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Two University of Illinois professors are studying the use of sensors in combat helmets to potentially reduce the effects of traumatic brain injury in military personnel. The sensors, which are smaller than a pinhead, would continuously monitor brain activity and detect any change due to explosions, physical contact or other trauma. The sensors would record changes in the brain, such as blood oxygen levels and heart rates, and wireless technology would transmit the data to an off-site computer.
Dr. Margaret Elaine Ayers, Psychoneurophysiologist, was one of the first three pioneers in the field of Neurofeedback. She had been in full-time private practice in Beverly Hills since 1975 and was internationally renowned for her work with brain injury and in bringing patients out of coma, as well as in many other clinical applications of Neurofeedback.
Survivors of traumatic brain injury and their families must be realistic, said Harriet Zeiner, Ph.D. "You will never be the way you were before. But you can be better with training," she said.
Marine Cpl. Andrew E. Love slams a ball against the wall. He's balanced on one leg, working to steady his life -- scrambled when, just two weeks into his Iraq tour, the shock of a roadside explosion and the force of his head hitting a Humvee windscreen slammed his brain against his skull.
It's well known that the left and right sides of the brain differ in many animal species and this is thought to influence cognitive performance and social behaviour. For instance, in humans, the left half of the brain is concerned with language processing whereas the right side is better at comprehending musical melody.
Three years ago Terri Schiavo was removed from life support in Pinellas Park. Schiavo died March 31, 2005, at age 41, almost two weeks from the time her feeding tube was removed after a seven-year court battle between Schiavo's husband, Michael, and her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
Biologists have just confirmed what poets have known for centuries: eyes really are windows of the soul--or at least of the brain. In a new study Harvard researchers describe the development of gene probe eye drops that--for the first time--make it possible to monitor and detect tissue repair in the brain of living organisms using MRI. Current methods involve a risky, invasive, and relatively slow process of penetrating the skull to extract tissue samples and then examining those samples in a laboratory.
As people age, their brains pay the price
- inflammation goes up, levels of certain neurotransmitters go down, and the result is a plethora of ailments ranging from memory impairment and depression to
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But in a long-term study with implications to treat these and other conditions, researchers have found that an experimental drug, taken chronically, has the ability to stem the effects of aging in the rat brain.
Smokers with a brain aneurysm who are treated with coil embolization are more likely than other patients to develop another aneurysm, according to a U.S. study.
On the heels of the nation's largest event dedicated to the epilepsy community, the National Walk for Epilepsy, advocates have announced their recommendations in response to a new national survey uncovering key challenges facing the epilepsy community. Challenges include gaps in patient-physician communication around medication-related side effects and low public awareness of epilepsy.
Leadership from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology released the following statement in response to the Thursday announcement of a Food and Drug Administration investigation into Singulair.
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
The increasingly competitive search for employment is not a level playing field.
Some job seekers have more barriers than others, making them less attractive hires to businesses.
This week's expert: J. Michael Baucom suffered a traumatic brain injury 13 years ago due to a car accident. To connect with others who have brain injuries, Baucom started a support group. Baucom works at Price Cutter.
The Tasmanian Opposition is urging the State Government to invest in a new housing plan for people with brain injuries. The brain injury support group, HOPES, says a lack of suitable accommodation means sufferers are often left in acute care hospital beds until they can be moved to aged care facilities or group homes.
Commenting on the announcement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, of the entitlement rates for the new Employment Support Allowance, Child Poverty Action Group's Head of Policy, Paul Dornan, said: "Ministers gave their word in Parliament that the new benefit would be higher. Pinning back the headline rate to the current level may leave them technically in the right, but morally in the wrong."
THE Constitutional Court last week ordered the Eastern Cape welfare MEC to pay a disabled woman whose disability grant was terminated without notice for a period of three years.
"We missed you," Yankees coach Michelle Fowler told returning player Kim Chapman, a 19-year-old sophomore at North Greenville and a "wheelie," in Miracle League terminology.
