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  • Young caregivers 'exist in the shadows,' offer crucial help

    May 31, 2022 - 7:44 AM

    PLANO, Texas (AP) — Ronan Kotiya leans over his father, fingers wrapped around a plastic tube he’s about to slide from a tracheostomy hole in dad’s neck.

  • Young caregivers 'exist in the shadows,' offer crucial help

    May 31, 2022 - 7:42 AM

    PLANO, Texas (AP) — Ronan Kotiya leans over his father, fingers wrapped around a plastic tube he’s about to slide from a tracheostomy hole in dad’s neck.

  • Hollywood's diversity push snubs actors with disabilities

    April 04, 2018 - 1:18 AM

    LOS ANGELES - Eileen Grubba was working alongside other actors on a TV commercial when she realized the director's eye was caught by her uneven gait. He started positioning her out of shots — and then it got worse.

  • Advocates say Canada needs national pain strategy to provide care, lower costs

    March 19, 2018 - 12:18 PM

    VANCOUVER - When Jeanine McDonald heard a pop in her low back as she bent down to pick up a lid from a box, she had no idea she'd ruptured a disc and would wait three months for surgery. Then a second disc ruptured and left her in more debilitating chronic pain, the kind that millions of Canadians live with daily.

  • Endurance athlete overcomes paralysis to race, coach again

    July 21, 2017 - 11:59 AM

    SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - When Beth Sanden crashed her bike after speeding over a wet, broken patch of asphalt 15 years ago, the elite endurance athlete was left paralyzed. She figured her competition days were over, along with her career as a personal trainer and triathlon coach.

  • Endurance athlete overcomes paralysis to race, coach again

    July 21, 2017 - 7:30 AM

    SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - When Beth Sanden crashed her bike after speeding over a wet, broken patch of asphalt 15 years ago, the elite endurance athlete was left paralyzed. She figured her competition days were over, along with her career as a personal trainer and triathlon coach.

  • Consumer show offers glimpse of future gadgets: some revolutionary, some quirky, some huh?

    January 09, 2015 - 7:02 PM

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Sure, the International CES show was chock full of connected cars, smart home sensors, music gear and computer gadgets, as you'd expect. There were even drones buzzing the 160,000-plus people that tromped across the 2.2 million square feet of exhibit space along the Las Vegas Strip. But if you didn't get to see some of these goodies, well, you just haven't lived.

  • Wearable robots that help paralyzed people walk are getting lighter and more portable

    May 09, 2013 - 12:20 AM

    CHICAGO - When Michael Gore stands, it's a triumph of science and engineering. Eleven years ago, Gore was paralyzed from the waist down in a workplace accident, yet he rises from his wheelchair to his full 6-foot-2-inches and walks across the room with help from a lightweight wearable robot.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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