Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: Advocacy

Buckle-up drive enlists the wheelchair-bound

"Buckle up, or you could end up like me!" This is a warning from wheelchair-bound Ernest Sithole, who, together with 44 other members of...

Bolivian aerial wheelchair protest

A group of disabled people in Bolivia are taking extreme measures to demand financial assistance from the government. A Bolivian television network showed at least...

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...

Redefining ‘Cured’

A spinal-cord-injury activist puts a new priority on living with—not fighting—paralysis. Ever since 1988, wheelchairs have figured into Alan T. Brown's dreams. That was...

City to host Ms. Wheelchair America pageant this weekend

A diverse group of women from 27 states -- college students, volunteers, office workers, grandmothers -- will gather in Rapid City this week to...

How you can help our most severely wounded warriors

Today's Care. Tomorrow's Cure. Half of what we do here is about the care! And as many of you know, care costs a lot. Our friends...

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...

Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act Signed by President Obama as Part of Omnibus...

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation expresses appreciation to Congressional co-sponsors for passing first legislation specific to the paralysis community SHORT HILLS, N.J., March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...

Cash boost coming for stagnant U.S. medical research

After years of stagnant funding, medical research in the United States is set for a big cash infusion that experts expect will boost work...

Group protests SRS assistance freeze

A small group of protesters, several of whom were seated in wheelchairs, gathered in 30-degree weather outside the Hays office of Kansas Social and...