Monthly Archives: June 2007
Puppet teaches fire cadets about people with disabilities
DECATUR - Spencer Goodwin wears a Superman ball cap, jeans and a denim jacket as he sits in his specially made wheelchair to teach...
Bush vetoes bill aimed at promoting stem cell research
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vetoing a stem cell bill for the second time, President Bush on Wednesday sought to placate those who disagree with him...
One of First Patients to Be Implanted with Cyberkinetics’ Andara(TM) OFS(TM) System for Spinal...
Patient treated with Andara(TM) OFS(TM) Therapy for acute spinal cord injury will discuss his progress and the need to support promising new therapies for...
2nd Chinese athlete faces paralysis from injury
BEIJING — A Chinese national volleyball player crashed into a wall during practice and is facing permanent paralysis, making him the second Chinese athlete...
Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Joins InVivo Therapeutics Team
Richard Roberts, PhD, to advise on molecular biology of traumatic spinal cord injury
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, a medical device company focused on restoring...
State to Fund Spinal Cord And Brain Injury Research
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana is about to take a huge step forward in assisting thousands of Hoosiers who have suffered from spinal cord and brain...
The Late Teddy Pendergrass Talks Career After Spinal Cord Injury
Singer Teddy Pendergrass has a voice of gold and was one of our favorite R&B and Soul singers. He made music that we will...
Vets set sights on Wheelchair Games
MANSFIELD -- Lola Sanderson was intrigued when she saw Jonathan Merchant hand-pedaling a three-wheel cycle on the road near her house.
He was young and...
They said she’d never walk again
But, Amanda Boxtel is fighting back
ASPEN — Fifteen years ago when Amanda Boxtel crossed her ski tips at Snowmass Ski Area, she somersaulted and...
Still living life to the fullest
A lot has happened to Andrew Robinson since he was injured last June in a car-bomb explosion in Iraq.
The 24-year-old former North Hanover resident,...