After experiencing her first epileptic seizure as a toddler, 13-year-old Kelsey Dollar now feels she has been given her life back, thanks to brain surgery and her own personal courage that has put her on a national stage.
Curtis Parks leans on his crutch and grips the bat with his free hand. After four years of experience in the Slocomb city league, Curtis now has a baseball league of his own, specifically tailored to his abilities.
He's one of 80 players who belong to Dothan's new Miracle League.
District of Columbia education officials have abandoned an elaborate, multimillion-dollar computer database that was supposed to help it tackle its special education crisis.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has 350 students that identify themselves as students with disabilities. Sixty-one percent of them are students with learning disabilities, but a significant amount are visually or hearing impaired or have limited mobility.
Funding shortages and a large demand for Florida's Medicaid waiver programs have left thousands of people with disabilities in limbo, waiting on much needed services from the state. As of Oct. 1, 2007, 15,912 people with disabilities were on the waiting list for services, according to Florida's Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
More than 20 United Nations departments, agencies, programmes, and funds have pledged their support to implementing a landmark treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, which opened for signature a year ago today.
The American Heart Association issued a warning Friday about an e-mail that promises to help you recognize the onset of a stroke. Turns out that email could cost you your life, officials said. The e-mail tells you to look for three specific symptoms. It claims a nurse encouraged the sender to circulate the email. The American Heart Association said the problem is the e-mail doesn't give all the signs of a stroke.
Researchers have identified a key player in the killing of brain cells after a stroke or a seizure. The protein asparagine endopeptidase (AEP) unleashes enzymes that break down brain cells' DNA, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.
In the earliest days of brain development, the brain's first cells - neuroepithelial stem cells - divide continuously, producing a population of cells that eventually evolves into the various cells of the fully formed brain.
When Jerry Cortinas lost his hand, he lost a part of his identity. While stationed in Afghanistan in December 2002, Cortinas, then a member of the U.S. Army's Special Forces, was preparing to go out on a mission. While showing another soldier how to use a grenade launcher, the device exploded, shattering most of his hand and wrist and embedding shrapnel in his face and arms.
It is the next step into the future for a local inventor who wants to give paraplegics a hand up and out of their wheelchairs. The Lifesuit 15 is the latest design from Monty Reed, who is still trying to spin science fiction into medical fact. VIDEO LINK.
Disaboom, the leading online community designed for people touched by disabilities, has begun to highlight the achievements and interesting stories of actors, as well as fictional characters, with disabilities.
Soldiers who lose limbs, sight or hearing to roadside blasts or training accidents deserve more cash and part-time soldiers should be treated the same as full-time soldiers, say MPs demanding changes to the military amputee and injury compensation program.
Legislation that would require group health plans to cover prosthetic care at the same level as other medical and surgical care has been introduced in Congress, but its prospect of passage is unclear, experts say. Under the Prosthetic Parity Act introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this month by Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., with bipartisan support, group health plans also could not "impose any annual or lifetime dollar limitation on benefits for prosthetic devices and components unless such limitation applies in the aggregate to all medical and surgical benefits."
A Senate bill to license and regulate those who make, fit and repair artificial limbs got caught in political crossfire on Friday in the House. Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Louisville, presented the legislation, which she said is necessary to protect the growing numbers of Kentuckians who rely on prosthetics.
Diabetes, the leading cause of heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic amputations, can also cause the lungs to deteriorate quicker than they normally do with age, a new study shows.
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema, now categorised as one disease, will be the third biggest killer of Australians behind heart disease and cancer over the next decade, specialists say.
An Indonesian child has tested positive for bird flu, pushing the country's total confirmed human cases to 130, a health ministry official said on Monday.
Disability Option - Ghana, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) would hold the second Disabled Sports Competition on April 5 at Mantse Abgona in Accra.
