APACURE
The Facts on Central Nervous System
Disorders
(Spinal Cord and Brain)
There are an estimated 50 million Americans affected by diseases or disorders of the spinal cord and brain. The list of disorders includes the following: spinal cord injury, memory loss, addiction, schizophrenia, learning disability, depression, violence, stroke, brain injury, dementia, suicide and many others. More than 90% of the American population has experienced or will experience the effects of a brain-related, mental, emotional or behavioral, disease, disorder or injury at some point in their lives. Spinal cord injuries affect 250,000 Americans, costing more than $10 billion yearly. Head injuries have disabled two million individuals, costing the country $25 billion annually. Strokes affect 500,000 new people every year, costing the national economy $25 billion yearly. Spinal cord and brain disorders impact the American economy in excess of $400 billion a year, on direct health care costs and additional indirect lifetime costs. Individual suffering and loss to society, however, are almost impossible to quantify.
Sources: American Paralysis Association and The Dana Alliance for Brain InitiativesApparelyzed - Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support
Stem Cell Research News
- Scientists: Egg shortage hurts stem cell research (The Monterey County Herald)
SAN FRANCISCO ? Facing a human egg shortage they say is preventing medical breakthroughs, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs are pushing the country's top funders of stem cell research to rethink rules that prohibit paying women for eggs. - UW-Madison granted nearly $9 million for stem cell research (The Capital Times)
The University of Wisconsin has been awarded a prestigious $8.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to continue its pioneering work with human embryonic stem cell research. An interdisciplinary team of researchers will use the grant to fund several projects aimed at exploring the unique ability of stem cells to transform themselves into all of the ... - Mich. Board Sets Hearing To Decide If Measure Loosening Stem Cell Research Restrictions Will Be On Ballot (Medical News Today)
The Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Wednesday scheduled an Aug. 21 meeting to review signatures submitted for state ballot initiatives, including a proposal to loosen state restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/Lansing State Journal reports. The board also set an Aug. 13 deadline for opponents to challenge sample signatures. - NIH Grants Will Fund University Of Wisconsin Stem Cell Research (Medical News Today)
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences recently awarded an $8.9 million grant to a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to investigate the "fundamental power" of human embryonic stem cells, as well as cells that have been "reprogrammed" to function like embryonic stem cells, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. - Buck Institute opens stem cell research training lab (Marin Independent Journal)
Mark Bell, a new graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, was one of 12 students learning how to culture human embryonic stem cells Wednesday in a gleaming - NEW YORK: Breakthrough achieved in stem cell research (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Reaching a milestone in stem cell research, scientists at Harvard and Columbia universities reported Thursday that they created the first stem cell lines from a sick person, then coaxed these cells to become nerve cells genetically matched to those that had gone bad in a patient's spinal cord. - Lack of eggs hurts stem cell research (The News Journal)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facing a human egg shortage that they say is preventing medical breakthroughs, scientists and biotech entrepreneurs are pushing the top funders of stem cell research to rethink rules that prohibit paying women for eggs. - Knights of Columbus Adopt Resolution Opposing Abortion and Other 'Offenses Against Life' and Challenging Catholic ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Delegates to the annual international convention of the Knights of Columbus today adopted a resolution opposing "any governmental action or policy that promotes abortion, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, euthanasia, assisted suicide and other offenses against life." - WaferGen to Present at the 28th Annual Canaccord Adams Global Growth Conference (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. , a leading developer of state-of-the-art gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems, today announced that Alnoor Shivji, WaferGen's president and chief executive officer, will deliver a corporate presentation at the 28th Annual Canaccord Adams Global Growth Conference. - UGA prof awarded $9.2M stem cell research grant (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A University of Georgia professor and his research group have been awarded $9.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work with stem cells.