Spinal cord injury News

WEDNESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- A study in rats is raising new hope for a treatment that might help spare people with injured spines from the paralysis that often follows such trauma. Researchers found that by immediately giving injured ra...

FRIDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Deleting a gene that suppresses natural growth factors enables regeneration of injured nerve fibers (axons) in mice, a new study shows. The finding may lead to new treatments for people with brain and spinal cor...

THURSDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified a potential target for drug treatment of spinal cord injuries. Cells in spinal cord scar tissue release molecules that prevent severed nerve fibers from passing the damaged area and...

SUNDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- A three-pronged approach to treating spinal cord injuries allowed paralyzed rats to walk without receiving signals from the brain, scientists report. Spinal cord injuries result in paralysis when the nerve fibe...

MONDAY, Aug. 3 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that is a major advance in spinal cord injury research, U.S. scientists report that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets where they can re-form connections after spinal cord inju...

TUESDAY, April 21 (HealthDay News) -- One in 50 Americans, or 5.6 million people, live with some form of paralysis, a new survey shows. There have been no solid estimates until now, said Joseph Canose, vice president of quality of life for the Chr...

MONDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Using genetically engineered cells and a virus as a delivery method, researchers were able to regenerate a type of nerve fiber in rat brains that controls movement. This isn't the first time researchers have sho...