As they do in many areas of medicine, stem cells hold great potential in treating injured spinal cords, but getting them where they need to go is a delicate undertaking. Scientists at the University ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord becomes damaged, a number of debilitating conditions can result that limit mobility, inhibit ...

Stem cell injections are a minimally invasive therapy and may offer long-term pain management for back pain. All cells have a particular function within the human body. They provide structure, take in ...

Danish researchers trying to find a way to help men badly injured by prostate cancer surgery say they got mixed results with an experimental new approach: injecting them with stem cells. Only a few of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oklahoma regulators are imposing new restrictions on energy companies injecting wastewater underground as they produce oil and natural gas, in the latest effort to stem a sharp ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A stem-cell repair technique that has already been used to fix hundreds of injured race horses is to be tested for the first time in people with damaged Achilles tendons. Privately ...

Has the day come when a shot of young stem cells could help an aging senior citizen regain energy, appear younger and wipe away the years? The question is a fair one, because scientists at the ...

Mice that walk straight and fluidly don’t usually make scientists exult, but these did: The lab rodents all had a mouse version of Parkinson’s disease and only weeks before had barely been able to ...

Every patient who is a candidate for knee replacement surgery is a candidate for minimally invasive knee replacement surgery. The orthopaedic surgery specialty of Joshua Murphy, M.D. is a less ...

Eva Weiler was 20 weeks into pregnancy when doctors diagnosed her unborn daughter Alise with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, commonly called HLHS. "She has half a heart. Her left ventricle really ...

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Every patient who is a candidate for knee replacement surgery is a candidate for minimally invasive knee replacement surgery. The orthopaedic surgery specialty of Joshua Murphy, M.D. is a less ...