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Spinal Cord Injury Patient Treated With Non-Matched Donor Adult Stem Cells Is Walking Again by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Fri 10 Dec 2010 6:18pm MediStem is located in San Diego and this was the first patient to be injected with stem cells from a donor as he had severe spinal cord damage a result of an accident. This is totally amazing with the results as he was no longer walking and from the time of the injection in November of 2008 until July of 2009, he’s no again walking and regai ... Read on »

Spinal Cord Injury Patient Give an Account of His Improvement and Returned Capabilities After Stem Cell Treatment in 2008 (Vide by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Thu 05 May 2011 3:52pm This is a raw video of the patient talking about his progress with receiving stem cell treatments and he chronicles it each step and year. Yesterday if you saw the news the CIRM announced funding for the Geron clinical trials, which are just that, stem cell spinal treatments. In California a few years ago, stem cell funds were approved by vot ... Read on »

FDA Approves Medical Device From AMES Technologies for Muscle and Joint Rehab After A Stroke or Relatibve Spinal Cord Injuries by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Fri 31 May 2013 12:11pm Thus far the website does not have a lot of information posted being the approval just took place with the FDA. It even has audit tables to give insurers and others progress reports on patient progress. I guess this way with the reports there should be no question on the progress made by each patient using the device after having suffered a s ... Read on »

Scientists Restore Walking In Mice After Spinal Cord Injury by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:17pm I wasn't too worried about my computer giving out on me right at the start of the new year, other than the wince that comes along with having bad luck the first week (you know that myth saying your first few days of 2008 reflect how your year will go? Let's really hope myth is the key word there...), since typically not much happens in the news ... Read on »

Spinal Cord Injury Incontinence by Meredy Registered Nurse

Posted Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:25pm We have a Web site http://groupsmsn.com/SpinalCordInjuryIncontinence, and we have provided a page for people with muscular dystrophy. On that page we have provided a link to your blog. My nick is Doc, and I am a retired EM engineer and a disabled fireman- EMT-paramedic. I am trying to cope with a debilitating set of circumstances brought o ... Read on »

Geron Gets FDA Approval To Resume Stem-Cell Study - Spinal Cord Injuries - Go UC Irvine! by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Fri 30 Jul 2010 7:04pm The video speaks of where stem cell research is currently in the US and revisits the big breakthrough from a couple years ago when skin cells could be used instead of the actual embryo for research. That discovery rapidly set things on fire for research in so many areas. Mentioned in the video is the project at UCI and you can hear a pa ... Read on »

Elderly Patients At Risk For Spinal Cord Injury During Dental Procedures by Brendan Kevenides Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Oct 2009 10:02pm I have been retained to represent a 79 year old woman in a dental malpractice case. The woman visited her Chicago area periodontist to have a single dental implant placed. During the procedure it was necessary for the dentist to extract the tooth that would be replaced with the implant. She explained to me that during the extraction her head and ... Read on »

Nine Years with a Spinal Cord Injury Today by Greg T. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:39pm Nine years ago today I had my spinal cord injury, it's a date on the calendar that continues to bother me. It's a day of reflection. The day I was injured I decided to take it day by day. I've talked before about finding one thing a day to be grateful for. I think that beyond anything else that has led me to where I am today. Today I am ... Read on »

Positive Thinking Day to help find a cure for spinal cord injury by Kirsten Harrell, Psy.D Doctor of Psychology

Posted Sun 14 Sep 2008 3:50pm 50% of purchases at ipopin.com between September 8 - 15, 2007 will go to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation! The Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information, and advocacy. If you spend at least $ ... Read on »

News Blockade: MSM Ignores Adult Stem Cell Human Trial Success in Treatment of Acute Spinal Cord Injuries by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted Sat 14 Mar 2009 4:21pm Geron recently obtained FDA permission to try using a potentially risky embryonic stem cell derived treatment developed to treat acute spinal cord injury in a human trial to test the safety of the product. But it turns out that a patient's own adult stem cells appear to already provide the same kind of benefit, and without the risk of tumors found ... Read on »