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...surprising that nearly 500 N.F.L. players have been injured seriously enough to miss a game so far this season. What's perhaps more surprising is that there aren't more accidents like Dennis Byrd's. In the previous 15 years, only two pro players have suffered permanent spinal-cord injuries. (Diving holds the dubious distinction of being the most backbreaking sport...
...unable to move his hands or legs. With all the power of his 266 lbs. of hurtling flesh, Byrd had unintentionally rammed his helmeted head into the chest of his 275-lb. teammate Scott Mersereau. The impact crumpled a vertebra in Byrd's neck, crushing part of the underlying spinal cord as well as plunging dagger-like slivers of bone into the soft, vital nerve tissue...
...Spinal-cord injuries, which afflict 10,000 Americans each year, were until recently considered untreatable. But researchers have begun to unlock the secrets of nerve growth and regeneration, and are even talking, in very cautious tones, about the possibility of reversing paralysis. "There are potent new tools that could change the extreme statements often made by physicians, such as 'You'll never walk again,' " says Dr. Richard Bunge, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. "That may all change -- maybe not within this decade, but certainly within the next...
Miller, who was born hearing but became deaf at the age of 15 months from spinal meningitis, swam on the 1992 U.S Deaf Olympic Team...
About 2,500 babies are born in the U.S. each year with most of the brain missing or the spinal column incompletely closed. Reflecting recent studies, many doctors advise that women planning pregnancy consume 0.4 mg of folic acid daily -- about double their average intake -- by eating more leafy green vegetables, citrus fruits, beans and fortified cereals or by taking vitamin pills. But many pregnancies are unplanned, and women do not realize that they are expecting until it is too late for supplements to do much good. Before approving the recommendation, the FDA must weigh whether the B-fortified food...