Tag: Legal

Turning pain to gain

BARTLETT -- More than 18 years ago, 20-year-old Dale Spencer of Bartlett tripped and fell by a set of railroad tracks while taking a...

ThinkFirst speaker has firsthand story Crash victim shares his bad decision to drink and...

Cardington man hopes message helps others CARDINGTON - Jeff Radel is reminded on a daily basis what drinking and driving did to his life. The...

More room for rehab

Frazier tower nearly done; new programs draw patients Jen Boisvert, clad in black exercise clothes, went through some stretches in a sixth-floor gym at...

Out of harm’s way

Teens learned a vital lesson during Spinal Cord Inury Awareness Week. The idea was to educate teens about the dangers of accidents that can...

Celling a Strategy

Opposition to embryo-destroying research is not a losing issue. At least it shouldn’t be. “How can you side with those people?” In 2002, a paralyzed research...

Sweating on a hard sell

The scientific community is holding its collective breath, hoping a change of legislation will allow members to stay in Australia to pursue breakthroughs in...

Stepping Out, Standing Tall

A devastating spinal cord injury has spurred an Irish woman to create a new group dedicated to promoting stem cell research. The first person...

Union players face quadriplegic threat

Rugby union players are four times more likely to wind up as quadriplegics than their rugby league counterparts, new research shows. A study by Adelaide's...

‘I will walk again’

DAP chairman Karpal Singh has been wheelchair-bound since an auto accident last January. During his hospitalisation, he and his family downplayed the severity of...

Anti-Ban Billionaires

Billionaire cash has kept embryonic stem-cell research alive--just barely. Anti-abortion crusaders see research on embryonic stem cells as something akin to murder. Eli Broad sees...