A recent article in BioWorld Today by Donna Young discuses the difficulties that traumatic brain injury (TBI) research faces when looking for potential investors. It would seem that financial backers are turned off by past drug failures that are brain injury specific – strokes, brain illnesses and brain trauma. Harry Tracy who runs NI Research,… Read More
Electronic Aids for Daily Living – Your Weekly Tech Report
Electronic Aids for Daily Living (EADL): EADLs are devices and systems that help individuals with a disability gain better control over their environment. These devices are created to meet a variety of needs such as providing voice activation and tongue touch for people with spinal cord injuries. Products such as ActiveHome, which works with your… Read More
National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center – Your Resource for the Week
This week’s resource is the National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center (DSW). The Website, created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in response to the growing need for caregivers, provides information on care professionals, care attendants, personal assistance providers, home health aides and others. The DSW database provides a variety of resources to… Read More
Better Visual Access to Spinal Cord Injury Research
Late last week the Allen Institute for Brain Science revealed its Allen Spinal Cord Atlas. The atlas is the world’s first genome-wide map of the mouse spinal cord. This information will give researchers immediate access to a wealth of free online data that can be applied tospinal cord injury treatment. According to their press release,… Read More
SCI Surgery Without Scarring?
Lee Sang-ho with Wooridul Spine Hospital is involved with the creation of a “less painful and more effective” spinal disc treatment through “minimally invasive” spinal surgery. Lee eschews the usual method of back surgery which involves cutting into the back through skin, muscle, nerves and bone in order to reach the spinal discs. The discs,… Read More
Traumatic Brain Injury Research -Your Weekly Spotlight
ClinicalTrials.gov is this week’s spotlight. This Website is dedicated to providing information on a variety of traumatic brain injury(TBI) trials. If you are interested in participating in cutting edge research regarding various aspects of TBI, this is a good place to start looking for information. Clinical trials are essential to TBI research as they determine… Read More