Disabilities on Ice

Bad legs don't stand in the way of sled hockey athletes ON a Friday night, when much of Anchorage was meeting friends for a late-night...

Tim McGraw Sets Summer Tour Swing

McGraw and Billy Bob Thornton will play an April 10 concert in Austin, Texas, to benefit the Gridiron Heroes spinal cord injury organization. Peter...

California Congressman Upsets Pro-Lifers With Embryonic Research Support

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A California Congressman who identifies himself as pro-life is drawing fire for his support of scientific research that results in...

Lawyer overcomes life’s trials

Steve Peters knows trials and tribulations. Only a few, however, are related to his work as a lawyer. Twenty-five years ago, Peters was terribly injured...

Special treatment for Iraqi war victim

13-year-old girl is victim of a wayward U.S. mortar If there is one true thing about war, it is that even the innocent suffer. And...

The Marathon Miracle

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2004--This April, a young man named Jack Shadduck plans to bicycle 26.2 miles--completing the same distance as the thousands of runners...

Award is presented annually to someone who has been instrumental

Joe Thieringer, left, of Westmont receives the Daniel C. Sullivan Teambuilder Award from Dan Sullivan, right, of Pennsauken, at the recent Sullivan Wheelchair Basketball...

Containing the Damage of Spinal Cord Injuries

Nerve cell proteins may help reduce Disability in days after injury WEDNESDAY, March 17 (HealthDayNews) -- New findings from animal studies on nerve cell proteins...

New findings on nerve cell proteins show promise for reducing disability

New findings in animals suggest a potential treatment to minimize Disability after spinal cord and other nervous system injuries, say neuroscientists from Wake Forest...

WR Smith recovering from spinal cord injury

Bryan Mullen covers Vanderbilt athletics for The Tennessean. He can be reached at 726-8947 Wide receiver George Smith has spent the last week in a...