Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
POWER celebrates ten years of helping others
For some people a disability can be devastating and for others it becomes a challenge, but with the help of People on Wheels Encouraging...
Man receives therapy in China
HOYLETON — As a speech therapist who works in the King City and surrounding area, Kelly Melton knows how difficult it is to overcome...
Tackling spinal cord injuries
Dr. Ragnarsson is a physiatrist (specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation) and professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai....
Degree of difficulty
Three years ago, when the family appeared publicly for the first time since Tyson Gentry’s spinal cord injury, Bob Gentry said something that has...
Stem cell ‘cure’ boy gets tumour
A boy treated with foetal stem cells for a rare genetic disease has developed benign tumours, raising questions about the therapy's safety.
The boy, now...
Life as a disabled dad: leg-lifting
Ah, my legs. Since my spinal cord injury they are like jellies wrapped around a pair of golf clubs. They feel nothing and do...
FDA Clears Way For Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy
New York, NY (NBC) -- The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first-ever human trial of a medical treatment, derived...
Whatever happened to: Travis Roy
Eleven seconds was all it took to change Travis Roy’s life.
As a freshman at Boston University in 1995, Roy lived his dream of playing...
Mother of paralyzed daugher pleads to pass the ‘Booster’ bill
Lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday from the mother of an eight-year-old girl who now must use a wheelchair.
The Moorhead girl suffered severe spinal cord injuries...
Putting a face on the stem cell argument
SOMETIME SOON, perhaps even this week, President Barack Obama is expected to lift federal regulations on the use of embryonic stem cells in medical...
