Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Recovery

Fighting back one ‘huff and puff’ at a time

It is back to business for Dick Maloney. On April 15, the veteran entertainer and disc jockey returned to the airwaves with his Sentimental...

Luxemburg Man Feels Connection to Tiffany Pohl

The family of a Kaukauna teen left paralyzed after she was hit by an allegedly drunken driver says the high school senior spoke for...

Neurostimulation Comes of Age

Millions of people worldwide live active lives, thanks to implanted pacemakers that deliver electrical impulses to restore normal function to the heart. Now, electrical...

GH mother learning all over with son

Grand Haven resident Kim Talaga's Mother's Day present won't come with a bow and ribbon this year. The gift arrived almost daily over the last...

‘I feel stronger and stronger every day’

Wheelchair-bound Andrew Merryweather reckons that by Christmas, he will be walking again - at least with crutches. Merryweather was attacked at a Newlands petrol station...

Battle for London 2012 gold

When Sergeant Mick Brennan was caught in a suicide bombing in Iraq, the outlook was bleak. Hurled 25 ft by the force of the explosion,...

Banning stem cell research prolongs suffering

Diabetes affects 140,000 young Australians, who would die unless they received multiple insulin injections each day of their lives. The cause is the self-destruction...

Climber survives 120ft mountain fall after tourists spot him through telescope

Climber Michael Garton's life was saved by a man with a telescope after he survived a fall down a sheer rock face on a...

Celling the Elixir of life

Stem Cell therapy is being touted as the answer to many chronic ailments. But even as research is being done, many are already benefitting...

Paralyzed Vegas Shooting Victim Speaks Out

DENVER - It's been two months since a triple shooting at a Las Vegas night club. Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones was there that...