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'Missing Link' Stem Cells may Shorten Path to Therapies

...reatments for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injury, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and numerous other illnesses. One of the great challenges of cell biology is figuring out how stem cells -- found in embryos and in certain adult tissues -- remain unspecialized or "pluripotent,...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...esponse related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans. The authors found that the nucleus accumbens, an area in the brain involved with the anticipation of reward, becomes selectively more active when high risk-high payoff choices were made under conditions of sleep deprivation. Further...

Once-a-year Drug Reduces Fractures from Osteoporosis

...act included a 70 percent reduction in the risk of spinal fractures and a 40 percent reduction in the risk of hip fractures. The effect was sustained over three years. "The reductions in hip and spine fractures were at least as large as those seen with other drugs in this category," said Dennis Black, PhD...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

...ed significant improvement following chiropractic spinal manipulation, according to a report in the Journal...owed significant pain-level improvements following spinal manipulation. No trial group was reported to remain unchanged, and all groups showed positive change...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

... that affects neurons, the cells of the brain and spinal cord that carry information, create thought and pe...f neuron axons in patches throughout the brain and spinal cord. The name multiple sclerosis refers to the multiple scars (or scleroses) on the myelin sheaths....

Death and Disability from Brain Injury Reduced, Emory Researchers Report

...ssibly other neurological injuries such as stroke, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis. "This is the first therapy exists that improves the outcome of brain injury patients," says Dr. Wright. Emory's researchers designed a clinical trial to assess the promise of progesterone for treatment of TBI. Th...

Innovative Education Scheme Sees Fewer Rugby Players Suffering Spinal Injuries

...d be a key reason for a reduction in the number of spinal injuries suffered by rugby players, says a resear...New Zealand study assessed the number and cause of spinal injuries resulting in permanent disability preceding the introduction of RugbySmart and compared the...

30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'

...skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other internal organs remained intact. Th...ull had been knocked completely off the top of the spinal column. The spinal cord carrying all the vital nerves between the brain and the rest of the body ...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

...are caused by incomplete development of the brain, spinal cord and/or their protective coverings. This occurs when the fetus' spine fails to close properly during the early stages of pregnancy. It is generally recommended that women who are trying to become pregnant, or are already pregnant, should take a...

Pulsed Radiofrequency, a Better Option for Treating Chronic Back Pain

...ree major categories; those with herniated discs , spinal stenosis, and complications from failed back surge...c patients and notable improvements for those with spinal stenosis. Since PRF does not involve drugs, it may be repeated multiple times. This study appears in...

Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration

...beyond a CNS related injury. Using optic nerve and spinal cord tissues as in vivo models and dissociated ret...have significant implications for the treatment of spinal cord injuries, and is a vital "next step" in bringing this new technology to clinical use. The sec...

$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease

...l treatment based on injecting stem cells into the spinal cord. The latter approach, which will require the ...he California Stem Cell Initiative for his work on spinal cord injury. "It's hard to imagine a more devastating disease than ALS," says Mr. Taubman, "and we...

New Gene Therapy may Be Helpful in Eliminating Arthritis Pain

... forth between an osteoarthritic jaw joint and the spinal cord, by about one thousand times. They found that the increased opioid receptors on the surfaces of nerve cells led them to become drastically more responsive to the naturally occurring painkiller. For delivering into cells, the researchers us...

Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury can Be Predicted Using MRI

...of full or partial recovery of patients with acute spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to a study publish...people in the United States are living with SCI or spinal dysfunction. An estimated 7,800 new cases of SCI occur each year. Motor vehicle accidents account fo...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

...ntral nervous system moving through nerves in the spinal cord and brain stem up to the brain, which prompts a response, or feeling. Co-author of the current study Allan Basbaum, PhD, also of UCSF, is a pioneer of research into the mechanism of chronic pain within the central nervous system. The Julius te...

IDD Therapy Offers Non-Surgical Back Pain Relief

...iated or bulging discs, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, sciatica and acute or chronic back pain. IDD therapy is deployed via the Accu-SPINA System, and works to reshape the spine using computer technology to apply traction to spots causing lower back pain. The traction provides a negative pres...

Human Stem Cell Therapy Restores Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats

...otor function in paralyzed rats by grafting human spinal stem cells (hSSCs) in them. "We demonstrated tha...grafting human neural stem cells directly into the spinal cord we can achieve a progressive recovery of motor function," said lead researcher Dr. Martin Marsa...

Second CyberKnife(R) System to Meet Growing Demand for Radiosurgery

... predominantly on treating tumors in the brain and spinal cord, while the second system, housed within the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, has focused on pediatric patients and tumors elsewhere in the body. In 2002 Georgetown University Hospital added the CyberK...

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

...nges, the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. It is one of the world's most dreaded infectious diseases. Even with antibiotic treatment, at least 10 percent of patients die, with up to 20 percent left with permanent problems, such as mental retardation, deafness, epilepsy, or necrosis lead...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...ted patients themselves and inject them into their spinal cords carefully to bring about this 'miracle' that...sverse Myelitis (a devastating inflammation of the spinal cord that can cause irreversible paralysis), have also found hope. "I had no feeling from the che...

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