Man, 82, to Get New Cane After Whack
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SEATTLE - An 82-year-old Seattle man whose walking stick was damaged when he struck a younger man who witnesses say had doused him with lighter fluid is getting a replacement cane from the Seattle Police Officers' Guild.  Gus Jones responded to the Jan.
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When Christopher Reeve suffered a near-fatal spinal injury after falling from a horse in 1995, things looked bleak. He wasn&#39;t expected to live, and even if he did, doctors agreed that the life he would have
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly.
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Helen Sellevaag knows her next fall could be fatal. At 97, she also understands her chances of falling have increased as she has gotten older, and the slightest misstep could lead to a life-threatening injury.
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CENTER MORICHES, N.Y. - A man expecting to find his recently deceased father's belongings opened a plastic bag sent to him by a funeral home and discovered an amputated human leg.
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NORTH VERNON, Ind. -- A 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry deer.
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The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg. Her injuries may help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
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Kevin Everett was transferred Friday to a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The old man will get another chance for the Carolina Panthers.
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The man who fell nearly 500 feet is now talking and may walk again, his doctors said.
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Kevin Everett slowly unbuttons his suit jacket and sits down. It hardly seems like a big deal, those three little buttons. For Everett, though, it is nothing short of amazing. Less than five months after the catastrophic collision that doctors said might leave him paralyzed Â or worse Â he is walking and slowly regaining full use of his hands.
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University of Virginia neurosurgeon John A. Jane recalled yesterday that Christopher Reeve didn&#39;t want to live immediately after a horse-riding accident in 1995 left him paralyzed from the neck down.
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HAVANA -- Cuban President Fidel Castro's advancing age -- and ultimately his mortality -- were brought home yesterday, a day after he fractured a knee and arm when he tripped and fell at a public event.
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A 77-year-old man who lost his eye after developing a rare cancer is given an acrylic replica which fits to his glasses.
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Retirees face a whopping medical bill in their golden years.
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One of four brothers diagnosed with a rare disease is re-admitted to hospital following a transplant.
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Recently our 67-year-old brick house was accosted by men armed with hydraulics. No one was seriously hurt, but our bank account took a good beating.