Shepherd Center is a private, not-for profit, catastrophic care hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1975, the hospital is devoted to the medical care and rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain and other neuromuscular problems. - Source: Wikipedia
A Georgia woman who survived a rare fleshing-eating disease told Katie Couric on Tuesday that she doesn't take life for granted anymore.
Three months after a devastating on-field collision between University of Georgia outfielders Zach Cone and Johnathan Taylor left Taylor partially paralyzed, the two were side by side again on Saturday as draft picks of the Texas Rangers.
Geron Corp. has begun testing an embryonic-stem-cell treatment on a patient with spinal-cord injuries, marking the first time such a drug has been used on a human.
