Quadriplegic’s Recovery Could be a Medical Breakthrough
Russ Evans is a 25-year-old who is proof that the impossible may be possible. He says he was a quadriplegic 10 weeks ago. Now the former athlete can move his feet, fingers and arms. He received a drug...
View ArticleParalyzed Man Walks Again After Breakthrough Cell Transplant
A Polish man who was paralyzed from the chest down following a knife attack can now use a walker after receiving a pioneering transplant treatment using cells from his nose. Movement and sensation are...
View ArticleWild Gorillas Reunited With Little Girl Recognize Her as an Adult (WATCH)
A UK conservationist who raised a pair of Western lowland gorillas in Kent, England went looking for them eleven years after they were reintroduced into the wild of Gabon, West Africa. He wondered if...
View ArticleDrug Can Repair Spinal Cord Injuries, Study Shows
(BBC) – A drug that can encourage nerves in the spinal cord to grow and repair injuries has been developed by scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in Ohio. The study on...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Good News Stories of 2014
In many respects 2014 was a rough year, with Ebola, the Islamic State, and deaths in Ukraine, but it was also one in which social media-inspired kindness, numerous health breakthroughs and positive...
View ArticleRacer Turned Quadriplegic Beats One in a Million Odds With Triumphant Recovery
Fifteen years after a profoundly life-altering accident, Aaron Baker lives a life that medical professionals never believed possible. A professional motocross racer deemed a complete quadriplegic after...
View ArticleDo Animals Have Compassion? These Five Certainly Seem to…
Random acts of kindness aren’t only limited to human beings. In fact, animals should get way more credit for their surprising displays of love, generosity and sacrifice. More similar to humans than...
View ArticleWoman With Cerebral Palsy Braves Controversial Surgery So She Can Ride a Bike...
Nicole Luongo’s lifelong dream was simple: learn to ride a bike. Because she was born with cerebral palsy, that dream remained out of reach for decades. That is, until she turned 39, and learned about...
View ArticleKids and Animals on Same Road to Recovery at Los Angeles Zoo (WATCH)
At first glance, Natalia Juanero and Rhonda the Rhino may seem an odd match. But the spunky six-year-old girl and the celebrity rhinoceros bonded instantly during a hands-on visit at the Los Angeles...
View ArticleTeacher Sells Prized Toy Collection to Buy Wheelchair for Boy He Didn’t Know
A 4-year-old disabled boy is getting a specialized wheelchair, thanks to a generous stranger with an eBay account. Logan Roninger, who has spinal muscular atrophy, loves to accompany his parents, who...
View ArticleDad Builds Halloween Costumes Around Wheelchairs as a Nonprofit
When little Keaton asked if he could be a pirate for Halloween, dad knew he had to find a way to make it happen. It would be a bit of a challenge, since Ryan Weimer’s son needs a wheelchair to get...
View ArticleFootball Tackle Leaves One Paralyzed, Another Full of Guilt, Now Best Friends
A single play, for a single yard, shattered two football players’ lives forever — and made them best friends. In the 30 years since that fateful day when Marc Buoniconti’s tackle of Herman Jacobs left...
View ArticleGood News in History, November 25
31 years ago today, three dozen English musicians gathered in a London studio to record Do They Know It’s Christmas for the sole purpose of raising money to send food to starving families in Ethiopia....
View ArticleUS to Cover Cost of Robotic Legs for Some Paralyzed Veterans
American veterans with spinal cord injuries may soon be back on their feet, thanks to robotic legs and the Veterans Administration (VA). The VA has announced it will start picking up the $77,000 cost...
View ArticleCancer Treatment Shows “Remarkable” Ability to Reverse Multiple Sclerosis...
A medical treatment intended for cancer patients appears to be able to reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS), as well–and some people paralyzed by the condition have been able to walk again....
View ArticleNew Therapy Halts Progression of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Mice
Researchers announced that they have essentially stopped the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, for nearly two years, allowing the mice to approach their...
View ArticleGood News in History, March 6
Happy 70th Birthday to musician, singer, songwriter David Gilmour, who turns 70 years old. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he is best known for his work as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist...
View ArticleGood News in History, March 21
On this day ten years ago, Twitter was launched as a micro-blogging service by Jack Dorsey, who planned it for eight days until the first tweet was sent: “I am trying to install my twitter.” (2006)...
View ArticleGood News in History, May 18
Happy Birthday to baseball great Reggie Jackson, who turns 70 today. After a high school football spinal injury, doctors told Jackson that he might never walk again, but he defied the odds, joined the...
View ArticleParaplegic Inspires Everyone After Learning to Swim, Setting Records
“When I began water therapy,” said Beth. “No one expected me to ever move in the water without someone holding me up.” After my youngest daughter’s C6-7 spinal cord injury, we became a team. Beth,...
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