Monthly Archives: February 2006
World Association of Persons with disAbilities
World Association of Persons with disAbilities has a major advocacy to assist persons with disAbilities to become economically self sufficient. Go to their...
The Lance Armstrong Foundation Supports the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative
The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), which in November joined with dozens of other patient advocacy groups as a member of the Missouri Coalition for...
Through new therapy, some partially paralyzed patients approach walking
DALLAS — It takes a body harness, a sophisticated exoskeleton and a quarter-million-dollar treadmill, but Albert Pruitt walks.
Pruitt, who has been partially paralyzed since...
Nurse heads program to lower injury rates
Virginia R. Corrigan knows how devastating brain and spinal cord injuries can be.
While working in the trauma unit at Christiana Hospital in 1993, the...
Hoping to walk again
WILLIAMSPORT -- Robin Larson had just turned 20 when he and his buddies decided to play water tag in a pond. He dived in,...
IKAN Sports Foundation
We’re here to help people who are quadriplegic due to spinal cord injury as well as those affected by diseases such as cerebral palsy,...
Key lawmakers oppose easing stem-cell rules
A car wreck more than 20 years ago left Danny Heumann paralyzed from the chest down.
The Ann Arbor man now runs an organization that...
Safe Kids – Car seats, boosters save children’s lives
Most parents know that babies and toddlers need to be restrained in car seats — properly installed and adjusted — every time they ride...
Levitra effective for ED due to spinal cord injury
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The impotence drug Levitra is helpful for men who have erectile dysfunction (ED) caused by spinal cord injury, according...
Christopher Reeve Foundation Opposes Administration’s Research Budget
SHORT HILLS, N.J., PRNewswire/ -- The Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF), a national, non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for cures and treatments for spinal...