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FDA GIVES MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS GREEN LIGHT TO BEGIN HUMAN CLINICAL TRIAL
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to begin a revolutionary Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety of transplanting human Schwann cells to treat patients with recent spinal cord injuries.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Justin Serrano was 13 the first time he was stopped by police. He says he was walking his 7-year-old brother home from school when police forced him against a wall, patted him down and kept him in the back of a patrol car for more than an hour while both boys cried.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Worshipers leave the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro after noon prayers Friday, in Tennessee. Opponents of the mosque waged a two-year court battle trying to keep it from opening
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Poland’s prosecutors said Friday they had extended to February an ongoing probe into the country’s alleged hosting of a CIA secret prison where top Al-Qaeda terror suspects were tortured.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
An extraordinarily lengthy report by state media on the trial of the wife of a disgraced top Chinese politician clarifies that she will be convicted and punished, but leaves questions over the fate of her husband.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Two people died after protests in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan over the ethnic violence in Assam, turned violent. The police had to fire in the air and use batons to disperse the crowd after some people burnt vehicles, including media vans.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
A man was arrested Friday over a serious sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl that stoked fears of a possible serial attacker in a popular holiday area of central France.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
An Afghan working on an installation shared by Afghan and foreign forces shot to death three US service members, raising to six the number of Americans killed by their Afghan partners in a single day, officials said Saturday.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Myanmar has allowed entry of Islamic relief organizations into its territory to provide needed assistance to the violence-hit and displaced Rohingya Muslims.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Philippine authorities scrambled to provide food and other emergency provisions Saturday to more than two million people affected by widespread flooding, as the death toll rose to 66.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Supporters of Kazakhstan opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov said Saturday that his trial on charges of seeking to overthrow the Central Asian nation’s government is set to begin next week.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
President Barack Obama Friday called Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an “American patriot” after a group of Republican lawmakers accused her of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political organization.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
At least 52 people, including 18 women and two children, died and 46 others injured when an overcrowded private bus veered off the road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district.
Sunday, 12 - August 2012
Japan said Saturday it will take the long-running islands territorial dispute with South Korea to the International Court of Justice, after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak made a surprise visit to the islands this week.
