New Zealand will send a team comprising 30 athletes to the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The team is headed by Athens Gold medalists Tim Prendergast (training in UK) and Matt Slade (Auckland), both athletics...

Injected directly into the spinal cords of paralysed mice, a new material restores use of the animal's hind legs.

An engineered material that can be injected into damaged spinal cords could help prevent scars and encourage damaged...

The changes, effective from the 2008/09 income year, include:

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• The removal of the $1,890 rebate threshold on donations made by individuals
• The removal of the 5% deduction limit on...

CHICAGO -- A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged nerve fibres can't regenerate. The nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to grow again, but don't because...

A charity horse show to raise funds for spinal cord research is being held at the weekend in Waikato.

The brainchild of Waikato based international model Elizabeth Charleston, the Waikato Showing Championships will be in aid of The...

Nutritech is a New Zealand family owned business supplying animal nutrition and pasture/silage products to farmers, the animal feed industry and contractors.

With one New Zealander suffering from a life altering SCI every five days and...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in the United States have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damage to the nervous...

A pioneering technique that uses the body's nerves to bypass spinal injuries could help thousands of people to regain feeling, and possibly even the use of paralysed limbs, scientists say. Using similar principles to heart bypass surgery, where...