Spinal Cord Injury In The News

The first shovelfuls of dirt for the new Fisher House in St. Louis were turned last week, even though inclement weather forced its initial construction into a warm theater at the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center at Jefferson Barracks.

ATLANTA, GA -- Milton Oshay Johnson was a championship weight lifter.  He brags about once bench-pressing 305 lbs.  After a traumatic injury left him paralyzed, he'd be elated if he could lift his own fingers.  

When they were 15, Tim O'Shea and his friend Ben Harvey were keen rugby players. But a week before his sixteenth birthday Ben was tackled during a game and his spinal cord was injured, rendering him a quadriplegic. The tragedy has inspired Tim, a QUT biomedical engineering graduate, to go into spinal cord repair research - in a big way.

Cast your memory back to the age of 5 or 6, when your adult helper let go and you wobbled off on your first solo bicycle ride. What was that incredible feeling? Freedom. But what if that freedom was never available to you? A woman named Meida recently...

ETHIOPIA'S greatest sports star, Haile Gebrselassie, has timed his first visit to Melbourne well. He is aware his country's proud sporting heritage endured a difficult birth in this city on this week 52 years ago.

Cells found deep inside the human nose may be able to heal injured spinal cords, tests on rats reveal. Australian scientists have injected cells from the nostril into the damaged spines of laboratory

Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) announced that the Enlarged Board of Appeals of the European Patent Office (EPO) has issued a decision in case G0002/06, which was an appeal by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) against the rejection of claims in WARF’s European Patent Application No. 96903521.1. The claims of the application pertain to the first isolation of human embryonic stem ...

Stem cell research advocates have waited nearly eight years for the policy change President-elect Barack Obama has signaled he'll make in the early days of his administration: lifting the restrictions imposed by President Bush on federal funding for research...

By Eric Gaertner Geoff Newmyer of Fruitport Township married his girlfriend of three years, shot a trophy 14-point deer while bowhunting, worked to keep his business running and volunteered to help another injured person. All this was done while Newmyer, who is paralyzed from the waist down after a hunting accident last October, worked on recovering from his own injury. (Chronicle photo/Ken ...

18-year-old who had turned his life around suffers broken neck.