Tag: Cerebral Palsy
Beyond disabilities
Interacting with people who use mobility aids
Probably the most recognisable form of Disability is physical. Yes, it is absolutely true! People using crutches, a...
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Disaboom.com is a dynamic, interactive online community for people with disabilities and those whose lives they touch. It combines disability-related health and lifestyles information...
Defying Western Science, Chinese Biotech Pursues Untested Stem Cell Therapy
Although Beike Biotechnology's promising stem cell treatment is unproven, patients are paying to receive the treatment in China.
Pursuing a controversial medical procedure that shows...
Overseas treatment risky
Stem cell procedures lack evidence
PHILADELPHIA — In February, Marcela DeVivo took her baby son to the Dominican Republic and paid $30,000 to have him...
Stem-cell tourism troubles experts
In February, Marcela DeVivo took her baby son to the Dominican Republic and paid $30,000 to have him injected with blood stem cells from...
Gym gets people with disabilities in shape
Because of a spinal cord injury, Elizabeth Fust is paralyzed from the mid-back down, but don't expect to see her sitting idly by, twiddling...
Sex Life Still Alive for Physically Challenged
GLENCOE, Minn., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Sexuality does not end when a person experiences the effects of a spinal cord injury. Issues of meeting...
Researchers ask: Is China the sleeping giant of biotech?
PARIS (AFP) — China's biotech sector accounts for just a sliver of its pharmaceutical industry and operates under the cloud of a massive review...
China Offers Unproven Medical Treatments
BEIJING (AP) — They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...
Desperate Americans seek unproven cell treatments in China
BEIJING (AP) - They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...