The achievement of the disabled people (OKU) in several fields especially in academics and sports recently, has proved that they were not merely waiting for help and sympathy, but actually longing for equal opportunity to live independently.
If you should see 34-year-old Michelle White around town, don't for a moment hesitate to ask about the circumstances that placed this attractive, vigorous woman in a motorized wheelchair.
Thousands of disabled people demonstrated in the streets of Paris to demand higher benefit payments, while separate protests unrolled across France against proposed pension reforms.
Greg Westlake, with two goals and an assist, Herve Lord, with a pair, Marc Dorion, Todd Nicholson, Ray Grassi and Graeme Murray had the goals for Canada, the defending Paralympic champion which is seeking gold at this event for the first time since 2004.
Attendees were treated to an inspirational speech by Landon Turner, former NBA draft pick. Turner was a talented basketball player for Indiana University from 1978-1981. The All-American, who was paralyzed in an automobile accident in 1981, now tours the country to tell his story of perseverance and triumph.
It's 1901, and an 11-year-old boy, born without hands, is staring into the camera and holding a pencil in his toes. "I am learning to use the typewriter with my toes," Frank Gardello wrote. "I can play football, play on a little toy piano, and can ride a bicycle." Readers will be able to learn more about Gardello and hundreds of other disabled children like him next month, when Arcadia Publishing releases a 128-page volume called "Cotting School."
The mission statement says that the SCIL is "dedicated to expanding access to information and resources to help residents with disabilities of the East San Gabriel and West Pomona Valleys to increase their independence and enhance the quality of their lives." The goal to is allow clients to "exercise control over their own lives by eliminating attitudinal, physical, and communication barriers."
Greta Neimanas is racing in the Tucson Bicycle Classic on a lark. She was planning on coming to Tucson from her home at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., to train for this year's Paralympics. When she learned the three-day event was just a day or two after she had planned to leave, she changed her schedule.
In the beginning, it could resemble a demolition derby, the sound of steel ramming into steel being commonplace. After all, you had a group of people who didn't know a do-si-do from a promenade and here they were trying to square dance in wheelchairs.
If you should see Michelle White around town, don't for a moment hesitate to ask about the circumstances that placed the vigorous 34-year-old woman in a motorized wheelchair. White won't think you rude and may even hand you a copy of her illustrated children's book, which explains that an accident left her paralyzed from the chest down with limited movement in her arms and wrists.
Parker Rauch has become a messenger of good will around the world, despite a bit of culture shock. He has journeyed to China, calling it a "stretching, eye-opening experience for me - a foreign land, a language I
didn't understand." Rauch retro-fits, rebuilds and customizes used wheelchairs for a needy population.
Faster, higher, stronger
- in the collective mourning for the Indian hockey team's failure to qualify for the Olympics, no
one's heard of one gutsy woman from Ahmednagar near Pune who perhaps best symbolises what the Games stand for.
She's Deepa Mallick, 39, mother of two, a spastic paraplegic, with no movement in her body the third shirt button down, who is set to become the first woman to represent India in the Paralympic Games to be held in Beijing.
his is 45-year-old Susan Mattson. She's worked for over 27 years at Basic American Foods in Shelly. Susan's survived two aneurysms and several seizures. She's been turned down for Social Security disability three times now and has filed for a federal judge to hear her appeal.
EMPOWERING people with disabilities through the national disability policy is the theme for this year’s National Disability Day which was staged at the Sir John Guise stadium last Friday.
DAMIEN de Jager laughs and smiles as Phumeza Xingashe, his class tutor, holds him upright. He was born with cerebral palsy four years ago. The 21 children at the Canaan Care Centre in Belgravia all suffer from severe or profound mental and/or physical disability.
It's hard to believe now, but the basement where Jon Zilles lived for five years wasn't all that bad. But the basement soon became something else to Zilles: The Dungeon. So he applied for a little-known state program that could grant him more freedom. It was a shot in the dark, but it was his shot at liberation. The Independent Care Waiver Program was started in the early 1990s to free Georgians with severe disabilities from nursing homes. As its popularity grew, so did a waiting list for placements, now 129 long.
