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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Posts

• Historic Passage of Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act

  Today we applaud the United States House of Representatives for passing the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act (CDRPA - Title XIV of H.R.146), included in the Omnibus Public Land Management Act. The legislation was named for the late Christopher Read More posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:34 PM by gerthro | 1 Comments Filed Under: Community

• Obama and Me: Gary Karp encounters the President

  Gary Karp is a regular speaker on behalf of the Foundation's Paralysis Resource Center. The other day he sent us an email:Yesterday I was extremely fortunate to be in attendance at President Obama's Los Angeles Town Hall meeting. I was especially lucky Read More posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:38 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Community

• Isolation is deadly? Yes.

  The actual headline for this story is Study Finds Social Isolation Makes Strokes More Deadly. It was a study done at Ohio State about mice: "New research in mice suggests that social isolation may promote more damaging inflammation in the brain during Read More posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:24 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Research News

• Spider bite cures paralyzed man? No.

  Four days ago on AOL's Health channel they posted a story and the CNN video under the headline: Paraplegic Man Walks After Spider Bite.  I post this to make the same point my dad tried to make to me when that guy only wanted $600 for that 1967 Plymouth Read More posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:47 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Research News