Subject: "Signatures for Spinal Cord Research"
From: ssscr@vcu.edu
Date: 01/19/2009 2:26 AM

Hello everyone,
 
I am passing along a petition that may be of interest. The body
of the petition is as follows:
 
2.5 million people worldwide are victims of a spinal cord injury,
with well over 130,000 new cases added every year.
 
Loss of the use of limbs, control of bowel/bladder, lack of sexual
function, the inability to breathe plus untreatable neuropathic
pain, spasticity and the threat of infection, make life a battle
for survival. Not just a physical and psychological battle, but
a financial battle too with a lifetime estimate between $438,000
 - $1,350,000 per individual depending on level of injury.
 
Enough Waiting
Science is ready to move this mountain of paralysis.  It has 
proven that a damaged cord can be regenerated. But without 
sufficient funding it cannot deliver a cure.  
 
Action
We need you to urge your President, your Government leaders 
and their respective health legislators to fund spinal cord 
research and make paralysis a curable condition.
 
If you would like to sign, you may do so here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/signatures-for-spinal-cord-research 

Katelyn Procci
President
Student Society for Stem Cell Research, VCU Chapter
http://www.studentorg.vcu.edu/ssscr/