Yearly Archives: 2014
Paralysed man Darek Fidyka walks again after treatment by British doctors on brink of...
Sufferers can now be offered the possibility of cure thanks to a revolutionary implant of regenerative cells
Millions of paralysis sufferers are today offered the...
To walk again – the people behind the story
It is a moment I will always remember. On a warm summer's day in Wroclaw, Poland, Darek Fidyka walked across a bridge, using only...
Paraplegic groom walks down aisle thanks to robotic exoskeleton
http://youtu.be/qomGq6ysd9E
Matt Ficarra was paralyzed from the chest down in a freak boating accident in 2011, but he didn’t let that prevent him from walking...
Hand-Control-Car.eu
Probably the best car hand control for disabled drivers (for cars with automatic transmission).
The device works based on the PUSH - PULL principle.
The device...
Paralyzed man Brandon Stone skydives for charity
“I feel like I’m on death row,” Brandon Stone said, only half-jokingly, on Saturday morning.
Stone, 33, was about two hours from his first skydive....
Quadriplegic Stuart Turner speaks at WIRED2014 via drones and robots
Computer scientist and founder of Robots and Cake Stuart Turner took to WIRED2014's London stage to talk about open access systems. He did so...
Monroe’s Nichols envisions “World without wheelchairs”
Ever since fracturing his C-5 vertebra in a varsity game earlier this year, former Monroe High School ice hockey star Mikey Nichols is constantly...
Spinal cord injury victims may benefit from stem cell transplantation studies
Two studies recently published in Cell Transplantation reveal that cell transplantation may be an effective treatment for spinal cord injury (SCI), a major cause...
Stem cells from human embryos prove safe, improve vision -study
(Reuters) - The longest-running trial of stem cells derived from a human embryo found that the cells caused patients none of the problems scientists...
Adventurer Mark Pollock: The Mark of a real man
Adventurer unbowed despite blindness and paralysis, says Suzanne Harrington
ON the evening of November 12, in 30 cities, including Dublin, Cork, Belfast, London and Manchester,...
