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Clinical Research Opportunities
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Miami Project scientists' Mark S. Nash, Ph.D. and Edelle Field-Fote, Ph.D., PT were recently awarded funding as part of a multi-center grant from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, D.C. Dr. Nash will be conducting a three-year study to more clearly identify predictors of risk for diseases of the heart and circulation in people with SCI. As a result of the study, the investigators also hope to develop a systematic assessment for lifestyle and medical interventions to reduce this risk.
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Neurogenesis: Forming Nerves
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Recent research suggests that, throughout life, the adult brain retains a limited capacity to make new neurons. This new knowledge has led to a surge of interest in adult stem cells found in the brain. Two specific areas in the brain are known to generate new neurons. By studying stem cells in these areas, investigators like The Miami Project's Daniel Liebl, Ph.D. hope to identify how neurogenesis - the formation of new neurons - is regulated in the adult nervous system.
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Reeve encourages audience to push for social change
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 Activist and former actor Christopher Reeve speaks to a packed audience at Irvine Auditorium last night. He advised students to follow their morals.
Bringing audience members to tears last night, acclaimed actor and activist Christopher Reeve urged a sold-out Irvine Auditorium to strive to change the world.
"I know you have had a very long list of distinguished speakers, but I'm glad you made an exception in my case," Reeve said.
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Concert to benefit spinal cord injury victims
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While shooting footage last fall for the film adaptation of "Friday Night Lights," the quintessential novel about Texas high school football and the young men who play it, director Peter Berg witnessed something he would never forget.
Filming a game between West Lake High School and San Antonio Madison in Austin, Berg, along with a stadium full of fans, watched as David Edwards collapsed on the turf following a hard hit. The Madison player had suffered the most catastrophic of football injuries - a spinal cord impairment that has left him a quadriplegic.
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Most pros risk injury, not death
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"You've heard the saying, 'I'm going to break my neck trying?' Well, that's pretty much me."
Hard hits, 99 mph fastballs and errant pucks don't kill players in the four major pro leagues, but they can change players' lives. Just ask Reggie Brown.
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Motorist rescued after 36 hours on freeway
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FRIENDSWOOD, Texas - A motorist injured after a crash lay paralyzed in the middle of the Gulf Freeway with a broken neck for 36 hours before he was rescued.
Ed Theisen's plight was blocked from the view of passing cars by some traffic barricades.
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Stem-cell research is exciting, but not to investors
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SEATTLE - (KRT) - Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans have damaged brain cells from Alzheimer's, and a million people each year suffer tissue damage from heart attacks.
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New Acute Injury Unit At Groote Schuur
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The transfer of the acute spinal cord injury unit from Conradie Hospital to Groote Schuur promises better service delivery to both patients and staff.
Western Cape Health MEC Meyer said this yesterday, during the official opening of the new unit at Groote Schuur Hospital.
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Their lives go on
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When 40-year-old Mindy Idaspe learned she would never walk again due to a spinal cord injury in 2002, she was heartbroken. A nurse and mother, she had always focused on caring for others - how could she learn to be dependent on other people?
The answer came through the Spinal Cord Group of Collier County, a support group Idaspe formed with two other disabled friends. What they found is that together, they can not only live normal lives, but find new ways to enjoy the things they thought they left behind.
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A man of motion
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The first time he opened his eyes after the crash, he recalls white drapes pulled along each side of his bed, a nurses station across the hall and tubes coming out of every part of his broken body.
It was only weeks later, after he was transferred from the critical care unit to a regular hospital bed, his mom broke the news to her paralysed 21-year-old son that he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
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