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Our Voice

You might be wondering why we are interviewing the founder of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, Fran Visco. As many of you know, we in the SCI community always hear the money refrain: that what we really need is “more money, more money, more money.” Well, cancer receives a lot more money than spinal cord injury, obviously. But what’s fascinating...

I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin last night and am preparing to join our advocates in the halls of the Capitol this morning. Thanks to some stellar intel work by our staff along with wheels-on-the-ground recon last week by long-time WI CAN colleague, John Martinson, we have identified the specific Senators who...

The next step is for the bill to get passed on the Senate floor. We thought this would be an easier task, now that the Assembly has passed the bill. But like every step of our advocacy work in Wisconsin thus far, it's going to take more effort than we had hoped...

Working with their colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, UCLA and Harvard, Anderson and Squair took on one of the holy grail challenges of SCI research: repairing an anatomically complete injury. They report substantial recovery of walking function in 27 of 30 animals, using a complicated series of steps to mimic...