Spina Bifida

Dorothy DeBolt dies at 89; adoption advocate raised 20 children

2013-03-12 00:00:00

It was a story Dorothy Atwood DeBolt enjoyed telling, one that any harried parent of young children might find somewhat familiar. The phone rang one day as the busy mother raced around her home, getting ready for an out-of-town trip and wrapping up...

Growing body parts and improving prosthetics

2012-09-13 00:00:00

Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is used to hearing his work described as science fiction. Way back in 1999, he and his team grew bladders in a lab and successfully implanted them in patients with...

'Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams' finds good company in Bob Dylan

2011-10-02 00:00:00

Singer and songwriter Holly Williams, the granddaughter of country music giant Hank Williams, knew something big was up when Bob Dylan approached her at a gig several years ago and handed her a handful of song lyrics he wanted her to peruse. "He didn't...

Florida woman uses Craigslist in search of a new kidney

2011-07-26 16:35:55

N.J. developmental centers brace for huge change

2013-05-20 01:34:02

With its imposing, Victorian-era buildings and leafy, college-like campus, the Vineland Developmental Center was in its time a state-of-the-art institution for treating young women with complex mental and emotional disorders. At its peak in the late...

Woman exposed to toxic water on Marine base making sure other 'Devil Dog pups' remembered

2013-05-18 05:39:10

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply "Baby Boy" or "Baby Girl," followed by a surname and a burial date. Like Blakely, many of those...

Portsmouth program integrates special-needs students

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Kids sat in clusters before circle time in classroom 12. They huddled two- and three-deep on beanbag chairs, sat cross-legged on the floor, and sprawled across a rug. Teacher Laura Rieg, in the middle of it all, turned to Uriah Myers, a boy on the...

'Ralph-A-Thon' to help beloved teacher, coach

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Many kids who grew up on the east side and in Riverwest know Ralph Acevedo as a bilingual teacher and coach who led them through playground games of soccer, baseball and basketball -- but also guided them into adulthood. Edward Bruske was a teen when he...

Kirby Norman honored during Shriners Spring Ceremonial

2013-05-15 12:14:02

When Kirby Norman walked into the Shriners Hospital April 4, 1979, with his two-year-old son in his arms and his wife by his side, he never imagined the difference it would make in his family's life. Norman, 59, of rural Erhard, joined the Birak...

Chicago doctors welcome Chinese girls with medical needs into their family

2013-05-14 00:00:00

An outraged Janet Agranoff watched in 1996 as "60 Minutes" aired a report about "dying rooms" in Chinese orphanages, where infants and toddlers — most of them girls — were left to starve. When the report ended, the obstetrician-turned-stay-at-...

'She changed our course'

2013-05-11 17:04:02

ElizaBeth Godwin-Kogelschatz didn't get a good look at Rhema in the delivery room. The newborn was lifted above the screen for the mother to see and "everything was normal for two more seconds." Then the surgeon saw the sac on the baby's back....

Half-Way There: Pushing Across America

2013-05-08 10:20:00

Half-way there. Ryan Chalmers, an all-around athlete, made it to Hutchinson, the half-way point in his trek across America. The difference between his cross-county trip and that of many others before him? He’s doing so in a wheelchair. Chalmers...

Sarah Bauer, who was born with spina bifida, checks on a newborn at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Bauer will graduate from Loyola's medical school in June.

2013-03-18 11:34:00

A poster showing 21st Century Easter Seals committee with Gustavo Vargas, the poster child for Easter Seal in 1990.

2012-02-06 00:00:00

Tatyana McFadden was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage. Due to a birth defect called spina bifida, she does not have the use of her legs and the orphanage did not provide her with a wheelchair.

2012-01-04 00:00:00