Tag: Quadriplegic
QUADRIPLEGIC MOM WALKS: After gymnastics move goes wrong, a remarkable recovery
RANDOLPH - As a child, Diane Niles loved doing cartwheels. She found them easy - up and over. So when her 12-year-old daughter, Ashley,...
Little by little, stem-cell supporters gaining ground
When Bernie Siegel started pushing for stem-cell research three years ago, the tide was moving decidedly in the other direction.
Laws were being proposed to...
cotton to the core Jim MacLaren
When ex-football and lacrosse star Jim MacLaren graduated from Yale a little more than 20 years ago, he thought life's plan for him was...
UK research centre’s ‘IVF-for-eggs’ plan opens up debate on stem cell research
Leading UK-based Christian charity CARE has expressed concern at the recent Council of Europe decision to continue allowing EU taxpayers' cash to fund embryonic...
The Advocate
Don Reed, a tireless proponent for stem cell research, is on a quest to see his son walk again
IN AN AUDITORIUM at San Francisco's...
Aggressive heart pacing may work best in some spinal cord patients
Patients with recurring problems with the heart slowing or stopping after a neck injury damages their Cervical spinal cord may need aggressive therapy to...
Fists fly for charity
FISTS will be flying tomorrow night at Malvern Town Hall in the annual Bob Rose Cup, which will aid the Spinal Cord Society.
Several Collingwood...
Scientists report progress with brain-chip implants
With a tiny electronic chip implanted in the Motor cortex of his brain, a 25-year-old man paralyzed from the neck down for five years...
Paralyzed Man Thinks Robotic Devices into Motion
PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 12 -- A man paralyzed from the neck down has been trained to control a computer cursor and manipulate robotic prostheses...
Surgery offers hope, but price is high
Insurance won't cover operation that could restore function, feeling, normalcy to life
A former Fort Campbell soldier who was deployed to Iraq in 2003...
