Study on dogs yields hope in human paralysis treatment
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Researchers have successfully tested injections of a liquid polymer to heal spinal injuries in dogs in an experiment that also offers hope for preventing human paralysis.
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The quest to understand dog genetics will help scientists track down the causes of disease in both canines and people.
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An injection of a man made polymer liquid has been used by animal researchers to prevent spinal cord damage in dogs. The treatment may offer hope for preventing paralysis in humans who suffer serious spinal cord injuries.
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If a dog is man's best friend, a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran showed the feeling is mutual by saving his drowning pet with mouth-to-snout resuscitation and CPR.
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âWe show, for the first time, we can deliver these potentially high-quality therapeutics to an animal.â Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
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A treatment for muscular dystrophy may be within view after US scientists reported Sunday they used stem cell transplants to improve muscle function in mice afflicted with the disease.
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They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments Â and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China.
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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UNDATED A small, preliminary study shows an experimental drug can offer relief to victims of the poorly understood autoimmune illness Chron&#39;s (krohnz) disease.
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A new technique is helping re-animate the faces of patients with severe long-term facial paralysis, doctors say.
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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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Dogs with paralysed hind legs regained the ability to walk after getting a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze that helped repair nerve cells in their damaged spinal cords, scientists reported.
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LONDON -- It has long been suspected that man's best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now, the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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Scientists have identified a gene which controls the body&#39;s ability to repair the nerve damage inflicted by diseases like multiple sclerosis.
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The quest to understand dog genetics will help scientists track down the causes of disease in canines and people.
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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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An experimental treatment for Parkinson's disease seemed to improve symptoms &#151; dramatically so, for one 59-year-old man &#151; without causing side effects in an early study of a dozen patients.