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News items on 'Spinal Cord Trauma'
Scientists discover how to knit severed spinal cords back together
(The Scotsman 03/08/2009)
SCIENTISTS have taken a major step towards helping people paralysed by spinal injuries by reconnecting the severed nerves of rats with broken backs. A team has shown that regenerating nerve fibres can reform connections in the spine after being guided to the right targets. Back and neck injuries often result in the person becoming paralysed because, unlike peripheral nerves, the "wires" of the spinal cord do not naturally mend themselves.
Assisted suicide referred to CPS
(BBC 20/10/2008)
The case of a rugby player who died in a Swiss assisted suicide clinic is to be referred to the complex case unit of the Crown Prosecution Service. Daniel James, 23, from Worcester, was paralysed when he suffered a collapsed spine in a training session at Nuneaton Rugby Club, Warwickshire in 2007. Police are investigating after he died in Switzerland on 12 September.
Mother defends rugby suicide son
(BBC 18/10/2008)
The mother of a paralysed rugby player who died in a Swiss assisted suicide clinic had defended in an e-mail debate her son's right to die, it has emerged. Daniel James, 23, of Worcester, died on 12 Sept. His mother Julie e-mailed the Daily Telegraph's website on 4 October, urging readers not to judge him. She criticised a woman - described as "well meaning" - for contacting the police.
We had to help our paralysed son die: Anguish of parents quizzed by police after taking crippled rugby player to suicide clinic
(Daily Mail 18/10/2008)
The mother of a paralysed rugby player who killed himself at a suicide clinic has defended her right to help him end a life 'filled with terror and indignity'. Julie James is said to have been questioned by detectives investigating the death of her 23-year-old son Daniel in Switzerland last month. He believed his damaged body had become 'a prison' and had tried to kill himself several times.
We had to help our paralysed son die: Anguish of parents quizzed by police after taking crippled rugby player to suicide clinic
(Daily Mail 18/10/2008)
The mother of a paralysed rugby player who killed himself at a suicide clinic has defended her right to help him end a life 'filled with terror and indignity'. Julie James is said to have been questioned by detectives investigating the death of her 23-year-old son Daniel in Switzerland last month. He believed his damaged body had become 'a prison' and had tried to kill himself several times.
Mind power moves paralysed limbs
(BBC 15/10/2008)
Using a gadget called a brain-machine interface, Dr Chet Moritz and colleagues re-routed motor cortex control signals from the brains of temporarily paralysed monkeys directly to their arm muscles. The monkeys were then able to tense the muscles in the paralysed arm, a first step towards producing more complicated goal-directed movements, such as grasping a cup or pushing buttons, say researchers.
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