Tag: Spinal Cord
Cheerios salutes wheelchair athlete
As head of the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratory, Rory Cooper is helping to guide emerging technologies and treatments to improve mobility...
Wheels for Toddlers
CHICAGO (Ivanhoe Newswire) — There are more than 5 million kids living with disabilities in the United States. Many times, their unique physical challenges...
Stem Cell Breakthrough By Mount Sinai Hospital Researcher
In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells...
Canadians make stem cell breakthrough
Canadian researchers have found what could be a new way to make embryonic-like stem cells, a discovery that could lead to cures for devastating...
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....
Molecules Self-assemble To Provide New Therapeutic Treatments
ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2009) — Researchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major...
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...
