Category Archives: Spinal Cord Injury Treatment

The Rams confirmed that Easley will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, but did not specify the injury. "We received word that it is going to be an injury that's going to require surgery, and he's going to be out for an extended period of time," head coach Sean McVay said on the Rams' website. "But he's a guy that's done all the things we've asked of him. And we love Dominique. We're going to embrace him." -- The Miami Dolphins confirmed running back Jay Ajayi has been diagnosed with a concussion and ruled out of practice. Ajayi, 24, was hit hard during Monday's full-contact practice and was escorted off the field. He will miss at least a week of drills, sources told the Miami Herald. -- Houston Texans wide receiver Will Fuller is out indefinitely with a broken collarbone after leaving practice with the injury. Fuller was a first-round pick in 2016 and earned a starting spot opposite DeAndre Hopkins. -- Jacksonville Jaguars running back I'Tavius Mathers was released from a hospital, one day removed from sustaining a cervical spinal cord injury during practice. The team announced the update on Mathers, noting that the medical … Continue reading →

Boston Business Journal InVivo halts trial of spine injury treatment after third patient dies Boston Business Journal InVivo (Nasdaq: NVIV) announced that it would temporarily stop enrolling patients in the trial of its Neuro-Spinal Scaffold, a biodegradable device invented in part by MIT professor Bob Langer designed to help patients heal after spinal cord injuries. InVivo Therapeutics Announces Updates on the INSPIRE Study ...Business Wire (press release) Invivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp - Receive News & Ratings DailyTheOlympiaReport InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV) Plunges 5.56% on August 01Equities.com Investing News Update -Highland Mirror all 39 news articles » Read the original post: InVivo halts trial of spine injury treatment after third patient dies - Boston Business Journal … Continue reading →

General News of Monday, 31 July 2017 Source: Arthur Krampah Spinal cord injury renders the patient indisposed. For a Ghanaian who is currently indisposed with no degree certification (as I couldnt graduate due to the incident), producing 1.4 billion old Ghana Cedis was like flying to the moon. My family (my mum especially) having spent over 2 billion old cedis on my treatment, they did their best to gather the said $32, 000 to fund my bills. Their efforts were like a grain of sand at the beach. The more they tried, the more we realized how hopeless it is to produce the money. Luckily, one of my friends from Adisadel College proposed that I come out to the public through the Media, hoping that my fellow countrymen or a Good Samaritan will locate us and come to our aid. A friend indeed Through the support of my friend and friends, I was able to use the platforms of some broadcasting companies in the country like the Daily Graphic, TV3 , TV Africa, Coastal TV and Adom TV in to tell the world my story, appeal for funds and assistance. However, the feedback was not as I thought initially. My … Continue reading →

KATHMANDU, August 1: More than 17,000 people received medical treatment in the past one year under the government's poor citizens' medical treatment program (PCMTP), officials said. Altogether 17,218 new and old patients suffering from various diseases like cancer, kidney, heart and spinal cord complications among others received treatment from various 52 health institutions across the country, said the Logistics Management Division of the Department of Health Services. Of the total Rs 1.5 billion spent in their treatment, Rs 1 billion has already been released while the remaining Rs 500 million is yet to be released, the Division said. For the current fiscal year, Rs 1.18 billion has been set aside for the same programme. The government has been providing monetary assistance for the treatment of patients suffering from various eight major diseases like kidney, heart, cancer, spinal cord injury and head injuries, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and sickle-cell. Under this programme, a maximum of Rs 820,000 is provided for each patient with the aforementioned diseases requiring dialysis, transplant and medicines, while in cases of other disease, treatment worth maximum of Rs 100,000 is provided. The beneficiaries include the highest number of 8,646 cancer patients followed by 3,342 suffering from heart disease, 568 … Continue reading →

School of Public Health (SPH) student Jake Maxon (Burnsville, MN) became interested in policy while working among microscopes and petri dishes. After getting his neuroscience degree from Brown University, Maxon researched spinal cord injuries, which involved stem cell research. Policy around stem cells brought a different kind of challenge to our research, and I wanted to know more about how policies are created and implemented, he says. So Maxon enrolled in SPHs Public Health Administration and Policy program, where hes been able to work with many Twin Cities policy organizations, including as a grant reviewer for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and as a policy intern for Hennepin County. But he wanted to understand policy on a federal level. So he applied to the White House Internship Program. After a six-month selection and vetting process, he was assigned to work alongside the three-person team in the Office of National AIDS Policy, which works to create an integrated approach to the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Weve advanced medical care for HIV/AIDS patients, so many people in our country forget that HIV is still an epidemic and its still a public health crisis, says Maxon. More than 4,300 residents in … Continue reading →

