Yearly Archives: 2006
QUADRIPLEGIC MOM WALKS: After gymnastics move goes wrong, a remarkable recovery
RANDOLPH - As a child, Diane Niles loved doing cartwheels. She found them easy - up and over. So when her 12-year-old daughter, Ashley,...
Green light for stem cell program
SAN FRANCISCO — California's stem cell agency last week approved a four-year, $151 million grant program focused solely on human embryonic stem cell research...
I hoped I’d be able to walk, says scam victim
Wheelchair-bound Justine Asher forked out R120 000 on what she believed was a "miracle" stem-cell cure that would allow her to walk again -...
Slippery-slope concerns are valid
JUST when you think the debate over embryonic stem cells can't get any more degraded, an outfit called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution...
Little by little, stem-cell supporters gaining ground
When Bernie Siegel started pushing for stem-cell research three years ago, the tide was moving decidedly in the other direction.
Laws were being proposed to...
cotton to the core Jim MacLaren
When ex-football and lacrosse star Jim MacLaren graduated from Yale a little more than 20 years ago, he thought life's plan for him was...
Everyone is a Player
The paralyzed patients at Rehab Hospital are taught how to relearn their skills and sports
DAWNA ZANE has won the marathon in Honolulu, paddled in...
A cruel joke, a broken spine, a new purpose
Pedro Toala, soaked with human waste and blue-ish chemicals, could hear the kids laughing outside the portable toilet they had just tipped over.
Toala was...
The spinal cord – The brain and body connector
The spinal cord is the all-important switchbox that connects the brain with the body. It's like a big bundle of wires entering a telephone...
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center has over 50 years of experience providing quality care for persons with physical disabilities. In the 1950's, Rancho...