Ogden resident Elsha Stockseth was born with muscular dystrophy and confined to a wheelchiar. But that doesn't stop her from expressing herself through art. Fox 13 Photojournalist Sebastian Nye shows us "The Little Girl that Could," in this look "Through the Lens.
THE first public debate to examine one of the most controversial Bills currently passing through the UK Houses of Parliament will be held next month. Deaf kids: Who decides? will investigate the implications of proposals to make it illegal for parents undergoing embryo screening to choose an embryo with an abnormality if healthy embryos exist. Clause 14(4)(9) has been added to the Bill to prevent the selection of embryos with the genes for deafness.
A man accused of stealing more than $1 million from the Colorado Medicaid system has accepted a plea agreement that requires him to pay more than $1 million in restitution. Daniel Crispin Arnold, 51, pleaded guilty to racketeering, two theft counts and forgery, state Attorney General John Suthers said Sunday. A grand jury initially had handed up an indictment with 49 counts.
Transportation providers in Texas were awarded $19.1 million Thursday by the Texas Department of Transportation to support transit cost for the elderly and the disabled.
A new Web site wants to be the online gathering spot for disabled job seekers. AccessibleEmployment.org is a national job board that matches disabled workers with employers looking to diversify their staffs.
Ajay Lalloo, inspired by his grandfather's disability, exploited a gap in the cell phone market some 12 years ago to become one of South Africa's true entrepreneurial gems. Using what is called an open source phone, Mr Lalloo's idea involved creating a platform by which computer programmes are uploaded on to a cell phone allowing a person to operate the phone almost entirely using voice recognition. For mute cell phone users, he has designed a technology that speaks on behalf of the person, using a typed message which is then converted into an audible voice on the phone.
Tasmania's Metro bus network has adopted a policy of allowing disability carers to travel free. The company has started accepting State Government-issued Companion Cards, which are carried by people with disabilities who need permanent carers.
As a baby, Austin Pope seemed to be developing normally -- even at an advanced pace, saying 75 words at 18 months.
But a month after getting five vaccines in one day, an unusually high number at the time, Austin began regressing, said his mother, Janet Pope of Crestwood.
Leslie Bridger's life has been driven by unexpected synchronicity. One morning in June 2005, Bridger was on her bike,
barreling down Pottery Rd., a long, steep hill in east-end Toronto. She hit a pothole, flipped over her handlebars and landed on her head. Bridger wasn't breathing. Barely alive, in a deep coma, she was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital. Her doctors expected her either to succumb to her devastating brain injuries or be left debilitated.
In a South Shore grocery store or coffee shop, or out shopping for shoes, Tanya Gludau goes about her business as anyone would. Like many harried shoppers, the South Lake Tahoe woman has a mission, gets what she wants and leaves. To those around her, Gludau perceives herself as out of sight and out of mind. But she knows she's really not: In her periphery, she notes the eyes of other shoppers. They're either curiously transfixed - especially if they are the eyes of children - or they look, shift and dart away. SLIDE SHOW.
We hear a lot of stories about soldiers in Iraq suffering traumatic brain injuries, or TBI. But it's not often you hear about it close to home. For a West Chester couple, their horrific experience with TBI came just months after they moved here from Chicago.
"It's like the Bible, there's BC and AD. It's before the accident and after the accident. Before is not much memory. Seems like only memories after the accident. It's been a whole different life," said Jim Shank.
This Tuesday will be another big day for Army Specialst Michael Hauser. That's when the Cheektowaga native will undergo surgery, as he continues to battle back from a serious head injury. video link.
