They're going to try to repair spinal-cord injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2009] Reference

At least 200,000 people suffer from spinal-cord injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Full Stem Ahead] Reference

At 3, she received radiation to treat a spinal-cord tumor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Up Healthy, Afterward] Reference

The treatment, intended to repair spinal-cord injury, sh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryan Mehl: Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009] Reference

The treatment, intended to repair spinal-cord injury, sh ... digg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryan Mehl: Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009] Reference

He has had spinal-cord surgery and has no voluntary muscle movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [USA TODAY Latest news] Reference

He missed the last 14 games of 2008 with a spinal-cord concussion. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore Ravens Team Report] Reference

The device works similarly to spinal-cord stimulators for managing chronic pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronic Pain Can Be Treated With Tiny Injectable Implants | Impact Lab] Reference

Excerpts: What are your thoughts about using stem cells to treat spinal-cord injuries?.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘I’ve Customized My Life’] Reference

We do know this much, however: not all the damage from a spinal-cord injury is immediate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daring Course of Treatment] Reference

At least one spinal-cord stimulation therapy is already in clinical use to treat chronic pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electrical Stimulation Through The Spinal Cord May Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms | Impact Lab] Reference

Accidents with motor vehicles or while working were the leading causes of spinal-cord injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paralysis More Prevalent, Study Finds] Reference

About half of those who suffered from paralysis said the cause was stroke or spinal-cord injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paralysis More Prevalent, Study Finds] Reference

Together, they turned tragedy into a crusade, for children, for research, for spinal-cord injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2005] Reference

Fifteen years ago, Torsten Gross suffered a severe spinal-cord injury in a diving accident in the Bahamas.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘I’ve Customized My Life’] Reference

But as part of the first generation of people living with long-term spinal-cord injuries, Brown is a pioneer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redefining ‘Cured’] Reference

The treatment, intended to repair spinal-cord injury, should be celebrated for the future it gives humankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryan Mehl: Hope, Science and Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research in 2009] Reference

"If the therapy is safe and effective, the potential impact will extend way beyond spinal-cord injury," says Okarma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem-Cell Breakthrough] Reference

I am proud of the fact that I have carried out more operations for spinal-cord tumors than anyone else in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lonely Profession] Reference

SREs included fractures, bone surgery, radiation (to shrink the tumor and relieve pain) and spinal-cord compression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amgen Drug Shown to Delay Fractures in Cancer Patients] Reference

Food and Drug Administration to begin early-stage testing of a chronic spinal-cord injury treatment using stem cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somaxon Surges 29% As Reversal Lifts Russell] Reference

A portion of these funds will be directed specifically to homeless veterans and care of spinal-cord injured veterans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Administration Seeks Funding For Veterans Health Programs] Reference

A biotech company in California says it has permission to perform some tests on 10 patients with spinal-cord injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2009] Reference

Since her husband's death, she's carried on their crusade for spinal-cord research, helping to raise awareness and money.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2005] Reference

Within the past decade a virtual explosion in technology has expanded our ability to perform brain and spinal-cord surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lonely Profession] Reference

The biotech company Geron will test embryonic stem cells, derived from a government-approved line, against spinal-cord injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Stem Cell Era] Reference

A spinal-cord injury, however, can damage or cut both the sensory and action nerves, so that both movement and feeling are lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference

But never mind tragic drownings or spinal-cord injuries: I even could be responsible for sprained ankles or bacterial infections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summertime And Litigiousness Is Easy] Reference

The new lines were derived from the skin cells of patients who had spinal-cord injuries, an immune disorder or juvenile diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [STEM CELLS: BIG STEP FOR A CONTROVERSIAL SCIENCE] Reference

The biopharmaceutical company said U.S. regulators placed its application for a cell therapy to treat spinal-cord injuries on hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saks Climbs by 6.9% and J. Crew by 7.9%] Reference

For example, they have turned stem cells into neurons, which they hope can treat people with brain disorders or spinal-cord injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAQ: What's Up With Stem Cells?] Reference

There were no spinal-cord injuries, no bullets wounds, no cerebral aneurysm to be tied off and carefully removed from a living brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Soldier]

Prior estimates on paralysis and spinal-cord injury were significantly smaller, but they relied on narrower data-collection techniques.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paralysis More Prevalent, Study Finds] Reference

Unlike polio and spinal-cord injury, which come from damage to nerves in the spine, cerebral palsy comes from damage to the brain itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference

And third, the department prohibits brain, spinal-cord tissue and other parts that could contain the disease from entering the food supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humane Society Sues USDA] Reference