Topic: Cerebral Palsy

More freedom for Robert Latimer

Robert Latimer, the Wilkie-area farmer serving a life sentence for killing his daughter, will receive another pass to leave a half-way house and to...
It's a dream come true for a Rockland County teenager - a wheelchair-bound boy with a passion for football.. . It's extraordinary how a simple act...
While preterm birth is a known risk factor for cerebral palsy, an examination of data for infants born at term or later finds that compared with...

United Cerebral Palsy gets new leader

The former chief executive officer of the United Cerebral Palsy chapter in St. Louis will be the new leader for the East Central Florida chapter....

Funds needed for special kids

THE Cerebral Palsy (Spastic) Children's Association of Penang (SCAP) is in need of RM64,000 to set up a pre-vocational training unit to help these...
Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing...

Early and late birth ups cerebral palsy risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Full-term babies born a bit on the early or late side are at higher risk of cerebral palsy, according to a new study in nearly 1.7 million Norwegian children."It is important to emphasize that the absolute ...

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Feel-good Canadians make charity donations

Canadian medallists Alexandre Bilodeau and Jennifer Heil said Wednesday they were each making charity donations of 25,000 Canadian dollars, and encouraged other Olympic athletes to follow their lead.Bilodeau, who won the host nation's first ever gold on h

Device shows promise to treat cerebral palsy type

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Zapping the brain with a mild electrical current appears to help patients with a difficult-to-treat form of cerebral palsy, French researchers said on Wednesday.Patients in the study were implanted with pacemaker-like devices known as