As dawn broke over Baghdad in the early hours of March 20, 2003, U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Nichols was on the outskirts of the city, driving a Humvee in a 3rd Infantry division convoy, on his way to war. Three weeks into combat, Nichols' commanding officer and four other soldiers were killed after being ambushed by insurgents. Nichols was "blown" off the roof of a two-story building while on sniper watch in Baghdad. For seven months, Nichols fought in Iraq, driving a Humvee through dangerous territory, never sure when or where he'd be under attack.
Concerned by a lack of treatment and service options for brain injury survivors, more than one hundred of the most respected military and civilian leaders in brain injury treatment convened recently to address the crisis of brain injury in America. The resulting report, "Barriers and Recommendations: Addressing the Challenge of Americans with Brain Injury," demands major reforms within the military and civilian sectors. The public release of this consensus takes a hard-hitting look at available medical care, exposing the grim realities facing Americans with brain injury.
Imagine buying tickets to a sporting event and arriving at the stadium to find out you cannot get to or fit into your seat. People in wheelchairs have dealt with this problem for ages, often opting out of attending public events. A recent agreement between Novi-based Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America and the University of Michigan will change things however, and make more seats available at Michigan Stadium, better known as the Big House, throughout the course of the next two years.
Conference Archives, Inc. (CAI) releases Stroke Science OnDemand 2008 for those looking to keep abreast of the latest advancements in the treatment, prevention and outcomes of cerebrovascular disease and stroke.
Brain injury survivors face discrimination and prejudice in society, according to the results of a survey commissioned by Headway - the brain injury association.
A study showing the rapid weakening of unused breathing muscles during mechanical respiration could lead to improved survival for people who are put on ventilators in intensive care units, researchers say.
A sophisticated imaging technique can detect the changes in blood flow in the brain that often herald the emergence of highly malignant brain tumors, researchers report.
Scientists have identified a key player in the killing of brain cells after a stroke or a seizure. The protein asparagine endopeptidase (AEP) unleashes enzymes that break down brain cells' DNA, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have found.
Sarah Storey took overall honours in a special event as Paralympic stars broke three world records at the World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester.
A study has found only 16% of the 352,082 Australians who filled a prescription for asthma preventer medications for the first time during the period July 2004 to June 2005, went on to use them regularly.
There are only so many disabled hockey players. So when the Hornets Youth Sled Hockey team takes to the ice, it's usually to compete against able-bodied players who have been given lightweight, maneuverable sleds of their own to even the terms.
Sustaining hope in the face of a chronic, debilitating illness such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) should be a goal of palliative care and can take many forms, representing a continuum from focusing on the self to concern for others, as described in a paper published in the April issue (Volume 8, Number 3) of Journal of Palliative Medicine (http://www.liebertpub.com/jpm), a peer-reviewed publication of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc (http://www.liebertpub.com/). The paper is available free online.
ytRx Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of human therapeutics, announced that Shi Chung Ng, Ph.D., CytRx's Senior Vice President of Research and Development, will present previously reported positive results of several animal stroke studies with the Company's lead molecular chaperone amplification drug candidate arimoclomol at the Sixth International Workshop on The Molecular Biology of Stress Responses being held at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand.
A stroke can have a major impact on every aspect of a person's life, including his or her job. New research shows that only about half of stroke survivors are able to return to work, and continuing disability and depression are major causes. Though people often associate strokes with old age -- in other words, retirees -- about 20% of strokes actually occur in people of working age, the study authors say. Because of the general aging of the population and an increase in stroke survival rates, the condition can have a noticeable impact on the workforce.
The University of Queensland's Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD) and NMHRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health (CCRE Spine) have combined resources to establish the site with the aim of providing evidence based information to consumers and practitioners about whiplash and its management.
Kevin Everett and Marc Buoniconti each suffered a severe spinal cord injury while making a tackle. The difference between them on Friday was the result of more than 20 years of research. Buoniconti has used a wheelchair since being paralyzed while playing football for The Citadel in 1985. Everett walked through the lobby of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis just about seven months after he crumpled face-down on the turf following a tackle in which his helmet struck another player's helmet and shoulder pad.
