Yearly Archives: 2009
‘Oh my God, they are going to kill someone’
Man struggles to put life together after crash
What they remember most are the sounds.
For Evan Cronhardt, it was the sound of his life changing...
Breathing On Their Own
ATLANTA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every year, spinal cord injuries force more than 11,000 people into a wheelchair. In the most serious cases, just taking...
Milwaukee VA Hospital Gains New Spinal Cord Treatment Center
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $26.9 million contract to design and build a free-standing spinal cord injury center at the...
United Spinal Association Action Alert
How important is health care reform to you? As necessary as having access to adequate and affordable health care coverage when and where you...
An interview with Sarah May Scott
Susannah Breslin is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. She is a freelance journalist who blogs at Reverse Cowgirl and is at work on a...
Quadriplegics Can Operate Powered Wheelchair With Tongue Drive System
An assistive technology that enables individuals to maneuver a powered wheelchair or control a mouse cursor using simple tongue movements can be operated by...
Paralyzed with 7-14 Days to Decide on a Test
In January 2009, Geron, a biotechnology company located in Menlo Park, California, got FDA clearance to inject spinal cells derived from human embryonic stem...
Keep On Rollin Classic Car Show
“Keep on Rollin” is a Classic Car Show organized to raise money for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. The event will be held...
Soldier learning to live with spinal cord injury
CANDLER —Jo Dean Galloway shakes her head as she considers the cruel irony of her grandson's situation.
Jake Freeland made it through deployment in Afghanistan...
Foundation studies extreme blood pressure in people with spinal cord injury
People with spinal cord injury often experience extremes in their blood pressure. Episodes of both very high and dangerously low blood pressures caused by...
