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Paralysed rats 'learn to walk'

Paralysed Rats Learned to Walk

Paralysed rats have been able to walk again when their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity, scientists have shown.

 

Ft. Hood suspect paralyzed

Ft. Hood suspect paralyzed

Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, charged with killing 13, has no sensation from the chest down, his lawyer says.

 

Lawyer: Fort Hood suspect paralyzed

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army Post in Texas a week ago, is paralyzed, his lawyer said Friday.

 

Physicist Stephen Hawking "comfortable" in hospital

Physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of "A Brief History of Time" who is almost completely paralyzed by motor neurone disease, was comfortable in hospital on Tuesday, his university said.

 

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