Spinal cord injury is the injury to the spinal cord, a very serious form of trauma with enduring effects on the patients daily life. The spinal cord is approximately 18 inches long and extends from brain base at the neck and ending just above the buttocks.

What Is Quadriplegia? Paralysis can be either partial, periodic, complete, or incomplete. Paralysis of both the arms and legs has been traditionally been called quadriplegia.

Treatment The Stem Cell treatment performed at our clinics is a painless medical procedure where Stem Cells (cellular building blocks) are usually administered intravenously and subcutaneously (under the skin).

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Americord, the fastest growing cord blood bank in the country, and a leader in the advancement of umbilical cord blood, cord tissue, and placental tissue banking, has expanded customer options to now offer placental tissue banking as a stand-alone service. As one of the only companies to offer placental tissue banking, Americord believes in the importance of offering new mothers an opportunity to preserve their stem cells for potential future use. We are therefore launching placental tissue banking as a stand-alone service, without the need to bank umbilical cord blood.

Human neural stem cells are derived via fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) from donated fetal brain tissue. Credit: Hal X. Nguyen and Aileen J

CINCINNATI -- Ryan Custer tearfully thanked the community for their support at his prayer service Sunday. I cant thank you guys enough, he said in front of a standing ovation at Elder High Schools Fieldhouse.

GABRIELLA FIORINO We trust our doctors with our lives. However, what is the reaction when some medical professionals allow unsanitary measures and diseases to break out into the population?

01 Sep 2017 A paper in the September 1 Nature claims a cadre of rogue microglia are all it takes to orchestrate neurodegeneration. Researchers led by Frederic Geissmann and Omar Abdel-Wahab of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and Marco Prinz of the University of Freiburg in Germany, induced a somatic mutation in about 10 percent of microglia that switched on ERK kinase signaling

You might feel a bit down if you watch the news. Who wouldnt? Angry people might be grabbing headlines and making you wonder about the future, but the antidote is all around you

A brain cell replacement therapy reduced Parkinsons disease symptoms in monkeys, Japanese researchers report in a study released Wednesday. The positive result boosts prospects to test the therapy in people. The goal is to implant neurons derived from stem cells into the brains of Parkinsons patients, a project pursued by scientists in San Diego, New York, Britain and Sweden as well as in Japan

Spinal injuries are oftenpermanent, but new research suggests such injuries may be healed, at least in part.Researchers were able to stimulate limb function in paralyzed mice by implanting human stem cells into theirspinal cords.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego and at the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center have shown that human neural stem cells (NSCs) grafted onto the spinal cord injuries of mice produced a functional recovery after one year. The team has shown that the NSCs continue to grow slowly and steadily even18 months after implantation

The FDAs commissioner Scott Gottlieb has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous actors attempting to treat patients with potentially dangerous or unproven stem cell therapies. According to Gottlieb, these companies are able to promote, unproven, illegal and expensive treatments that offer little hope and could pose health risks to vulnerable patients, based on the clinical promise of regenerative medicine

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Another Outbreak of Salmonella Traced to Pet Turtles Thirty-seven people across 13 states have contracted salmonella infection from contact with pet turtles, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a crackdown on stem-cell clinics marketing and selling unapproved and potentially harmful therapies for cancer and other diseases. The agency took action against two large clinics in Florida and California, which have started selling treatments that the agency says use stem cells but have not been approved as safe and effective by the FDA.

A human stem cell replicating itself.

Jerika Bolen, the 14-year-old who made headlines when she decided to stop treatment for Type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy, has died.

Jack Massey is ready to go back to school.