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The White House is issuing a health advisory outlining protective measures for anyone who traveled on President Barack
Obama's trip to Mexico, after a member of the U.S. delegation came down with flu-like symptoms - and tests on that
staffers' family showed they are probably infected with the swine flu.
A swine-flu patient in Spain who hadn't traveled to Mexico may signal a new front of the outbreak, potentially heralding the first influenza pandemic in 41 years.
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday the world is at the brink of a pandemic, raising its threat level as the swine flu virus spread and killed the first person outside of Mexico, a toddler in Texas.
Mexico took even more drastic action to squelch a swine flu epidemic, ordering a suspension of private business activity and nonessential federal government activities, as the World Health Organization ratcheted up an alert, warning that "all of humanity" is threatened.
After a Mexican toddler being treated in Texas becomes the first in the U.S. to die of the infection, groups against illegal immigration cite uncontrolled borders as a public health threat.
Several state schools have shut down and a military base in has quarantined a few dozen Marines as officials try to stem a swine flu outbreak that has resulted in 14 confirmed cases in California.
A Mexican toddler who came to the United States with his family on a visit has died in Texas of the swine flu, Texas officials said, as President Obama recommended that schools with confirmed or suspected cases of the disease "strongly consider temporarily closing."
A 22-month-old child from Mexico who was taken to Houston, Texas, for medical treatment is the first confirmed U.S. fatality from swine flu, health authorities said Wednesday.
Tucked away in this small mountain village, off a dusty road flanked by pig farms, is where the earliest case of swine flu -- a virus spreading globally -- was confirmed.
As news of the swine flu situation develops, it is important for those with asthma or other respiratory conditions to be aware of the basic facts about influenza and how it is spread, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
Swine flu may have hit Western New York, with two possible cases in Chautauqua County. An undetermined number of cases also were being investigated in Monroe County, public health officials said Tuesday.
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said Wednesday it was working closely with the World Health Organization to make its Tamiflu drug available to patients following the outbreak of swine flu.
There are enough courses of medicine stockpiled in Singapore should an outbreak of swine flu occur here. Hospitals are also freeing up more beds as a precautionary measure should a flu pandemic hit.
Swine flu is spreading quickly throughout the world, but the rate of deaths from the illness has dropped, according to the latest Mexican government figures.
How do I know if it's swine flu? That's the obvious question people around the country are asking themselves the moment they experience a cough, sniffle or body ache.
Over 64 cases of the swine flu are confirmed in the U.S. and the government has declared a public health emergency. The swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease that normally affects pigs but can affect humans. The swine flu symptoms are exactly the same as that of the seasonal flu: coughing, aches, fever, runny nose and sometimes sore throat, nausea and vomiting.
In response to reported cases of swine flu in Mexico, the Academy's Foreign Secretary, Professor Robert Souhami FMedSci said 'The UK is recognised as one of the most prepared countries in the world for an influenza outbreak, however the situation in Mexico has shown just how important it is to continue research into infectious diseases.
As countries around the world ready themselves for the possibility of a global pandemic in the wake of increasing numbers of confirmed cases of people infected with a new strain of A/H1N1 influenza virus that is being described as swine flu, investigations digging deeper into the history and evidence surrounding the outbreak are coming up with more questions than answers. Is it swine flu? How did it start? How deadly is it?
New research published April 27 from the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust warns of a six-month time lag before effective vaccines can be manufactured in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak.
Experts say it is difficult to say at the moment. In Mexico infected people have died, while all have recovered in other countries. There are reports that symptoms of infected people outside Mexico are milder, compared to some cases inside Mexico.
NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), announced that it is developing
FluCide(TM), its flagship anti-influenza drug candidate, to work against all influenza types and subtypes. FluCide has been shown to be effective against both common influenza subtype H1N1, as well as two different variants of bird flu subtype H5N1.
Out of the blue, a novel influenza virus has emerged in Mexico. The virus seems to have been born from the combination of at least two pig viruses, that themselves carried gene segments that originated in viruses of other species such as birds or humans. The combination of elements from three species is called "triple
reassortment".
