Monthly Archives: November 2011
AMS Wheelchair Vans
AMS Vans sells and rents new and used handicap accessible vans for some of the lowest prices online. AMS Vans delivers handicap vans nationwide....
Exoskeletons Will Be the Eyeglasses of the 21st Century
We don’t often realize it, but all fashion is predicated upon human beings’ predilection for prostheses and augmentations. All clothing, bags, and shoes are...
The Injury Cooperative
The Injury Co-Op is a comprehensive resource for catastrophic injury survivors and their families who are seeking guidance on the journey to recovery. Created...
Geron Is Shutting Down Its Stem Cell Clinical Trial
The company conducting the world’s first clinical trial of a therapy using human embryonic stem cells said on Monday that it was halting that...
Stemedica Neural Stem Cells Successful in Preclinical Study of Spinal Cord Injury
Transplanted neural stem cells (NSCs) developed by Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc., a leader in adult allogeneic stem cell manufacturing, research and development were successful...
Guide helps people with spinal injuries get fit
As a younger man, Jake Lawless would tell friends that if they had a car accident with him as a passenger, they had better...
Medicare’s no match for catastrophic injury
It is as simple as this: One Sunday in September, Tracy Dort-Kyne flipped over the handlebars of her bike, and woke up a quadriplegic....
Whatever Happened To… the quadriplegic who defied medical odds?
Pat Rummerfield is a busy man. He is a marathoner, an Ironman Triathlon finisher, a speedboat racer and a world-speed-record-setting auto racer. He is...
‘It’s all about attitude’
AUSTRALIAN hand cycling champion Michael Taylor is on track to represent his country at the London Paralympics next year.
If named in the Australian squad...
Call for paralysed participants in clinical trial
A pioneering treatment for people paralysed with spinal cord injuries is now in the early stages of a clinical trial in New Zealand. Paralysed...
