Tag: Hope
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...
Resident says city is balking on wheelchair ramp promise
Pamela Bell has been disabled for more than three years.
When a spinal cord injury eventually made the Jacksonville resident wheelchair bound a year and...
Goal Driven
Despite challenges, Lindsay Heimkes still making strides
FILER - In 2006, Lindsay Heimkes joined the ranks of the more than 11,000 spinal cord injury cases...
Road to Recovery
One warm summer evening, Tamara Mena-Perez lay in her bed gazing at a row of medication bottles on her dresser.
She started getting angry. It...
Wheels turn as Allore reiterates vow to walk again
Ken Allore has never given up hope that one day he will walk again.
Allore is determined to do what he can to make...
Stem Cell Scientist Sets Record Straight on Spinal Cord Injury Trials
There's been lots of confusion and some mischaracterizations about when the first embryonic stem cell clinical trial might take place and what it might...
Injury gives athlete opportunities
Most people might not say a spinal cord injury is a positive event in their lives. Brian Sheridan does.
A life-long athlete who had hoped...
The gift that keeps on giving
Matthew Nagle only lived 27 years, but his example of encouraging disabled people to strive for a better way of life by participating in...
Promise Shown For Curing Injured Spinal Cord By Radiation Therapy Combined With Microsurgery
Research on rats with crushed spinal cords, similar to human injury, reveals that treatment soon after injury combining radiation therapy to destroy harmful cells...
Paralyzed athletes pin hopes on UCI researcher
An Irvine professor studies stem cells to look for a treatment for spinal cord injuries.
The motorcycle roars to life.
From his wheelchair David Bailey watches...