Although there have been no reported cases of swine flu in Missouri, Kit
Wagar, spokesperson for the Department of Health and Senior Services
(DHSS) said the state's Pandemic Plan has been activated.
3M Co. stepped up production of its N95 respirators, used mainly by industrial customers at manufacturing sites, in response to the swine flu outbreak.
It's the surest sign that an outbreak of illness or infection has grown serious: People on the street wearing face masks as they hurry to work, crowd into the subway or walk their dogs.
Laura Horning buckled up. But an old car, a bad crash and lousy luck left her with the kind of accident - and the kind of injury - typical of crash victims who don't. The seatbelt in her 1979 Bandit Trans Am ripped out of the car's floor after a head-on collision, and Horning was ejected from her vehicle, hitting her head 50 feet down the road.
Three years ago, local teen Heather Aucoin suffered devastating injuries as a result of a car accident that left her with not only scars and damage to her face and ankles, but more importantly, a mild traumatic brain injury.
News/Talk 92-3 KTAR's morning talk show host, Darrell Ankarlo, suffered a stage three concussion during a car crash a couple of weeks ago and he is still recovering. Ankarlo tried to return to his show,
"Ankarlo Mornings," not once -- but twice. Three weeks after the crash, he's still feeling effects of the concussion, saying he sometimes slurs his words a little bit.
He was once the champion of all heavyweights. Now Greg Page faces another round. After suffering a major blow to the head, Page was released from rehab today after four months of rehabilitation.
Scientists at The University of Nottingham are investigating whether stem cell markers could have a role to play in speeding up wound healing in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD).
Results of a new Mayo Clinic study support an association between anemia experienced early in life and the development of Parkinson's disease many years later. The findings will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Seattle on April 30, 2009.
ONE look at the effects of a bomb blast suggests that you'd have to be extremely lucky to emerge from one unscathed. If you were not burned by the explosion or blasted by shrapnel, the chances are you'd be hit by the shock wave.
New guidelines developed by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society show it's relatively safe for women with epilepsy to become pregnant, but caution must be taken, including avoiding one particular epilepsy drug that can cause birth defects.
The biopharmaceutical company Antisense Pharma GmbH has announced that the first patients with recurrent or refractory anaplastic astrocytoma have been enrolled in the pivotal Phase III clinical trial SAPPHIRE.
The United Hospital Fund wants to make you aware of a new resource, Next Steps In Care which provides information ot patients and family members regarding the important information necessary to make informed decisions when someone is about to be discharged from a hospital, nursing home or rehabilitation facility.
The death of Natasha Richardson has generated many inquiries at Mt. Sinai Hospital for a program addressing brain injury prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
A new analysis of clinical study data showed that, for patients who recently suffered a stroke or "mini stroke" but have no known coronary heart disease, treatment with
Lipitor(R) (atorvastatin calcium) 80 mg is cost-effective in the U.S. for reducing risk of additional cardiovascular events and recurrent stroke.
Predictors of atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) might offer physicians a better way to prevent stroke in blacks, according to a new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
With aging baby boomers, escalating rates of obesity and diabetes and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fueling demand, the University of Hartford announced Monday it will start a new master's program in orthotics and prosthetics.
Alex Lucaci was goalkeeper for Summit High School's varsity soccer team on Nov. 1, 2007, when he fell, landing on the back of his head and neck. Alex shared the story of the resulting concussion at a press conference held by the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey on March 26 at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center at Montclair State University.
Rockies right fielder Brad Hawpe suffered a possible concussion when a throw from Padres catcher Nick Hundley hit him in the back of the neck during the sixth inning of Monday's 12-7 Rockies victory.
Right now in our region, thousands of men and women are yawning. They feel exhausted. Many of them are cranky, irritable and can't catch a good night's sleep. VIDEO LINK.
More than half of the nation's population, 186.1 million people to be exact, live and breathe in communities with dangerously high levels of air pollution, new research shows.
