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NEWS ABOUT: wheelchair

wheelchair stories: 6 news summaries

 Paralyzed Rats Run in 
 Breakthrough Experiment 

Application for humans with spinal injuries not far off

Sep 21, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have made paralyzed rats run again by using a new technique that could one day have wheelchair-bound people walking, reports AFP. Rats, whose spinal cords had been severed, ran when scientists applied electrical charges and drugs. "In some cases they actually walked with more consistent locomotive patterns than... More »

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rats • experiments • spine • paralyze • paralysis • spinal cord • wheelchair • treadmill

(Newser) - Lovestruck in northern Germany, a 67-year-old pensioner traveled more than 125 miles in an arm-powered wheelchair to propose to the woman he loved, Der Spiegel reports. When she turned him down, he turned around for the 4-day journey home and stopped in a cornfield for food. But he couldn't get... More »

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elderly • Germany • wheelchair • marriage proposal

Disabled Identify With Heroes
at Comic-Con

'You have legs, you can become a warrior,' says fan at SD convention

Jul 25, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s no accident that some of Comic-Con's most popular heroes are X-Men’s wheelchair-bound professor and Daredevil’s blind avenger. Many of the San Diego convention’s 125,000 guests say they relate to the struggles of their favorite superheroes, the Los Angeles Times reports. “You feel like... More »

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James Cameron • disabled • San Diego • comics • wheelchair • avatar • X-Men • comic books

Toyota Rolls Out Mind-Controlled Wheelchair

Chair can translate thoughts into commands within milliseconds

Jun 30, 09 3:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Toyota has unveiled research on a mind-controlled wheelchair that can read its user's thoughts much faster and more accurately than any previous efforts, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The chair's interface reads brainwave activity and responds to imagined hand and foot movements within 125 milliseconds with up to 95% accuracy,... More »

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Toyota • mind • wheelchair • brain waves

Cheney Hurts Back, Will Cruise Inaugural in Wheelchair

VP was moving boxes into new home

Jan 20, 09 5:58 AM CST
(AP) - Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back while moving boxes and will be in a wheelchair for today's inauguration ceremony. The White House said that the outgoing vice president was helping move into his new home in McLean, Va., when he injured himself. Said Dana Perino, on her last... More »

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Dick Cheney • injury • inauguration • wheelchair

Deputy Charged for Dumping Quadriplegic

She turns herself
in to Fla. jail after thousands see video

Feb 16, 08 6:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A Florida sheriff’s deputy turned herself in today after dumping a quadriplegic from his wheelchair during a jailhouse booking last month, MSNBC reports. Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones was promptly released on $3,500 bail and will face a charge of felony abuse of a disabled person. She was already a... More »

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Florida • crime • abuse • felony • Tampa • bail • wheelchair

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