Outside America

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
The Daily Mail reports that RyanAir refused to help a disabled woman get on the plane. Airport personnel that were supposed to help also refused on grounds that it was unsafe and broke health laws. It is normal operating procedures to leave people at the gate that cannot get into [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
Boston.com has a story on how the disabled are handled in Russia. One would think that with all the westernization that this area of the world has gone through that disabilities would finally be addressed. Unfortunately you would be wrong. Even through there are laws that create quotas for businesses [...]

 By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
A woman that was recovering from a spinal cord injury in Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, UK had her teeth cleaned with hair remover instead of toothpaste. The woman was injured from a fall and was left a quadriplegic. A nurse that worked on the floor evidently grabbed the hair [...]

 
By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
News.com.au reports that a man who was driving his wheelchair to a friend’s house was pulled over by police. Drivers had to swerve out of the way as the man drove his wheelchair next to the road. A passing police officer noticed the man slumped on his wheelchair and ran [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
T-5 incomplete injury
NorthernNews.ca reports that a 87 year old woman died in her wheelchair when she became wrapped up in her seat belt. The belt wrapped itself around the woman’s throat and she died of suffocation. O’Connor Gate, the assistance residence the woman lived in could not understand what happened. [...]

By Greg George CEO Spinal Cord Resources Network T-5 incomplete injury The Weston Mercury reports that a 38 year old mother of three with osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalopathy (ME) and rheumatoid arthritis was tossed off the train because she was "too heavy". The woman is confined to a powered wheelchair and uses the train [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
T-5 incomplete injury
The Guardian reports on a new pain killer that is being developed from the venom of cone snails. The Conoco Project has already found a powerful local anesthetic. Several labs around the world are working to create a drug from the proteins of the venom that produce the pain [...]

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network
T-5 incomplete injury
The CBC reports that Toronto taxi drivers overcharge any time there is a disabled person who enters the cab. As an example, a disabled man called for a taxi to come to his house and drive 3 kilometers (about 1.5 miles). Upon seeing that the rider was disabled, [...]

Yahoo news has a story about a card that allows caregivers to travel for free when they are with the person they are helping. The New South Wales government came up with the card to help defray the cost of using public transportation to the disabled. Up to this point the disabled person had to [...]

By Greg George
CEO Spinal Cord Resources Network
T-5 incomplete
Canada.com is reporting that GlobeSpan AIrways must allow a man to travel with his powered wheelchair. Flyglobespan is an airline that opened up transportation from Canada to Ireland. A disabled man tried to purchase a ticket but the airline said that his wheelchair would not fit in the [...]