Yearly Archives: 2009
Bladder cancer in spinal cord injury patients
Retrospective review.Objective:Spinal cord injury is a known risk factor for bladder cancer. The risk of bladder cancer has been reported at 16-28 times higher...
Ten-year follow-up of sildenafil use in spinal cord-injured patients with erectile dysfunction
Data are sparse concerning the long-term effects of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors for erectile dysfunction (ED).
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of long-term...
University of Louisville neuroscientists hope to get people walking again
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Neuroscience researchers at the University of Louisville will be the only team collaborating with an international group of scientists who last...
Creating the best possible clinical trials
The Reeve Foundation's North American Clinical Trials Network NOA Task Force met September 24th in Dallas, TX to continue what it began last May...
October is National Disability Employment Awareness month
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Below is the official government explanation of what that is. The question is, what does that mean...
Miracle man walks again
IN THE two years since a bizarre motel fall left him with a terrifying spinal cord injury, Maryborough's Peter Edwards never gave up.
With an...
Road To Recovery
TUPELO, Miss. - Not long ago, Jade Yates lived the life of a normal active- teenager; then everything changed in a split second.
"I was...
Two Powerful Foundations Join Forces To Create the Nation’s Premier Spinal Cord Injury Organization
Life Rolls On Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Merge
SHORT HILLS, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On what would have been Christopher Reeve's...
New Academy to Improve Health Care for the Spinal Cord Injured Supported by Paralyzed...
DALLAS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new interdisciplinary force for quality health care for people living with spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D), the Academy of...
Life; Paralyzed Exhibit
Christina Symanski is a painter. She has an exhibit going on right now at Kean University in New Jersey.
I’m happy to report that...
