Recovery process slow, continuing for Ringling football coach
An old adage says, "Time heals all wounds." While the axiom may have a more emotional meaning, for Ringling football coach Rick Gandy, it's...
Quadriplegic fights to pass legislation to help people with spinal cord injuries
Tiffany Garner - Of the Suburban Journals/Belleville Journal
Matt Langenhorst's life was changed forever in an instant on Feb. 8, 2001 when he and his...
Whatever it takes
She's strapped into what looks like an adult version of a baby walker. Amy Foels doesn't care. "Whatever it takes," she says. She's a...
Back on His Feet
MIRACLE man John Burgess is back on his feet and defying doctors' diagnosis just six months after being told he might never walk again.
Doctors...
Moving Stem Cells Front and Center
IRVINE, Calif. - Hans S. Keirstead might be the Pied Piper of stem cells - and not just because he makes rats walk. He...
Stem-cell research still an embryonic business
Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans...
Now, Dirty Harry Is Gunning for the ADA
I'll apologize to no one for the Americans with Disabilities Act. It's one of the greatest laws ever passed. The ADA covers all races,...
Eastwood Continues Disability Vendetta with “Million Dollar Baby”
Bethesda, Md. - Score one for Clint Eastwood for his award winning film, "Million Dollar Baby," a brilliantly executed attack on life after spinal...
Clint Eastwood and ‘opportunism’
"I think it's opportunism."
Clint Eastwood, talking to the Los Angeles Times's Chris Lee, was referring to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's statement that...
Device Shows Promise for Spinal Cord Injury
SATURDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- A experimental device designed to regenerate nerve fibers in people with spinal cord injuries shows promise, says an Indiana...