Meet 22-year-old David Hale. The once active, popular, rising high school baseball star is now confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down. Home is a nursing facility in Diamondhead. VIDEO LINK.
The United Spinal Junior Nets is ranked ninth in the country and is the state's only varsity team for wheelchair basketball. The players, who range in age from 13 to 18, will venture across the country this weekend to compete in a national competition in Seattle. VIDEO LINK.
Only three months after a shelf collapsed on Lonnie Hannah at his parents' business in Houston, fracturing two of his vertebrae and paralyzing the 20-year-old from the waist down, he decided to test out his wheelchair. On the tennis courts.
Those dogs wearing special harnesses following owners everywhere like an extra pair of limbs are not pampered pets but service animals performing what the disabled cannot do alone. Yet some businesses refuse entry to people with dogs. However, since 1992 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits privately owned business serving the public from discriminating against the disabled.
As a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor has always known more about brains than most people. But when a brain hemorrhage triggered her own stroke, she suddenly had a front-row seat on the deterioration of the brain. VIDEO LINK.
Harry Coates (51), of Ancaster Court, Ashby, fell unconscious after a diabetic hyperglycaemic fit and was on life support for two weeks. Now on the mend, his doctors say he needs urgent treatment at a specialist centre to aid his recovery, but health service provider North Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has refused it.
A 21-year-old who was declared brain dead at a Texas hospital was found to be alive some four hours later. Zack Dunlap opened his eyes within five days of receiving a severe head injury while riding an all-terrain vehicle without a helmet and walked out of a rehab center to return home 48 days after the November crash, NBC's "Today" reported Monday.
Senior forward Tom Pohl spoke for the first time yesterday since suffering a severe head injury in Minnesota's 3-2 double overtime win against Minnesota State on March 16.
An increased number of neuron "hubs" in the epileptic brain may be the root cause for the seizures that characterize the disorder, according to a UC Irvine study.
Unique human in vitro model (cell culture) research currently underway at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England is set to identify and develop therapies for the treatment of multiple tumours in the brain.
After 130 years of scientific debate, the role of eosinophils-a rare type of white blood cell commonly associated with allergy sufferers-is starting to become clearer as the result of studies by Mayo Clinic researchers in Scottsdale.
Unique human in vitro model (cell culture) research currently underway at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England is set to identify and develop therapies for the treatment of multiple tumours in the brain.
Glioblastomas are the most common and most malignant type of glioma. Healthcare professionals face many challenges in the treatment of glioblastoma as therapy remains largely palliative, and mean length of survival in patients is less than one year.
The Pittsburgh Neuroscience Society will host Brain Awareness Town Meeting: Head Injury and Your Brain from 7 to 9:00 p.m., Thursday, March 27, Langley Hall, Room A221, Fifth and Tennyson Avenues, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland. The event is free and open to the public.
Trustees for the government's two biggest benefit programs warned Tuesday that Social Security, the U.S. state pension system, and Medicare are facing "enormous challenges," with the threat to Medicare's solvency far more severe.
An increased number of neuron "hubs" in the epileptic brain may be the root cause for the seizures that characterize the disorder, according to a UC Irvine study.
Britain's Paralympic cycling hopefuls will compete in a special event as part of Thursday's Track World Championships programme at the Manchester Velodrome.
MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that in a pharmacokinetic clinical trial Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB) demonstrated lower systemic drug exposure when compared to the currently marketed conventional nebulized budesonide. UDB is MAP Pharmaceuticals' proprietary nebulized formulation of budesonide, currently in Phase 3 clinical development, for the potential treatment of pediatric asthma.
In the PHARMACI study (Pharmaceutical Care for Asthma Control Improvement), Els Mehuys (Ghent University, Belgium) and colleagues evaluated the impact of pharmacist advice on symptom control of adult asthma patients.
According to a new study, a special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can depict changes in blood volume in the brain that often precede cancerous transformation of brain tumors.
