Neurogenesis: Forming Nerves
Recent research suggests that, throughout life, the adult brain retains a limited capacity to make new neurons. This new knowledge has led to a...
Reeve encourages audience to push for social change
Activist and former actor Christopher Reeve speaks to a packed audience at Irvine Auditorium last night. He advised students to follow their morals.
Bringing audience...
Concert to benefit spinal cord injury victims
While shooting footage last fall for the film adaptation of "Friday Night Lights," the quintessential novel about Texas high school football and the young...
Most pros risk injury, not death
"You've heard the saying, 'I'm going to break my neck trying?' Well, that's pretty much me."
Hard hits, 99 mph fastballs and errant pucks don't...
Motorist rescued after 36 hours on freeway
Associated Press - Information from: Houston Chronicle
FRIENDSWOOD, Texas - A motorist injured after a crash lay paralyzed in the middle of the Gulf Freeway...
Stem-cell research is exciting, but not to investors
SEATTLE - (KRT) - Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold...
New Acute Injury Unit At Groote Schuur
The transfer of the acute spinal cord injury unit from Conradie Hospital to Groote Schuur promises better service delivery to both patients and staff.
Western...
Their lives go on
When 40-year-old Mindy Idaspe learned she would never walk again due to a spinal cord injury in 2002, she was heartbroken. A nurse and...
A man of motion
Jonathan Dehaas doesn't remember the motorcycle accident that robbed him of the use of his legs.
The first time he opened his eyes after the...
A limit, not an end
A local spinal cord injury group forms for networking, information sharing.
Pat York always knew he had a bad vertebra and that it could someday...
