Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: Drugs and Medication

Breathing Device For Spinal Injuries

Surviving a spinal cord injury is something to be thankful for, but it's still devastating. For one New Yorker, an accident changed his life forever...

The Whole World Is Watching

Hope—and anxiety—run high as the first clinical trial of embryonic-stem-cell therapy begins this summer. Six weeks before the hoopla over President Barack Obama's executive order...

Therapeutic Hypothermia Is Promising Strategy To Minimize Tissue Damage

Recognition of the benefits of cooling strategies to protect the brain and spinal cord after traumatic injury has led to a wealth of cutting...

Robot helps spinal cord patients remember how to walk

AT CARDINAL HILL, ROBOT AIDS THERAPY Scott Crawford wants to walk again. In September, a pile of wooden pallets fell on Crawford. The accident left...

South Florida doctors look to speed up stem cell research

As President Barack Obama eased restrictions on embryonic stem cell research Monday, South Florida scientists said they will pursue the controversial research in their...

Obama Is Leaving Some Stem Cell Issues to Congress

WASHINGTON — While lifting the Bush administration’s restrictions on federally financed human embryonic stem cell research, President Obama intends to avoid the thorniest question...

California scientists celebrate Obama’s lifting of restrictions on stem cell research

KPCC's Nick Roman says people and institutions across California welcomed President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal funding for stem cell research. Nick Roman:...

Georgia colleges embrace Obama’s stem cell decision

For eight years, scientists have taken extreme measures to continue researching how embryonic stem cells could treat illness and injury. With limits on federal money...

Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009

In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first human trials of a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. The...

Stem Cell Breakthrough By Mount Sinai Hospital Researcher

In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells...