Tag: Cerebral Palsy
New Technology Can Be Operated By Thought
ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2007) — Neuroscientists have significantly advanced brain-machine interface (BMI) technology to the point where severely handicapped people who cannot contract even...
PROBLEMS PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED ATHLETES FACE
The number of physically impaired athletes, who includes wheelchair athletes, amputees, and athletes with cerebral palsy, visual impaired and intellectually impaired athletes has substantially...
Stem-cell therapy: Cure or hoax in China?
'Some get miracles'; others are skeptical
The website for Beike Biotechnology bursts with stories that can only be categorized as medical miracles: a Paraplegic can...
First steps on a long road
One evening this March, at a military hospital in northeast China, Paraplegic Jason McCue moved his legs.
It happened when the 31-year-old Calgarian was watching...
Q Therapeutics Wins Biotechnology Innovation Award for 2007
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Q Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the 2007 Utah Innovation Award for Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals. The award honors Q's...
Q Therapeutics Announces New Stem Cell Patent
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Q Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it was awarded Patent Number 7,214,372, titled "Methods Using Lineage Restricted Glial Precursors from the...
Fighting spasticity
Doctors increasingly implant pumps, inject Botox to relieve muscle spasms
Spokane Physiatrist Dr. Karen Stanek says a fast-growing number of people here are using...
An Oregon Tale
RECENTLY MY OLDEST son, Noah, graduated from the University of Oregon. He wore the traditional cap with tassel as a concession to his mother’s...
Theatrical group fosters public awareness on disabilities
Close your eyes and enter a room, you hear a director yell out to a cast, “Move stage left, move forward, 5, 6, 7,8…!”...
Meredith Gets Around
A column about restaurant happenings and food musings, home and away.
Just as the Great White Way darkens to signify a Broadway loss, so it...
