Category Archives: Wheelchair News

Breaking News A gunman armed with an assault rifle entered a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport today, killed a TSA agent, penetrated deep into the terminal before he was captured by police. Six other people were injured in the incident. The shooting sent hundreds of passengers streaming out of the terminal with many fleeing […]

Google Inc. (GOOG:US), Red Hat Inc. (RHT:US), Oracle Corp. (ORCL:US) and other technology companies are contributing dozens of computer engineers and programmers to help the Obama administration fix the U.S. health-insurance exchange website. Most importantly, the help is arriving as the government’s main site for medical coverage remains plagued by repeated outages a month after its October 1st debut. Michael Dickerson, […]

Standing at 8ft 3 (2m51), Sultan Kosen is the world’s tallest man and a celebrity in his home country of Turkey. He married his 5ft 8 (1.75m) wife, Marve Dibo in a wedding ceremony attended by Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul and prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kosen has size 28 feet and had to have […]

While historians find that primitive societies had sports, it has not been until recently that wheelchair sports have emerged. Wheelchair sports have evolved because they meet some of the basic needs of the disabled and because wheelchair sports are assumed to play an important role in the rehabilitation process. Wheelchair sports were initiated in the […]

The wheelchair that had been Lucy Spruill’s friend for 30 years helping her achieve a master’s degree, a career, a home and a family turned against her. Spruill learned three years ago at age 50 that she gradually had torn the tendons in both shoulders in part because she pushed improperly. “I couldn’t raise my hands to comb my […]

  Trailer for the classic horror film Wheelchair Werewolf. Written and directed by Joe Avella Music by Jon Steinmeier

“We’re so busy growing up we sometimes we forget that they are also growing old.” That’s the tagline of See Your Folks, a new website that uses life expectancy data from the World Health Organization to determine how many visits one will get in with their parents before they pass. That’s right: The “they” in question […]

Six years ago, a twenty-one-year-old man from Michigan, received national media coverage by escaping an extreme high-speed highway accident, when his power wheelchair got jammed in the front of a semi-truck. He survived the incident but incited a question for many people, are wheelchair users travelling safe in their vehicle? Millions of people who remain […]

An array of issues surrounding the recently launched websites for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act have rendered them largely unavailable during the last week, and a lack of funding might not be to blame. With the official launch of so-called Obamacare last Tuesday, millions of Americans flocked instantly to brand new Web portals where […]