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Will to Walk: Accident victim determined not to spend life in wheelchair Print E-mail
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MARK I. JOHNSON news-journalonline.com: ORANGE CITY -- While some people stroll through life with ease, Joshuah Roy shuffles along inches at a time.  Each step is a battle, but one this Orange City man plans on winning. He's determined not to spend the rest of his life looking at the world from a wheelchair.  (*Includes Video) 
Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:13
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Crackdown urged on 'rogue' stem cell clinics Print E-mail
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Margaret Munro: 12/3/2008 | Treatments , December 2008-    Stem cell clinics promising costly cures for everything from Parkinson's disease to spinal cord injury grossly exaggerate the cells' benefits and gravely underestimate the potential risks, warn researchers.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 February 2009 19:24
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From Stem Cells To Organs: The Bioengineering Challenge Print E-mail
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2008)
— For more than a decade, Peter Zandstra has been working at the University of Toronto to rev up the production of stem cells and their descendants. The raw materials are adult blood stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The end products are blood and heart cells -- lots of them. Enough mouse heart cells that they form beating tissue. (*Includes Video)
Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:06
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Love Bloomed, Despite Paralysis, After She Saved His Life Print E-mail
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By MARY ANNE LYNCH Special to the Courant:  Maryann Soucy and Daniel Spradley went bowling on their first date in 2005. Last week they bowled again - Danny's first outing since August.
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The most severely wounded and disabled US soldier to return home from Iraq Print E-mail
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Rina Jimenez-David-Philippine Daily Inquirer: April 2008:   The most severely wounded and disabled US soldier to return home from Iraq is a Filipino-American by the name of Joseph “Jay” Briseno Jr. Shot in 2003 in the back of the neck at pointblank range that severed his spinal cord.
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Spinal cord research shows promise Print E-mail
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Charlie Fidelman,; Montreal Gazette; November  2007:  MONTREAL - Montreal researchers have identified what may be a pivotal first step toward regenerating injured spinal cords using the body's own stem cells

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:21
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Experimental Russian stem cell treatments for spinal injury credited for a woman's progress Print E-mail
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When Kadi DeHaan took her first steps in December, two years after a car accident forced her into a wheelchair, she did it in typical Kadi style: low-key, nonchalant and with a confident grin.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:26
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