Author Candy Harrington Breaks Down Barriers on the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Americans with...
This July, the United States is proud to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Since being signed into law in 1990,...
Teens with spinal cord injuries
Seventeen-year-old Van Brooks felt somewhat out of place talking to adults with spinal cord injuries after his own paralyzing accident last fall. Sure, the...
Purdue Scientists May Have Found Key to Halting Spinal Cord Damage
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers may have isolated the substance most responsible for the tissue damage that follows...
IS IT WORTH BANKING YOUR BABY’S CORD BLOOD?
When Lisa Recker was pregnant, she was inundated with ads touting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make the "best investment" in the future health of...
Clinical Studies Abroad: What Can We Learn?
Recently there has been news from various countries of the effects of transplanting olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) into people with spinal cord injury (SCI)....
Paralysis patients take a chance
BEIJING — In January 2004, Kim Allen suddenly began having trouble turning the key in her car's ignition. All too quickly, a spreading weakness...
Relentless Pursuit: Buoniconti Keeps Promise, Gives Hope
Nick Buoniconti's Champagne glass was still in the air when the phone rang.
Lounging on a New Jersey terrace beneath a bright October sun in...
Help N.Y. compete
And New York and the Rochester region to this point aren't in the game. The state Legislature should change that before it adjourns.
At stake...
A father apart with lots of heart
For Brian Vail of Mount Gilead, the answer has been to live for 10 years with the debilitating Lou Gehrig's Disease, or amyotrophic lateral...
Insulting Their Injuries
When President Bush Says Stem Cell Research ‘devalues Life,' What Is He Telling The Gravely Injured Troops Back From Iraq?
More than 12,000 soldiers...
