New York — For veterans suffering from paralysis due to a spinal-cord injury (SCI), the inability to move a significant portion of their body is the obvious, immediate concern. Over the long-term, however, the extreme sedentary lifestyle caused by paralysis can lead to many secondary medical problems
Read more →By Sandra Basu WASHINGTON — Last fall, Tim Hemmes, a 30-year-old quadriplegic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was able to control an advanced mechanical arm using nothing but his brain signals. Hemmes, paralyzed seven years earlier after a motorcycle accident damaged his spinal cord,
Read more →Disabled National Veterans Foundation Prepares to Launch Scholarship Program to Help Veterans With Tuition Not Covered by the G.I. Bills (SFGate.com) — The program comes at a time when many men and women are waiting a year or more to receive Veterans Benefits available to disabled veterans
Read more →Disabled Veterans National Foundation Announces Grant to Help Combat-Wounded Veterans Receive Sports and Recreational Therapy $5,000 DVNF Grant Gives Wounded Veterans 2-Week Course. The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (www.dvnf.org), a non-profit veterans service organization that focuses on helping men and women who serve and return home
Read more →Down a long dirt road on the border of Duval and Clay counties, where the open air is clean and the sun just begins to peek through the clouds, is a farm that houses organic fruits, vegetables, livestock, honeybees and other commodities. But for Adam Burke, founder
Read more →By Rick Maze – Staff writer Posted : Tuesday Dec 6, 2011 16:51:29 EST A wireless medical device to restore function in paralyzed limbs has won federal approval after demonstrating that it does not interfere with military electronics. The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of the Alfred Mann
Read more →Care for Disabled Veterans would like to offer a new way to say “thank you” to veterans in the United States. No veteran should face the indignity of going without proper medical treatment, housing or other essentials, but that is the reality for thousands of American
Read more →The boom of fireworks is different from the roar of a bomb that blows off your legs. But on a recent July 4, they sounded pretty much the same to Josh Wells of Summit, a soldier who lost both his legs below the knees in Iraq four
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