NEW HAVEN >> Researchers at ReNetX Bio are hoping a new name, the potential for a new influx of cash on the horizon and a new chief executive officer are the winning combination needed to bring its lead drug candidate to market. ReNetX Bio is looking to guide its drug candidate, Nogo Trap, through its first round of clinical trials. Company officials say Nogo Trap is designed to help patients with chronic spinal cord injury. The science behind Nogo Trap comes out of work done by Stephen Strittmatter, director of Yale Universitys Department of Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair. And Strittmatter is relaunching his former company, Axerion Therapeutics, as ReNetX Bio. The new name is short for Restoration of Neural Network. And with the new name comes a new chief executive officer, Erika Smith. Advertisement Smith comes to ReNetX Bio from Yales Blavatnik Fund for Innovation, where she served as director. She is very passionate about this, not just the company, but the great science and the team that is behind it, said Susan Froshauer, president and chief executive officer of CURE, a New Haven-based group that represents companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. ReNetX appointed Smith as part … Continue reading →

NEW HAVEN A Yale neurology and neuroscience professor who hopes to regrow neurons in patients with spinal cord injuries has secured enough funding for a human clinical trial. Stephen Strittmatters New Haven-based company, ReNetX, also has a new CEO, Erika Smith, who joined the biomedical venture in June after leaving her post as director of Yale Universitys $10-million Blavatnik Fund for Innovation. The company has raised about $20 million from the National Institutes of Health and other sources to carry out the first stages of a trial involving people with tetraplegia, paralysis of all four limbs and the torso. Strittmatter said his approach works like a double negative. He identified a receptor that inhibits the growth of nerve fibers and then created a decoy to block it. That leaves the neurons free to grow or regrow, in this case naturally, as they do in early development. We have this huge hospital and medical complex, Strittmatter said last week at his office in the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, 2 miles from the Yale New Haven Hospital Spine Center. We dont have a single drug that promotes neuroconnection. So if we get it to a trial and if the trials successful, … Continue reading →

Athletic trainers in St. Louis are continuing to train for emergent situations as a number of high school football players across the country continue to die each year. Josh Helmuth, KSDK 11:07 PM. CDT July 30, 2017 American Football Practice Hit Pads (Photo: 33ft, David Lee) ST. LOUIS - Athletic trainers in St. Louis are continuing to train for emergent situations as a number of high school football players across the country continue to die each year. According to the National Center For Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, there have been 35 direct deaths from football since 2010; there have been at least 61 if you count in-direct deaths from causes such as heat stroke. In fact, 2017 has already claimed at least two high school football players: Kamari McGowan of Fairburn, Georgia, and Everson Guild of Grand Ledge, Michigan. And the deaths are almost always teenagers. Why? Unlike college or pro teams, just 37 percent of public high schools across the country have full-time athletic trainers(ATs), according to the National Athletic Trainers Association. Jason Muchow is the director of sports medicine at Mercy Hospital. He believes every high school should have a full-time ATs on staff. I think its direly … Continue reading →

BALTIMORE President Donald Trump on Friday encouraged police officers to be rough with suspects they are placing in custody, an apparent joke Baltimore officials criticized as inappropriate in light of police reform efforts here and elsewhere. Trump was speaking to officers in Suffolk County, New York, to highlight his administrations efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and the street gang known as MS-13. But he took a moment to criticize police officers who he thinks treat suspects too gingerly. When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon you just see them thrown in, rough I said, Please dont be too nice, Trump said, eliciting laughter from officers. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and youre protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over? Like, dont hit their head and theyve just killed somebody dont hit their head. I said, You can take the hand away, okay? A spokesman for Mayor Catherine Pugh characterized Trumps comments as insensitive. City officials are struggling to stunt a spike in homicides that began soon after Freddie Gray died of a spinal cord injury he suffered after being placed without a … Continue reading →

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study in rats shows that changes in the brain after spinal cord injury are necessary to restore at least some function to lower limbs. The work was published recently in the journal eLife. "After injury, the spinal cord cannot go back to its original state before the injury. If an animal receives rehabilitation therapy, we now know that the spinal cord will go to a new state that supports functional recovery. Under these conditions, the brain must also change and re-learn to communicate with the new state of the spinal cord," said Karen Moxon, professor of biomedical engineering at UC Davis and senior author on the paper. Moxon and colleagues used a combination of physical therapy (cycling and semi-load bearing treadmill training) and treatment with the drug serotonin, which stimulates nerve cells, in rats with a severed spinal cord that could not voluntarily move their hind legs. The rats partially recovered their ability to move their hind limbs while on the treadmill and were even able to take consecutive, independent steps, the researchers found. This occurred without healing of the break in the spinal cord. Instead, the nerve cells above the break appear to … Continue reading →