The Associated Press outlines a new collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and helmet-maker Rawlings to conduct research on concussions and other sports-related head and neck injuries that could include measuring the impact on the brain.

Doctors and scientists from the clinic's Neurological Institute and its Spine Research Laboratory will use equipment manufactured and donated by Rawlings to do research on helmets and other protective accessories used in both baseball... Read more >

The October issue of the journal Experimental Neurology reportson a study showing that MultiStem, a patented adult stem cell therapyproduct from Cleveland-based biopharmaceutical firm Athersys Inc., mitigated the damage of traumatic brain injuries in lab experiments.

MultiStemuses multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPC, which "are obtainedfrom the bone marrow or other tissue sources of healthy, consentingadult donors," according to an Athersys release. In an abstract... Read more >

Five months after the commercial launch of its medical device, CerviLenz Inc. of Chagrin Falls is ramping up for a national marketing push in the third quarter.

The wand-like CerviLenz measures the vaginal cervical length of pregnant women showing signs of preterm labor. In August, Ob.Gyn. Newsreported that in a study involving 52 women, CerviLenz was "similar inefficacy" to another widely used test that, unlike a CerviLenz test,requires lab work.

"Immediate and ... Read more >