Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
UR Medical Center chief recounts spring bicycle accident
Riding his bicycle on a hilltop near his Canandaigua home May 30, Dr. Bradford Berk didn't see any cars coming along the narrow North...
Bladder cancer in spinal cord injury patients
Retrospective review.Objective:Spinal cord injury is a known risk factor for bladder cancer. The risk of bladder cancer has been reported at 16-28 times higher...
University of Louisville neuroscientists hope to get people walking again
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Neuroscience researchers at the University of Louisville will be the only team collaborating with an international group of scientists who last...
Miracle man walks again
IN THE two years since a bizarre motel fall left him with a terrifying spinal cord injury, Maryborough's Peter Edwards never gave up.
With an...
Road To Recovery
TUPELO, Miss. - Not long ago, Jade Yates lived the life of a normal active- teenager; then everything changed in a split second.
"I was...
Two Powerful Foundations Join Forces To Create the Nation’s Premier Spinal Cord Injury Organization
Life Rolls On Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Merge
SHORT HILLS, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On what would have been Christopher Reeve's...
New Academy to Improve Health Care for the Spinal Cord Injured Supported by Paralyzed...
DALLAS, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new interdisciplinary force for quality health care for people living with spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D), the Academy of...
Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage
COLUMBUS, Ohio – After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything,...
Paralyzed by football injury, Mount Shasta teen remains upbeat
MOUNT SHASTA - It's been an emotional few weeks for 18-year-old Corben Brooks, who's had to say goodbye as his friends, one by one,...
Asheville’s ‘Paraplegic Chef’ Megan McCauley sets an example
One night changed the course of Megan McCauley's young life.
The former chef at Carmel's Bar and Restaurant was in an ATV accident Nov. 21,...
