Young accident victim continues journey to recovery
Margaret Romph, 5, will be transferring to facility in Maryland
On Jan. 2, the Romph family’s lives changed forever.
A car accident left the youngest, 5-year-old...
Breathing Device For Spinal Injuries
Surviving a spinal cord injury is something to be thankful for, but it's still devastating.
For one New Yorker, an accident changed his life forever...
U.S. behind on embryonic stem cell research
When I taught at Rutgers University, my department chair was Wise Young, a pioneer in spinal chord rehabilitation. The Keck Center, where the research...
Patient Voices: Spinal Cord Injury
Life after a spinal cord injury is filled with the challenge of accepting your injury, coping with your limitations and adjusting to an entirely...
Hans Keirstead to brief Congress on stem cell research
UCI scientist is behind the field’s first human clinical trial
Irvine, Calif., UC Irvine’s Hans Keirstead – the neurobiologist behind what will be the world’s...
Meeting with Congress
UCI scientist will visit Capitol Hill to share plans he has with other researchers regarding stem-cell treatments.
A leading neuroscientist and co-director of UCI’s stem...
The Whole World Is Watching
Hope—and anxiety—run high as the first clinical trial of embryonic-stem-cell therapy begins this summer.
Six weeks before the hoopla over President Barack Obama's executive order...
Pinay scientist raises hope for the disabled
Yadong Wang, assistant professor at the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of Georgia Tech and Emory University, and graduate student Christiane Gumera have developed...
Adventure Therapy
A LIFELONG STRUGGLE: People who have suffered spinal cord injuries are at higher risk for obesity than those who haven't. Because they're often confined...
Robot helps spinal cord patients remember how to walk
AT CARDINAL HILL, ROBOT AIDS THERAPY
Scott Crawford wants to walk again. In September, a pile of wooden pallets fell on Crawford. The accident left...
