Tag: Travel
Mother, daughter duo beat disability
It's been an addiction since she tried it in New York City one year after the car accident.
Melinda Baker, 39, of Bushnell, Fla., decided...
Medical Marvel
Doctors can't explain why Pat Rummerfield is able to run marathons and race cars. Even so, there are scores of quadriplegics who long to...
Check water depth before swimming
The Spinal Injuries Association is urging Queenslanders to take special care when swimming, driving or traveling through bushland following recent widespread flooding in Queensland.
Acting...
China Offers Unproven Medical Treatments
BEIJING (AP) — They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...
Desperate Americans seek unproven cell treatments in China
BEIJING (AP) - They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...
After accident, Katie Mathews knows what life is about now
She just wants to be herself. "Normal," she says.
But Katie Mathews, 17d, has had only fleeting glimpses of normal since the wreck in the...
More travel abroad for stem cell therapy
Procedures banned in U.S. offer disabled hope
Six years after a car accident left Jeni Rummelt paralyzed from the waist down, she is traveling to...
Road to independence
St. Teresa man recovering from spinal cord injury suffered in car accident
Michael Curran is inching his way back to independence.
Curran, 32, of St. Teresa...
Court to decide if stem cell surgery is covered
ADRIAN — A Manitou Beach man told a jury Tuesday about regaining some control over the lower part of his body after a stem...
Disabled Newton mom hoping for a miracle
Five years ago, Danielle Shine became a quadriplegic after a car accident. Now, she hopes to raise money for an experimental stem cell transplant...
