Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans have damaged brain cells from Alzheimer's, and a million people each year suffer tissue damage from heart attacks.

No one doubts that those people — and millions more who suffer from Parkinson's, diabetes or stroke — would pay big money to restore their quality of life. But that powerful profit motive hasn't pushed stem-cell research quickly toward to development of new treatments.

REW JOHNS, rugby league's greatest drawcard, will put his playing future on the line tonight when he takes the field for the first time since suffering a career-threatening neck injury.

An otherwise meaningless trial between Newcastle and North Queensland up in Mackay has taken on unprecedented importance as the code sweats on the game's best player coming through the first real test of his injury unscathed.

Andrews Air Force Base Saturday evening, February 28, 2004

Washington, DC – Two American soldiers who recently returned to the United States after completing their tours of duty in Iraq will reunite Saturday evening, February 28, 2004, with 12 year old Ma’rwa Ahteemi as she lands at Andrews Air Force Base. Ma’rwa was a patient they cared for after she sustained a spinal cord injury in late November 2003, in an accidental US mortar attack on her home in the Sunni Triangle north of Baghdad.

Shepherd Center, an Atlanta hospital specializing in care for patients with catastrophic injuries and illnesses, plans a $48 million expansion that will nearly double the size of the Buckhead facility.

The Shepherd expansion joins a recent building boom among metro Atlanta hospitals as the area's population continues to surge.

Ron Roskos literally fell into his job as head of the Utah Brain Injury Association.

Roskos was walking across the parking lot to work as an operations manager one day when he slipped on a patch of ice. He's not sure how long he lay between two cars, unconscious, but that moment 13 years ago was the curtain dividing his life dramatically into "before" and "after."

Spinal Cord Injury Can Result In Significant Psychological And Social Problems

Research from the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, has confirmed for the first time that a high proportion of New Zealanders with severe spinal cord injury and subsequent chronic pain experience ongoing psychological and social problems because of their condition.

Three other Bahamians passengers injured

Twenty four year old Tavares Brown, a Bahamian student at Florida A&M University (FAMU) was paralyzed on Saturday, after the van that he was riding in overturned.

Legislature debates how to best fix $401 million funding shortfall

MADISON — Thousands of jobs and services for the elderly, disabled and poor are at risk unless the Legislature and Gov. Jim Doyle can agree on a plan to fix a $401 million Medicaid funding shortfall, advocacy group representatives said Tuesday.

Florida A&M students and alumni rallied Monday in support of a student who was paralyzed and two fellow performers who remain hospitalized after their van overturned en route to Pensacola's downtown Mardi Gras parade last weekend.

Students in Tallahassee are organizing prayer vigils in dorms and asking how to send cards, flowers and other gifts, said Patricia Green Powell, vice president of student affairs.