For more information on the US trauma system, trauma facilities in your area, and traumatic injuries please refer to the following websites. 1  American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. 2  Florida Department of Health Trauma Program.
With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. , who died as a teenager of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy, in 1884 while on a trip to Europe.
Stephen Hawking has a form of motor neurone disease which causes progressive weakness of muscles in the body. On his website Prof Hawking describes coxing and rowing during his time at Oxford University but gradually becoming more clumsy Photo: REUTERS. By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor. 7:34PM BST 20 Apr 2009.