Tag: Spinal Cord

Paralyzed teen forced to reset goals

PORT ST. LUCIE — Seventeen-year-old Tiffany Przenkop saw her friend screaming from under the dashboard and flames shooting from under the hood when she...

Wheels in Motion ready to roll

Rick Hansen event raises funds for spinal cord injuries and research Powell River's third annual Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion takes place from 10 am...

Spinal injury patient shows improvement

Chandigarh, March 28: A spinal cord injury victim who was a subject of stem cell experimentation at PGI has shown tremendous progress, doctors said...

Boston Life Makes Cethrin Payment

Boston Life Sciences Makes $7.5 Million Cethrin License Payment to BioAxone Therapeutic HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) -- Biotechnology company Boston Life Sciences Inc. said Tuesday it...

Doctors stress ATV safety

The deaths of two Arkansans in all-terrain vehicle accidents over the weekend were a reminder that ATV accidents are on the rise in the...

An Oregon Tale

RECENTLY MY OLDEST son, Noah, graduated from the University of Oregon. He wore the traditional cap with tassel as a concession to his mother’s...

Tide wheelchair squads compete despite disability

TUSCALOOSA -- Much like University of Alabama men's basketball coach Mark Gottfried and women's coach Stephany Smith, Brent Hardin scours the country looking for...

Research Promises New Wound-Healing Materials

Newswise — Researchers are developing scaffoldlike materials designed to be injected into the body where they will quickly solidify to fit any space, repairing...

College wheelchair athletes play in ‘other’ basketball tourney

EDINBORO, Pa. - The nine teams battling it out on the basketball court here aren't listed on any NCAA brackets. There will be no...

Persistence paid off for paralyzed dad

In the weeks following the car accident that left him paralyzed below the waist, Geoff Luther was haunted by worries that he'd lost the...