Spinal cord injury patients often succumb to bed sores
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Christopher Reeve dedicated his final years to promoting cutting-edge research in paralysis, including stem cells and experiments aimed at regenerating the spinal cord.
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NEW YORK  - Early tests are raising hopes  that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal  cord.
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NEW YORK  - People with diabetes are prone  to develop nerve damage that causes numbness, tingling or pain  -- which may reduce awareness of skin damage and lead to  serious infections and ulcers. Now, a new drug may improve this  situation, Japanese researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - People with diabetes often  suffer from chronic and sometimes severe pain, and this can  create difficulties for them in the management of their  condition and with self-care activities, researchers have  found.
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Needing a wheelchair isn't always the biggest complaint of people left paralyzed by spinal cord injury &#151; it's also the loss of bladder control. On Monday, Michigan doctors began a unique experiment to see if rerouting patients' nerves just might fix that problem.
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When Christopher Reeve suffered a near-fatal spinal injury after falling from a horse in 1995, things looked bleak. He wasn&#39;t expected to live, and even if he did, doctors agreed that the life he would have
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A hospital apologises to a patient who had to give up his bed in the middle of the night to make way for another emergency.
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Work by British scientists could mean people paralysed by spinal injuries may one day be able to walk again.
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Here's a reality check amid Congress' showdown with President Bush over stem cell research: The potential treatments for diabetes, spinal cord injury and other devastating disorders are years away from being tested in people.
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More than 1000 people who underwent brain or spinal surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in Australia, over the past 18 months have been warned by hospital officials that they may have been exposed to the brain wasting disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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A technique that helps heal spinal injuries in dogs may lead the way to future methods of preventing paralysis in humans who&#39;ve suffered spinal damage.
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Scientists have discovered that a key cancer gene also plays a role in repairing damaged nerve cells. The Cancer Research UK team hope their finding could lead to new treatments for spinal injuries.
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Last summer, Richelle Matli was preparing to ski in national water ski competitions. Instead, she ended up in the hospital with a polio-like paralysis in her left leg after a mosquito bit her.
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THE soaring popularity of laptop computers has led to a dramatic increase in backpain.   Back specialists say they are treating record numbers of patients for problems caused by carrying heavy laptops or by poor posture while using keyboards.
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Imagine your body pocked by erupting sores. The sensation of little bugs crawling all over you. And worst of all, mysterious red and blue fibers sprouting from your skin.
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Hospitals across the Midlands are trying to trace hundreds of patients who may have been exposed to brain-wasting vCJD through blood plasma products.
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Five years ago, Ruby Burns of Laurel underwent surgery to replace two disks in her neck. But the replacements apparently weren't all that entered her body that day. Burns, then 41 and a former hospital chaplain, developed a staphylococcus infection that formed an abscess on her spine at the site ...