The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation has vowed to keep demonstrating against Apple over the Baby Shaker application that appeared for two days on the company's App Store last week, adding iPhone carrier AT&T to its scorn. The group said it will conduct a 15-city protest against the two companies, starting in Boston on 3 May and ending in Seattle on 17 May.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major public health problem, and a deeper understanding of its most prominent symptom,
dyspnea, may lead to improvements in the manner in which it is assessed and treated.
Stroke victims tend to do worse if they also have diagnosed or undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea prior to having the stroke, according to a study presented April 28, 2009, at the American Academy of Neurology
(AAN) annual meeting in Seattle.
If they could not work because of injury or illness, most people who do not have disability coverage would tap savings, borrow from credit cards or ask friends, family or a partner to help support them, according to a study commissioned by Unum (NYSE: UNM - News) and conducted by Harris Interactive
Special Olympics athletes will once again grace the football field at Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Utah Trail at Two Mile Road, for the annual Morongo Basin Special Olympics Track Meet and Bocce Ball Tournament.
The Silver Springs-Stagecoach Hospital District Board will be applying for a Community Block Grant to cover expenses to come into compliance with ADA (Americans with Disability Act) requirements at the Lahontan Medical Center Complex, where the Child and Family Services and Mental Health offices are located.
There's no question that Jay Thompson is disabled. Three years, at age 44, he developed ALS - Low Gerhig's disease. Now he lays immobilized in a hospital bed. So the question is: What happened to his disability insurance? VIDEO LINK.
Death and disability are two of the most difficult things for a family to discuss. But insuring against both is an important part of safeguarding a family's future.
The Green Bay School District's efforts to improve test scores among disabled students appear to be paying off, according to state standardized test scores being released today.
In contrast to the hot and humid climate of the Indian plains, Mizoram is a beautiful hilly region, a terrain so characteristically steep and green that one cannot help but admire.
After Norris Turner's stroke a decade ago, he would tuck his right arm into his pocket to get the nearly useless limb out of the way. Now the 68-year-old from suburban Columbia can use the arm to play catch with his grandson and hit a golf ball nearly 100 feet.
The EU assembly has called on the European Commission to support upcoming major Olympic Games in Warsaw and Athens for people with intellectual disabilities.
Although he suffered a polio attack during his childhood, James
Mwandha, a former Member of Parliament for Persons with Disabilities, did not need to use a walking stick to move from one place to another.
But with every passing day, the 72-year-old Mwandha has been losing the strength in his legs and other parts of his body.
Children of older mothers and children who have breech deliveries are almost twice as likely to develop autism spectrum disorders
(ASD), U.S. researchers report.
A new playground is opening in Sidney - but this one has a twist. It's the Community Wellness Park, an outdoor activity centre geared toward keeping seniors and those with disabilities physically active. VIDEO LINK.
Anticipating budget cutbacks for the next fiscal year, the St. Tammany Parish School Board is considering eliminating some of the services it provides to special education students in non-public schools.
A federal judge has blocked cuts in state Medicaid funding directed to private agencies that serve hundreds of developmentally disabled people across Idaho.
The presentations Matt Glowacki gives worldwide are not really about inspiring people. Instead, the 36-year-old Wisconsin man who was born without legs chooses to educate his audiences about the importance of having high expectations for everyone.
About 1,000 New Jerseyans with serious mental and physical disabilities will lose their jobs if Governor Corzine's proposed budget cuts are enacted, according to officials of vocational rehabilitation programs around the state.
Efforts to start consolidating state schools for the mentally disabled in favor of community-based services crumbled Tuesday as lawmakers in both chambers agreed they would be unable to pass such sweeping legislation.
Legislation to study the feasibility of a prepaid plan for parents of children with developmental disabilities unanimously passed the Florida House today.
Budget constraints will mean service cutbacks and longer waiting times for children with disabilities seeking assistance at the Niagara Peninsula Children's Centre.
Although he's only lived in Kinston for a few years, resident Bill Whitaker has big plans for local veterans, including hosting a ParaGames athletic competition for disabled vets this summer.
