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Murderball Nominated for an Academy Award

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Murderball also took the Audience Award for an American Documentary and a Special Jury Prize...

Geron wants to test stem-cell spinal cord treatment in humans

Scientists have made stunning progress helping paralyzed rats and mice walk again by injecting them with stem cells. Now researchers at Geron of Menlo...

The Lance Armstrong Foundation Supports the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative

The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), which in November joined with dozens of other patient advocacy groups as a member of the Missouri Coalition for...

Hoping to walk again

WILLIAMSPORT -- Robin Larson had just turned 20 when he and his buddies decided to play water tag in a pond. He dived in,...

Nurse heads program to lower injury rates

Virginia R. Corrigan knows how devastating brain and spinal cord injuries can be. While working in the trauma unit at Christiana Hospital in 1993, the...

Through new therapy, some partially paralyzed patients approach walking

DALLAS — It takes a body harness, a sophisticated exoskeleton and a quarter-million-dollar treadmill, but Albert Pruitt walks. Pruitt, who has been partially paralyzed since...

Christopher Reeve Foundation Opposes Administration’s Research Budget

SHORT HILLS, N.J., PRNewswire/ -- The Christopher Reeve Foundation (CRF), a national, non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for cures and treatments for spinal...

Levitra effective for ED due to spinal cord injury

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The impotence drug Levitra is helpful for men who have erectile dysfunction (ED) caused by spinal cord injury, according...

Safe Kids – Car seats, boosters save children’s lives

Most parents know that babies and toddlers need to be restrained in car seats — properly installed and adjusted — every time they ride...

Key lawmakers oppose easing stem-cell rules

A car wreck more than 20 years ago left Danny Heumann paralyzed from the chest down. The Ann Arbor man now runs an organization that...