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Designers roll out their latest lines: Chic wheelchairs
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 If you can't stand up, stand out. That
has been Marilyn Hamilton's motto ever since she was paralyzed from the
waist down in a hang-gliding accident almost 20 years ago. And in the
midst of New York's glitzy Fashion Week, one group of perseverant women
showed that they share her philosophy. With style.
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Rolling with style
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Fresno-made wheelchairs debut at special Fashion Week fundraiser.
 A group of specially designed wheelchairs built in Fresno rolled down a
New York fashion runway during the city's renowned Fashion Week as part
of a first-of-its kind fundraising event. The
Rolling with Style Gala held at Cipriani's in New York on Tuesday was
designed to celebrate the lives of women in wheelchairs and raise
awareness about paralyzed women's health issues and spinal cord injury
research.
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Woman of determination
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 Rita, who will be 40 years old this March, will graduate from
Northeastern Junior College this May with an associate’s degree
in sociology. She has already been accepted to the University of
Northern Colorado at Greeley, where she hopes to pursue both
bachelor’s and master’s degrees to become a school
counselor. She even received a guarantee of assistance for her room and
board at UNC from the Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation as
long as she stays a permanent resident of Sterling. It was a sort of
scholarship worth around $8,000. All the details seemed to be coming
together.
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Some Female Spinal Cord Patients With Amenorrhea May Still Conceive Children: Presented at AACE
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Many women who sustain permanent spinal cord injury and develop resulting transitory amenorrhea may still be able to conceive children, according to a poster presented here at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE).
"Amenorrhea has been proven to be stress-related, but women return to normal sexual function after transitory amenorrhea," said Ghasa Mahmood, MD, endocrinology fellow, Martin Luther King/Charles Drew University Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States, in a presentation on April 27th.
Of 128 women who sustained a spinal cord injury, 53 immediately developed amenorrhea, or a cessation of menstrual flow. Of those, 3 went into menopause, Mahmood said. The study was a retrospective analysis of patients in a cardiovascular risk study. All of the women who went into menopause were over 40 years of age at the time, she said.
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Unwavering Quadriplegic Becomes a Mom
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 As with many women, Michelle Carston of Westfield always knew she wanted to be a mom. After a 1993 diving accident, when doctors told her that she would never walk again, she took solace in knowing the injury would not prevent her from fulfilling her maternal instincts.
On Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005, at Florida Hospital, Michelle delivered a 5-pound, 13-ounce, healthy baby boy named Pierce.
“I couldn’t wait to become a new mom,” she said. “This is the first and the last, I believe.”
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How gender affects living with traumatic spinal cord injuries
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Although men and women who have suffered traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCIs) report comparable levels of psychological well-being, recent studies have found that older female SCI survivors experience aging differently from their male counterparts. For example, older women with SCI have higher incidences of pain, depression, and suicide than men, and are less likely to hold a job and have access to preventive healthcare. In a new study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) hope to shed light on these discrepancies.
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