Tag: Urinary Tract Infection

Roll chair, roll film … action

A Hollywood movie producer clears the path for a big-screen retelling of the Rick Hansen story Calgary native Victor Webster is Mark Gordon, the American...

Medtronic Announces Launch of NIM-Spine System to Help Reduce the Risk Associated with Spinal...

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2004--Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the commercial release of the NIM-Spine(TM) System neural integrity monitor, a surgeon-guided device for locating...

Toyota Donates Sienna Rampvan to Paralyzed Veterans of America

WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) today received the donation of a 2004 Toyota Sienna Rampvan from Toyota Motor...

He’s still Close to perfect

For years Chuck Close has reduced faces into paintings and prints of shorthand data: Noses become dots and dashes, eyes dissolve into a mosaic...

Glimmers of hope as scientists continue their search for the ‘next big thing’

Are stem cells the holy grail for medical research? Donna Chisholm reports on the scientific advances that might help in the battle against disease. If Dr...

Uncharted waters

Tim Swieckowski is a quadriplegic, but a specially designed boat allows him to be one of the few who sail on their own. SAND KEY...

A trip on the bay unlike any other

Monterey Bay Veterans runs two annual fishing derbies for the disabled Dorothy Patton has been fishing Monterey Bay for 42 years. Hooked at the age...

Bryon Riesch Connects Ability to Career Path

Milwaukee Man Named Goodwill's Graduate of the Year ROCKVILLE, MD -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/05/2004 -- Each year, Goodwill Industries International honors an outstanding person...

Robot Helps Paralyzed Patients Move Again

Dallas Lab Only One In Texas Featuring 'Lokomat' DALLAS -- Paralyzed patients in North Texas are learning to walk again at a very unique spinal...

Mayo Clinic researchers have created a method

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have created a method for measuring the growth of new spinal cord nerve fibers in rats, an advance...