A WOMAN who broke her back last year is now training to run the distance of eight marathons in eight days.

Funded through a three-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, the drug to mitigate damage has already proven effective in mice at UCSF.

A new technology to prevent bed sores in patients confined to a bed or in wheelchairs is being tested in Alberta hospitals.

Electronic shorts that stimulate muscles in people with spinal cord injuries could help prevent painful and costly bedsores, researchers in Alberta say.

Some pet dachshunds, beagles and corgis with spinal cord injuries will undergo an experimental treatment that could, if proven effective, be used on people with similar injuries.

Ryan Gilbert, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.

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There's agreement about an increased number of H1N1 swine flu and other flu cases in Mexico this season, but while newspapers are warning of a worrisome rise in cases, federal and state officials say the number of cases is within the normal range and there is no cause for alarm.