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London to Paris bike ride for injured Sian
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 PE teacher tackles charity event just four years after breaking backA PE teacher from Llanfair Caereinion will cycle from London to Paris just four years after breaking her back.
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2004 Sian Harries, 25, came within millimetres of being paralysed for
life when she suffered a tragic accident on a trip to Australia,
however just four years on she will now complete a 300-mile journey
from London to Paris to raise funds for Spinal Research UK.
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Alberta researcher gets $50,000 grant to help paralyzed patients walk
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A University of Alberta researcher who developed a device to help
patients with spinal cord injuries walk was awarded a $50,000
grant on Wednesday.
Dr. Dick Stein was awarded the grant, from a foundation created by
Toronto journalist Barbara Turnbull, at a ceremony in Edmonton.
Turnbull was left a quadriplegic at age 18 after she was shot during a
convenience store robbery.
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Injury fund fees shifted to all drivers
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State Senators gave a boost Wednesday to efforts to put Indiana at
the forefront of medical research to treat patients with spinal cord
and brain injuries.
Senators approved a plan to keep the research funding flowing while
also replacing a controversial fee that motorcycle owners had
complained was unfair.
By a vote of 47-0, the Senate approved the plan, House Bill 1318.
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U of L researchers get federal grants for spinal cord research
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Elizabeth Fust was part of a crowd Monday honoring University of
Louisville researchers who won $4.7 million in federal grants. For
Fust, the ceremony was more personal, knowing she might someday benefit
from the search for new spinal cord injury treatments. Fust,
paralyzed from the waist down since a spinal cord stroke two years ago,
said the highly sought grants show cutting-edge research is taking
place in her hometown. "I'm thrilled that I don't have to go
somewhere else in the country ... to see this science come to
fruition," the 40-year-old lawyer said in an interview.
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Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Awards Nearly $2 Million in Individual Research Grants
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Foundation Continues Research Initiatives in Search of a Cure and Therapies for Paralysis
The Christopher and Dana Reeve
Foundation (CDRF), which is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding
innovative research and improving the quality of life for people living with
paralysis through grants, information and advocacy, today announced it has
awarded $1,996,745 million to 16 laboratories through its Individual Research
Grants Program. At the forefront of molecular and cellular studies, CDRF's
Individual Research Grant Program is the Foundation's largest, most
comprehensive research initiative. The grants awarded today represent an
overall $77 million commitment to research by the Foundation since 1982.
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House would shift burden of brain-injury research
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The House passed a bill yesterday that will
shift the cost of research for spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries
to all Hoosier vehicle owners -- not just those who have motorcycles.
House Bill 1318 eliminates a controversial
$10 fee that lawmakers added to motorcycle registrations last year, a
move that irritated bikers across the state.
Rep. Dan Leonard, R-Huntington, questioned Rep. Carolene Mays,
D-Indianapolis, yesterday about her bill that would impose a 50-cent
fee on all vehicle registrations to pay for research into brain and
spinal cord injuries.
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Paralyzed woman helps raise funds for research
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A Cumberland woman who sustained a paralyzing spinal cord injury six
years ago is using her abilities to help deal with her disability.
Jyl and Donnie Waters founded the Spinal Cord
Organization for Research and Enrichment following Jyl's 2002 fall from
a forklift. The Iowa-based organization recently donated $20,000 to the
International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at the Kennedy Krieger
Institute in Baltimore, Md.
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NFL Resumes Funding of the Miami Project
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 NFL Hands Grant to Miami Project, Which Helped Bills' Kevin Everett Recover From Spinal Injury
The NFL has awarded a $113,000 grant to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, which played a role in Bills tight end Kevin Everett's recovery from a serious spinal cord injury.
The Miami Project, the world's largest spinal cord injury research center, will use the grant money to further its cutting-edge research into hypothermic therapy, spokesman Scott Roy said Tuesday. Roy added the Miami Project will continue applying for further league grants.
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FantasyRacer.com and David Bailey Team Up
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David Bailey and FRC to Support Spinal Cord Injury Research and Will Give Away an RM-Z450 FantasyRacer.com and Supercross Champion David Bailey have teamed up to provide financial support to UC Irvine’s Reeve-Irvine Research Center for spinal cord injury research. The 2008 Fantasy Supercross League will donate a portion of each entry to the research center and give away a new RM-Z450 after the final round of the AMA Supercross Series.
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Christopher Reeve Honored as Heroes' Hero by CNN
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 Christopher Reeve will be honored as the first-ever recipient of CNN’s HEROES’ HERO award as part of CNN HEROES: An All-Star Tribute.
Hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour, and
broadcast live around the world on CNN, CNN International, and CNN en
Espanol.
As a culmination of CNN’s year long initiative honoring ordinary people doing extraordinary things, they are giving the Heroes’ Hero
award to an individual who dedicated his or her life to helping others,
and whose very name has become synonymous with their cause.
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