PARIS, FRANCE — October 31, 2005 — Cyberknife image-guided radiosurgery is effective and generally safe for managing spinal metastases, according to data announced on October 31st at the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Cancer Conference (ECCO).
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IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2005 – A new, easily manufactured microfluidic chamber will allow scientists to examine axons in living nerve cells and may lead to a better understanding of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and may be used to screen drugs to overcome spinal cord injuries, according to researchers in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
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An international team of researchers including Harvard scientists published last week a catalog of common human genetic variants—known as the HapMap—that they hope will lead to a better understanding of the causes of genetically-based diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder.
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J.P. Morgan Securities upgraded shares of Biogen Idec (nasdaq: BIIB – news – people ) to “overweight” from “neutral” and said the odds are high the company’s multiple sclerosis drug will return to the market before then end of 2006, based on discussions with neurologists.
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Multiple sclerosis can range from relatively mild to somewhat disabling to devastating. Many researchers believe MS is an
autoimmune disease — meaning the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues.
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A substance made by immune cells may play a key role in the development of multiple sclerosis, research suggests.
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(HealthNewsDigest.com).. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Aerobic exercise is thought to help persons with multiple sclerosis fight fatigue, the most common symptom of the disease. Yet MS also appears to cause the body to heat up more quickly, compromising the ability to exercise.
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(HealthNewsDigest.com).. STANFORD, Calif. – Tryptophan is the source of Thanksgiving legend and grist for a “Seinfeld” episode, but it’s not the chemical that you’d expect to find in Lawrence Steinman’s lab.
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Would you try an untested medical treatment on the off-chance it could let you walk again? Canadian Hanna Czarnecki has traveled all the way to Russia for stem cell injections at a private clinic specializing in spinal cord injuries.
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11/01/05 — A new, easily manufactured microfluidic chamber will allow scientists to examine axons in living nerve cells and may lead to a better understanding of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and may be used to screen drugs to overcome spinal cord injuries, according to researchers in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
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11/04/2005 – Total ReCord, Inc., an early-stage company founded for the specific purpose of developing and commercializing new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, plans to begin clinical trials in early 2006 with a new treatment for patients with spinal cord injuries.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have deciphered a key part of the regulatory code that governs how motor neurons in the spinal cord connect to specific target muscles in the limbs.
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LABORATORY tests have shown that mice with spinal injuries showed improvements after getting injections of adult human neural stem cells.
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Scientists have made stunning progress helping paralyzed rats and mice walk again by injecting them with stem cells. Now researchers at Geron of Menlo Park want to take the next step — in people.
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GENETICALLY engineered stem cells can help rats’ severed spinal cords grow back together, according to a study published today.
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For decades, people with multiple sclerosis were discouraged from exercising to avoid the severe fatigue, vision loss and balance problems often caused by increased body heat.
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Anesthetize the rat. Lay it belly down. Shave a patch along its spine and cut to the bone. Do a laminectomy, that is, take the bone off a short length of the back of the spine, exposing the spinal cord. Suspend a 10-gram rod above the spinal cord, at a height of 12.5 millimeters, or 25, or 50 millimeters. Let it drop.
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DETROIT – (KRT) – Ten minutes after a recent announcement that South Korean scientists had discovered an efficient way to produce stem cells, the world’s largest spinal cord Web site carried the story.
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I have known about this for some time, but because I didn’t want to be guilty of the same hyping that is so often engaged in by some therapeutic cloning proponents, I waited until it was published in a peer reviewed journal.
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Οι διορισμοί διοικητών σε Κέντρα Φροντίδας Ατόμων με Αναπηρία (Α.μ.Ε.Α.) απασχόλησαν σήμερα την ενημέρωση του κυβερνητικού εκπροσώπου, Θ. Ρουσόπουλου.
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