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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - Posts

• Utah Chapter's Keep on Rollin' car show a big winner

  For the second year, the Keep On Rollin' charity car and bike show to benefit the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation lived up to its name, rolling up huge participation from car owners and spectators. The show, held July 18th at Brighton Ski and Read More posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:26 PM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Events and Workshops, Chapter News

• Watch Professir X and I Believe TV

  What a thrill it was for me today to meet Professir X right here in our offices today. (Although we spent a little too much time on what cool was and how I was the opposite of that.) He was in the receiving end of an over sized Quality of Life grant Read More posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:01 PM by gerthro | 1 Comments Filed Under: Quality of Life

• Blue food dye treats spine injury in rats

  This is from Wired today. Note that the hard part is getting money to do more research because no one could make a profit prescribing blue dye!The same blue food dye that gives your Gatorade its turquoise tint and turns your tongue a peculiar shade of Read More posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:52 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Research News

• Doc about being a college kid in a chair to air on PBS stations

  Cody Unser is your average college student, who has Transverse Myelitis, a rare but often paralyzing -- and sometimes fatal -- spinal cord inflammation. She is a good friend of the Reeve Foundation, and a wonderful documentary about her life is now airing Read More posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:40 AM by gerthro | 0 Comments Filed Under: Success Stories, Events and Workshops