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Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Posts

• Helping children and women in Pakistan

  Our Quality of Life grants program knows no boundaries. Donna Valente manages the hundreds of requests we get every year. Recently one of the grantees paid a visit to the home office here in Short Hills, NJ. Asif Kaleem (pictured here with Donna) is the Read More posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:18 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Quality of Life

• Actress is wheelchair-unbound

  I've been talking about Born for Broadway, which is Monday. (Back story: Born for Broadway is a benefit, being held Monday, June 22nd at New World Stages at 8PM. Marcia Milgrom Dodge ("Ragtime" at the Kennedy Center) is directing, and Larry Yurman ("Grey Read More posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:01 PM by gerthro | 2 Comments Filed Under: Events and Workshops

• Device stimulates paralyzed hands, arms to move again

  The Rehabilitation Joystick for Computerized Exercise system, or ReJoyce, is getting tested in Canada and Australia. It is live online rehabilitation with video gaming that hopes to return to spinal cord injury patients movement of their hands. The patient Read More posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:59 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Research News