Tag: Spinal Cord
Eastwood Continues Disability Vendetta with “Million Dollar Baby”
Bethesda, Md. - Score one for Clint Eastwood for his award winning film, "Million Dollar Baby," a brilliantly executed attack on life after spinal...
Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injury
Maintaining a healthy sex life after spinal cord injury is an important priority to many people. Fortunately, over the past few years a large...
Clint Eastwood and ‘opportunism’
"I think it's opportunism."
Clint Eastwood, talking to the Los Angeles Times's Chris Lee, was referring to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's statement that...
Device Shows Promise for Spinal Cord Injury
SATURDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- A experimental device designed to regenerate nerve fibers in people with spinal cord injuries shows promise, says an Indiana...
Book: Roll Models, by Richard Holicky
Why do some spinal cord injury survivors succeed after injury and others spiral into inactivity and depression? Richard Holicky, himself a survivor, profiles 53...
Ethicists Wary of New Stem Cell Proposals
WASHINGTON -- A member of the President's Council on Bioethics and two Columbia University scientists are promoting new research methods that could, they say,...
The comeback kid
The odds were against W&M cornerback Stephen Cason ever walking again, much less sparking a Division I-AA quarterfinal rally.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Want to see...
Paralyzed Floridian hopes to walk again
By Tal Abbady - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - He once was a swimmer and scuba diver whose idea of a quick afternoon...
Helping to heal complications from spinal cord injury
By: News-Medical in Medical Research News
A London scientist has received a major grant to help improve the quality of life for individuals with spinal...
‘BrainGate’ Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape
An implantable, brain-computer interface the size of an aspirin has been clinically tested on humans by American company Cyberkinetics. The 'BrainGate' device can provide...
