As you probably know, January marks our one-year anniversary as United Spinal Association. From all perspectives, it has been a great first year. Our membership grew by leaps and bounds, giving us the opportunity to serve an even greater number of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). We are still testing the waters with our […]

January 29, 2005, will mark our one-year anniversary of transitioning into our new name and expanded mission. As we look back over the past year, as well as our entire 57-year history and the series of events and continuity of service that have brought us to where we are today, the name James J. Peters […]

by Lori A. Wood
Writer, editor, wheelchair acrobat, public speaker, and juggler . . . Gary Karp wants to challenge the world’s view of disability as damage.
In July 1973, when he was 18, Gary Karp fell 25 feet out of a tree he was trying to clear after a storm in his […]

by Sara Lerman, MPH
In the last few months, the controversy over stem cell research has been brought into the spotlight by the presidential campaign and by the passing of Christopher Reeve, a leading advocate for increased funding of stem cell research. Most medical scientists say that stem cell research and therapy hold promise for […]

por María A. Reyes-Velarde, MD, MPH-AM
Hace cinco años, después de haber sido dada una diagnosis de probable esclerosis múltiple (EM), comencé a buscar información sobre la enfermedad en Español. Como doctora, estaba acostumbrada a la lectura en Inglés sobre la patología, el diagnóstico diferencial, los tratamientos disponibles y los resultados posibles, pero buscaba algo […]

by John M. Williams
Since the 2004 Election on November 2, a debate in the disability community has focused on this question: Did more people with disabilities vote for President George W. Bush than for Senator John Kerry? If you ask different people you will get different answers.
Advocates for people with disabilities tell […]

by Dominic Marinelli
United Spinal Association has updated a pamphlet that provides important fire safety information for persons with disabilities. Fire Safety for Wheelchair Users at Work and at Home was distributed to fire marshals from around the United States during their annual Prevention Advocacy Resources and Data Exchange (PARADE) conference held at the National […]

by Terry Moakley

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the parent organization of New York City Transit (NYCT), has published a new map of the NYCT subway system entitled “The Subway Map for Customers with Disabilities.” It can be ordered at no charge via United Spinal’s publications request line, 800-444-0120, or online at www.unitedspinal.org. […]

by Kate Hooks
“The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities, such as buying an item at the store, going to the movies, enjoying a meal at a local restaurant, exercising at the health club, […]

by Lori A. Wood

This is Part II of a two-part series on the ethics of euthanasia. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of United Spinal or its employees. This article, as well as last month’s article on Princeton philosophy professor Peter Singer, is intended […]