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Ch. 513
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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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certain terms; and generally relating to certain spinal cord injury research.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 7-302
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section l-101(a), (c), and (i)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 13-1001 through 13-1007, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle
"Subtitle 10. State Board of Spinal Cord Injury Research"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Insurance
Section 6-103.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1999 Supplement)
Preamble
WHEREAS, Each year some 10,000 Americans- sustain spinal cord injuries
which typically result in some degree of paralysis; and
WHEREAS, The major cause of spinal cord injuries is motor vehicle crashes and
58 percent of the victims of these injuries are young people between 16 and 30 years
of age; and
WHEREAS, It has long been generally assumed that most persons who sustain
a spinal cord injury can be rehabilitated to some extent, but that damage to neural
tissue is irreversible; and
WHEREAS, The conventional wisdom concerning the successful treatment of
spinal cord injuries has changed dramatically in light of research in Great Britain,
Sweden, and the United States which demonstrates that there are no fundamental
biological barriers to repairing damaged spinal cord neural tissue and that the
possibility of effective regenerative therapies for human neural cell injury is no longer
speculation but a realistic goal; and
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