By Patricia Khashayar, MD., Sept. 24, 2007 (Press TV)- Dr Hooshang Saberi is a neurosurgeon in Tehran University of Medical Science. Dr Saberi received his MD from Tehran University, where he also trained in neurosurgery and graduated in 1995.
He also passed a one-year course in anatomy and then received an MPH in epidemiology from Tehran University of Medical Science. He is now the deputy head of the Brain and Spinal Injury Repair Research Center (BASIR)...
By Ivanhoe Newswire, Sept. 18, 2007 (news14.com)- Each year in the United States, about 11,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury. Recent research shows what happens in the first few days following an injury can have a big impact on how well patients recover. Now, there is a new drug that could facilitate a patient's recovery even more...
By Greg Stoda, Sept. 13, 2007 (palmbeachpost.com)- Don't forget about the science behind the miracle.
That's what they're calling whatever it is that's happening up in Buffalo.
It's a miracle, they're saying, because Kevin Everett is maybe supposed to be dead, but for sure isn't supposed to be making voluntary movements with his arms and legs. And maybe it is a miracle, at least the part about having so much go so right after an instant when so much went so wrong...
Sept. 14, 2007 (Science Daily)- UCSF scientists are reporting what they say is a significant improvement in the technique for genetically reprogramming mouse cells to their embryonic state, a process that transforms the cells, in essence, into embryonic stem cells. The finding builds on the strategic breakthrough reported by Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, in 2006, and confirmed in the spring of 2007 both by Yamanaka's team and, in independent studies, by scientists at MIT, Harvard and UCLA...
Sept. 5, 2007 (WQAD)- 300-thousand Americans are in wheelchairs due to spinal cord injuries. Many patients will recover at least some function of fingers, toes, hands and limbs after an injury.
Now, new research shows how they can recover even more. Why patients' recovery could improve with the right timing.
For Bruce Brady, days like these are nothing short of a miracle. Last march, he nearly died when he skied into a cedar fence...
By Wally Kennedy, Sept. 5, 2007, (CNHI News Service)- Rylea Barlett was born blind six years ago.
Her optic nerves did not develop. She was diagnosed when she was a few months old. Doctor after doctor gave her no hope of ever seeing.
On July 4, the girl received the first of five stem-cell transplants. The stem cells were from umbilical cords. The transplants were done in a remote hospital in China...