Patients heading abroad for hope

Those with spinal injuries brave risks to find new therapies overseas McKINNEY – Two weeks after Tonya Winchester celebrated her high school graduation, an 18-wheeler...

Fund-raiser to aid Stockyards co-owner left paralyzed

On Jan. 9, Mark Wagner was a runner and skier, a man in perfect physical condition. He was a flight captain with US Airways....

Bell and Rick Hansen Foundation Launch Partnership

Bell welcomes Rick Hansen to its Olympic and Paralympic family and supports youth engagement expansion VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 28 /CNW Telbec/ - Bell and...

Do it for Dan almost done

A fundraising event held Saturday for 18-year-old Dan Edwards has brought the Do It For Dan fundraising campaign to the verge of reaching its...

Road back to stage is slow but inspiring for Terry Earp

An audience gathers on a warm Friday evening in May inside the cramped Scottsdale studio of Arizona Women’s Theatre Company for a staged reading...

Patients teaching doctor history of war

At Walter Reed, he treats amputees, soldiers with brain and spinal injuries from battles in Iraq and Afghanistan WASHINGTON - When the Army doctor walked...

Vet Travels to Mexico To Receive Stem Cell Treatment

(KABC-TV) - Stem cell therapy is the next frontier in medicine. Scientists hope to someday use stem cells as the ultimate body-repair kit, growing...

N.H. man sentenced in crash that paralyzed Methuen woman

LAWRENCE - Dana Martino of Methuen is doing her best to defy the opinions of doctors who said she may never walk again because...

Donor gives Shriner’s hospital $10 million

Attorney H. Patrick Weber took the unusual step last December of calling his friend, Glenn Huber, chairman of Shriners Burns Hospital in Cincinnati, late...

Battle of the bands to help paralyzed Kaukauna teen

KAUKAUNA — Wisconsin bands will turn up their amplifiers to help the family of a teenager paralyzed in an April 1 crash. Kaukauna High School...