk Symposium & Rally

It’s that time again. Make plans to join us for the 2nd Annual Working 2 Walk Symposium & Rally in Washington, DC. In addition to hearing the latest updates on scientific progress from leading researchers (including Drs. John McDonald, Stephen Davies, W. Dalton Dietrich, and Wise Young), this year’s Symposium will focus on the need for a clinical trial structure. This is your opportunity to learn about the status of a North American Clinical Trial Network. Find out what you as an advocate can do to advance this critical component in achieving a cure, and how you can assist our researchers who are working so hard to move science from the lab to human applications. Continue Reading »

Meredith Gets Around

A column about restaurant happenings and food musings, home and away.

Just as the Great White Way darkens to signify a Broadway loss, so it seemed the lights of local eateries dimmed two and a half years ago when a mountain bike accident left beloved restaurateur Meredith Nicolls paralyzed below the shoulders. Practically no other chef mentored as many of the area’s top culinarians. Now those lights can brighten with news that motion returned to the index finger of his left hand. Continue Reading »

Scientists plan China, HK, Taiwan stem cell trial

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 fibers.

Stem cells from umbilical cord blood will be injected into the spinal cords of the participants, who will also be given lithium to help stimulate cell Regeneration, said Wise Young, a leading neuroscientist and spinal cord injury researcher. Continue Reading »

India’s 1st public stem cell bank soon

Every year around 25 million children are born in India, almost one every second! Result: a bursting population. But this is not a story of India’s teeming millions or what should be done to control this boom.

It is a story of India first public stem cell bank. And what is a stem cell? And what has it got to do with newborn babies? Read on to find out. Continue Reading »

Paralyzed man donates $1M

Tim Reynolds is not just any ordinary guy. He has it all — a wife and three children, a house overlooking the Navesink River, and he works for a trading firm.

But Reynolds also suffers from a spinal cord injury. Six years ago, he was in an automobile accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. His life was spared on Dec. 14, 2000, after emergency surgery at the University Hospital in Newark, but his crushed spinal cord was beyond repair.

Reynolds spent three months in the hospital, he said: a few weeks at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the remaining months at Kessler Hospital in West Orange. His doctor at Kessler was Barbara Benevento. Continue Reading »

Christopher Reeve Foundation Unveils New Name Honoring Dana Reeve’s Legacy On First Anniversary of Her Passing

Organization to be known as Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation reflecting partnership, courage and compassion of the Reeves

SHORT HILLS, N.J., March 1 /PRNewswire/ — Dana Reeve’s courage, strength and compassion brought comfort and hope to millions of people living with paralysis and their families and caregivers. To commemorate Dana Reeve’s tireless work on behalf of the paralysis community on the first anniversary of her passing, the Board of Directors of the Christopher Reeve Foundation announced today that the organization has been renamed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (CDRF). Continue Reading »