Tag: Hope

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Awards Nearly $2 Million in Individual Research Grants

Foundation Continues Research Initiatives in Search of a Cure and Therapies for Paralysis SHORT HILLS, N.J., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Christopher and Dana Reeve...

After Spinal Cord Injury, Ohio State Program Gives Hope

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An innovative training device being used at The Ohio State University Medical Center may lead to improved mobility and quality of...

Helping Hands teaches Needham students about safety, with the help of a monkey

Needham - Marie Waitkevich is trying to talk seriously about the importance of wearing a helmet, but a small monkey keeps banging a walnut...

Determined to Recover

Every once in a while, a story reaches out and inexplicably grabs a hold of you. I was surfing the 2008 mountain bike models...

Medical Marvel

Doctors can't explain why Pat Rummerfield is able to run marathons and race cars. Even so, there are scores of quadriplegics who long to...

Medical providers, learn about autonomic dysreflexia

My 21-year-old son fell from a 40-foot Extension ladder while at work and suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury, instantly paralyzing him and rendering...

Scientists re-establish walking in mice with damaged spinal cord

A research by Michael Sofroniew, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)...

Cyclist McCune on road to recovery

It’s been just over six months since Jenny McCune became a commonality in locals’ hearts and prayers. On July 5, the former Gallatin Valley Bike...

Cethrin for treatment of acute spinal cord injury

Alseres pharmaceuticals concludes enrollment in the Cethrin phase I/IIa clinical trial in acute spinal cord injury Alseres Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that it has concluded enrollment...

Mice walk again after spinal cord injuries

SCIENTISTS have figured out how mice can regain some ability to walk after spinal cord injuries, and hope this insight can lead to a...