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Manitoba gives $3M boost to spinal injury treatment
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The Manitoba government will spend $3 million over the next five
years making sure people with spinal cord injuries receive the most
up-to-date services.
Premier Gary Doer and other government officials announced the funding in the provincial legislature Friday.
The money will help ensure medical treatment and social services
incorporate the most recent research and provide more counselling to
people who have experienced spinal cord injuries, they said.
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Manitoba gives $3M boost to spinal injury treatment
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The Manitoba government will spend $3 million over the next five
years making sure people with spinal cord injuries receive the most
up-to-date services.
Premier Gary Doer and other government officials announced the funding in the provincial legislature Friday.
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Injury fund fees shifted to all drivers
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State Senators gave a boost Wednesday to efforts to put Indiana at
the forefront of medical research to treat patients with spinal cord
and brain injuries.
Senators approved a plan to keep the research funding flowing while
also replacing a controversial fee that motorcycle owners had
complained was unfair.
By a vote of 47-0, the Senate approved the plan, House Bill 1318.
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Nano Scaffold Developed To Rebuild Nerve Damage
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A Monash University PhD student has developed a new technique that
could revolutionise stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease and
spinal cord injury.
David Nisbet from Monash University's Department of Materials
Engineering has used existing polymer-based biodegradable fibres, 100
times smaller than a human hair, and re-engineered them to create a
unique 3-D scaffold that could potentially allow stem cells to repair
damaged nerves in the human body more quickly and effectively.
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Father Muller to host seminar on Physiotheraphy
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The Department of Physiotherapy, Father Muller Medical College is
organizing Two day workshop on "Physiotheraphy Management of
people with Spinal Cord Injuries" on 29 of February and 1st of
March at Father Muller Medical College Hospital. Dr. Lisa Harvey senior
Lecturer from the University of Sydney, Australia is the resource
person.
Approximately 15 lakh people in India live with Spinal Cord Injury
and number is seen to be increasing rapidly, targeting males between
the ages of 16-30 years. The diagnosis of spinal cord injury can be
devastating and frightening to trauma victims and their families.
Hence, Rehabilitation plays a significant role in long term care and
community based lifestyle modification.
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Overturning 2006 vote favoring stem cell research is criminal
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Fifteen months ago Missourians passed the Missouri Stem Cell
Amendment to protect research for lifesaving cures that could benefit
125 million Americans.
On Feb. 20 a Missouri judge forgot that election results are the
collective voice of the people and ruled with the minority who oppose
stem cell research.
I speak with 60,000 Missouri citizens and more than 100 respected
patient, faith and medical groups when I say I am very disappointed.
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StemCyte Expands Support of World Renowned Spinal Cord Injury Researcher Through Agreement with Rutgers University
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StemCyte, Rutgers Sign Research, Licensing Agreement
for Novel Human Umbilical Cord Blood Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury
Being Developed by Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D.
StemCyte Inc. and Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, today announced at the Stem Cell Summit that they
have entered into a research and licensing agreement for a spinal cord injury
therapy being developed by Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D., that uses StemCyte's
proprietary human umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells in conjunction with
lithium.
Under the terms of the agreement, StemCyte will provide financial
sponsorship for Dr. Young's work at Rutgers' W.M. Keck Center for
Collaborative Neuroscience and receive exclusive commercialization rights to
the therapy.
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Miracle boy fights back from spinal cord injury
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Wanyae Givens' chances of surviving
the auto accident that nearly severed his spine at the base
of his skull were extremely slim.
But less than two weeks after he nearly died, the
13-year-old Burton Middle School seventh-grader, although
unable to speak, is the one assuring his mother and other
family members he will be OK.
Injured in a car crash Feb. 10, he communicates by blinking
his eyes -- once for "no," twice for
"yes."
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U of L researchers get federal grants for spinal cord research
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Elizabeth Fust was part of a crowd Monday honoring University of
Louisville researchers who won $4.7 million in federal grants. For
Fust, the ceremony was more personal, knowing she might someday benefit
from the search for new spinal cord injury treatments. Fust,
paralyzed from the waist down since a spinal cord stroke two years ago,
said the highly sought grants show cutting-edge research is taking
place in her hometown. "I'm thrilled that I don't have to go
somewhere else in the country ... to see this science come to
fruition," the 40-year-old lawyer said in an interview.
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Mother, daughter duo beat disability
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It's been an addiction since she tried it in New York City one year after the car accident. Melinda
Baker, 39, of Bushnell, Fla., decided she didn't want to sit on the
couch and do nothing, so she took up handcycling. After her first race,
the New York City Marathon, she said she was hooked. "I lost my leg at 35 and suffered a brain injury and an incomplete spinal cord injury," Baker said of the accident.
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February 2008
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