The City of Big Spring is not complying with the “Americans with Disabilities Act” in two areas.
That’s the conclusion from the Federal Highway Administration after looking into a claim.
When Cal State San Marcos professor Elizabeth Bigham gave birth to a baby girl with Down's Syndrome 22 years ago, she was unaware of the many hurdles she would face in the years ahead. It didn't take her long, though, to learn that it was extremely empowering to know where she could find help.
Rolla resident, Gary Stevens will be in Jefferson City at the Capitol today for the Disability Legislative Day Rally. Legislation is pending right now to take the reference to mentally retarded out of the name of the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
The Mandalay train station is still not ready to be used by disabled and handicapped commuters who have to depend on security guards to carry them over to platforms, despite promises by transport authorities to fix the station.
A half dozen students from Hixson high school spend part of their school day learning in a very different environment. The special needs students volunteer at Longhorn Steakhouse for nearly 5 hours a day, Monday through Friday. They're doing a little bit of everything to learn about the restaurant business.
Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi [stats] is joining other stroke survivors to push for more spending on stroke awareness programs. Bruschi stopped by the Massachusetts Statehouse today to meet with Gov. Deval Patrick and legislative leaders. He recalled waking up in the middle of the night with a headache just 10 days after the Patriots [team stats] won the Super Bowl in 2005.
CytRx Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of human therapeutics, today announced that Shi Chung Ng, Ph.D., CytRx’s Senior Vice President of Research and Development, will present previously reported positive results of several animal stroke studies with the Company’s lead molecular chaperone amplification drug candidate arimoclomol at the Sixth International Workshop on The Molecular Biology of Stress Responses being held at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand.
Researchers cured mice with a version of Parkinson's disease by treating them with brain cells made from clones of their own skin cells. The researchers employed nuclear transfer, which involves swapping genetic material from one individual into an egg cell belonging to another.
Biotech firm Mapreg has reported that the European Commission has granted its lead compound, MAP4343, orphan drug status for the treatment of spinal cord injury and has entered the compound in the European Community register of orphan drugs.
NT welcomed Mark Zupan, star of the award-winning documentary "Murderball" and captain of the United States Quad Rugby Team, for a screening of the film and a chance to connect to students.
A Savannah Man who was left as a paraplegic after a car accident is about to be discharged from the hospital but his wife says she has no way to care for him. VIDEO LINK.
Even if he survives a horrific head injury suffered in the crash of his tour bus, doctors treating Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira say he faces a long recovery and an uncertain future. Navaira, 45, known to his fans simply as Emilio, was behind the wheel of his tour bus before dawn Sunday following a weekend show when it slammed into an interchange barrier on a Houston-area freeway, propelling him through the windshield.
Anna Levis has been diabetic from the age of four. It has made the legal secretary from Dagenham 'very careful' about her health. For diabetics who don't look after themselves, the long-term risks are damage to the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and major arteries. One of the biggest dangers is losing a foot or leg to gangrene: diabetics are 15 times more likely to have an amputation because of the way the disease affects the circulation of blood to the extremities.
TANAH MERAH: It looked bad for Abdul Hadi Daud when he lost both arms in a freak accident at his workplace last month. The 53-year-old was the sole breadwinner for his family and was at his wits' end trying to figure out how he was going to provide for them. But things are looking up for him after the Social Security Organisation (Socso) came into the picture.
It looks like something out of a "Terminator" movie: A bionic hand powered by high-tech sensors that can clench keys, grip a steering wheel, punch telephone numbers and grab a doorknob. The newest technology in prosthetics is becoming a reality for people like Salvador Mora, a local amputee who, for the first time in nearly two years, is able to perform mundane tasks taken for granted by those with digital dexterity.
Patsy Brown helped people for 30 years as director of a CHEER senior center in Sussex County. On Aug. 20, 2004, everything changed. Her car ran off the road and hit a tree south of Georgetown, off Route 113. Her legs were broken. Soon, with infections spreading, she told the doctors to cut off her right leg.
