Tag: Spinal Cord Injury

‘Oh my God, they are going to kill someone’

Man struggles to put life together after crash What they remember most are the sounds. For Evan Cronhardt, it was the sound of his life changing...

Breathing On Their Own

ATLANTA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every year, spinal cord injuries force more than 11,000 people into a wheelchair. In the most serious cases, just taking...

An interview with Sarah May Scott

Susannah Breslin is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. She is a freelance journalist who blogs at Reverse Cowgirl and is at work on a...

Soldier learning to live with spinal cord injury

CANDLER —Jo Dean Galloway shakes her head as she considers the cruel irony of her grandson's situation. Jake Freeland made it through deployment in Afghanistan...

Final rules out for government stem cell research

WASHINGTON --The government issued final rules Monday expanding taxpayer-funded research using embryonic stem cells, easing scientists' fears that some of the oldest batches might...

Stem cell therapy touches another milestone in spinal cord injury

Stem cell has been a boon to the modern medical research, and it has been creating success stories almost everyday. The research regarding stem...

Spinal Cord Injury Patient Pins Hopes On Stem Cell Therapy

A 34 year old Bangladeshi electronic hardware engineer, resident in the Middle East, who is a paraplegic after tumor surgery, travelled to Bangkok in...

Andy’s mountain chair challenge

A SEVENOAKS man is tackling Snowdon for charity less than a year after being paralysed in an accident. Andy Adamson, 27, of Chipstead Lane, said...

Spinal Cord Injury Job Study

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Vlo-xx8fQ In Cleveland, VA is testing a new program to help Spinal Cord Injury veterans find new jobs and refocus their lives. VA researchers are...

Soon, wheelchairs controlled by tongues

WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a novel headset that makes it possible for a person suffering from spinal cord injury to precisely control a...