In February 2002, when the Scottish lawyer Olivia Giles began to feel odd at work, she thought little of it. Her first concern was how she was going to deal with the pile of paper stacked up on her desk. Little did she know that, within hours, her illness would develop into something extreme that would alter her life for ever.
Stephen J. Ubl, president and CEO of AdvaMed, released the following statement after an announcement that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) had determined winning bid amounts and will be notifying winning suppliers tonight in its competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies.
A Dayton woman was the first patient in the US to receive a custom-made prosthetic iris Tuesday at the Cincinnati Eye Institute. Less than half an hour after surgery, Linda Norris was making plans to watch "Dancing With the Stars" with friends and family.
Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq are getting bionic replacement parts, and the new hi-tech artificial legs are available in Las Vegas. Dan Ramsey can relate to soldiers who have lost a limb. His own leg was blown off by a land mine in Vietnam -- an explosion that killed two other soldiers.
Raymond Miles has obstructive sleep apnea, a breathing disorder in which the airway closes repeatedly during sleep and cuts off oxygen to his lungs. He wakes up briefly (though he doesn't become conscious), sometimes many times an hour. The condition is no minor matter: It ups the risk of automobile accidents, heart disease, and stroke—not to mention the level of lethargy and sleepiness. After seeing numerous doctors and being tested several times, the 57-year-old from Oakland, Calif., is still gasping himself awake dozens of times each night. Meanwhile, Miles's wife, who also has sleep apnea, has been sleeping like a baby for the past three years.
Vapotherm Inc. is waging a comeback after revenue at the Stevensville respiratory device maker disappeared two years ago. The company's only product, an innovative machine that heats and moistens air to help patients breathe better, was still gaining market share during the summer of 2005 when disaster struck.
It may sound unthinkable - the idea of denying life support to some people in a public health disaster like an epidemic. But a new report says doctors, health care workers and the public need to start thinking about it.
One year ago, Mt. Hope High School senior Cory Sousa was placing his ice hockey skates away and oiling his baseball mitt - transitioning from his senior hockey season to his upcoming baseball season. But these days Sousa isn't playing hockey or baseball. Instead he's lying in a Rhode Island hospital bed, in a battle for survival.
The Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA), in conjunction with leading pulmonary hypertension specialists, has announced the launch of an educational campaign to raise awareness of the association between pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and stimulant use, particularly methamphetamine use.
Pollution from coal mining may have a negative impact on public health in mining communities, according to data analyzed in a West Virginia University research study. "Residents of coal-mining communities have long complained of impaired health," Michael Hendryx, Ph.D., associate director of the WVU Institute for Health Policy Research in WVU's Community Medicine department, said. "This study substantiates their claims. Those residents are at an increased risk of developing chronic heart, lung and kidney diseases."
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the only major cause of death that is currently on the increase. As there is no cure, continued research into the disease and its treatment options is required. Treatment of COPD is not straightforward, as there are many subtypes of the disease and we lack methods of identifying these and ways to measure progression of disease.
US officials on Tuesday officially opened a stockpile of equipment in Thailand designed to help Asian nations react rapidly to battle outbreaks of potentially deadly bird flu.
Recent pandemic influenza response exercises have helped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) improve its tools for making policy decisions quickly, according to senior CDC officials.
Intensive rice farming and large duck populations - not the number of chickens raised - may be the best predictors of where bird flu might develop in Southeast Asia, according to researchers reviewing outbreaks in Vietnam and Thailand.
After a 15-6 season, the wheelchair basketball team begins its offseason with the recent memory of falling one game short of the national championship game.
A construction accident almost a year and a half ago left a Lubbock man partially paralyzed. Douglas Settler now relies on a wheelchair to get around and to get to his classes at South Plains College. But thanks to the West Texas wind, Settler now needs your help.
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