A Hamilton County grand jury is investigating the fatal Riverview group home fire in Wells to see what the state should do, if anything, to help prevent such tragedies in the future.
Brevard Public Schools officials laid out a plan tonight on how to spend $16.9 million in stimulus money set aside for disabled students and children with other special needs.
Starting Friday, the transit agency will begin cutting off service to those who repeatedly cancel rides within less than two hours of the scheduled trip - or those who don't show up at all. As a penalty, riders can be suspended from using the service for up to four weeks. The change is worrying disability rights advocates and the riders who rely on the service.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about what parents must do to get taxpayers to pay for a disabled child’s special education at a private school.
Susie Buettner loved flashing a big smile and making people laugh.
Buettner, 49, died April 12 at a group home in Bellevue for people with developmental disabilities and medical problems. She had been hospitalized for pneumonia and died of respiratory problems, her father said.
Students in grades three though six at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Denison received some idea last Thursday what it would be like to live with a disability.
After wide receiver Michael Crabtree, the 49ers' fifth-round draft pick is easily the most fascinating. Ball State's Nate Davis once was considered on par with first-round selections Mark Sanchez and Matthew Stafford. His draft status fell when scouts discovered his learning disability.
Greg Bading is known as a good storyteller, a music lover and a man with an easy laugh. After someone stole Bading's blue K2 bicycle three weeks ago, his co-workers noticed his soaring spirits start to dip. For
Bading, who is developmentally disabled and lives on his own, a bicycle is freedom and independence.
Members of a bipartisan legislative panel voted to recommend that Gov. Pat Quinn close Howe Developmental Center and Tinley Park Mental Health Center at a meeting in Springfield on Tuesday.
More youngsters with disabilities and special needs in Staffordshire are to have specialist soccer coaching thanks to an innovative scheme being launched by a community group.
Between forty to fifty million people worldwide suffer from it and author Amy Frey is one of them. How she dealt with it and kept moving forward is revealed for the first time with the release of her new book Seize Your Day: An Unpredictable Journey: Living Life With Epilepsy.
Drums and Disabilities, a Morris County nonprofit organization, will represents the United States at the International Festival for Different Capabilities in Capri, Italy.
Diversity - among employees and customers - is a business no-brainer. But doing a good job of hiring and marketing to persons with disabilities is harder.
Diabetes UK has launched a DVD for people with Type 2 diabetes who have learning disabilities. The new DVD, which is called 'Diabetes - Living a healthier Life', will enable this audience to have access to the same information about the condition as people with Type 2 diabetes who do not have learning disabilities.
A federal appeals panel has declared that treating doctors don't have the final say in how much nursing care the state must provide children with disabilities under Medicaid.
In order to provide veterinary care for service animals owned by people with disabilities and for pet owners with financial hardships, more than 60 Georgia Veterinary Medical Association member offices in Georgia will donate 10 percent of their gross receipts on May 5 during "Paws to Help," the GVMA Annual Foundation Day.
Every Monday afternoon, siblings Brenna and Sean Callero, ages 15 and 14, go to the Teen Center in Thousand Oaks and teach music to teenagers with disabilities.
As more cases of swine flu are reported in various parts of the world, governments and health officials have scrambled to take precautions to prevent the outbreak from entering their borders.
President Obama said Monday that the swine flu outbreak is a "cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert," but is not a "cause for alarm."
The U.S. State Department plans to issue a travel warning later on Monday urging Americans to avoid all "nonessential" travel to Mexico because of an outbreak of swine flu, a U.S. official said.
The first case of swine flu in Europe was confirmed Monday in Spain as a top European health official warned against travel to Mexico and the United States.
The Department of Health and Human Services today issued a nationwide public health emergency declaration in response to recent human infections with a newly discovered swine influenza A (swine flu) virus.
Eight U.S. cases of a unique form of swine flu have been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the virus apparently spreading via human-to-human contact and not contact with animals. All those affected have been in California and Texas and all have recovered.
The World Health Organization will raise its pandemic alert to an unprecedented level today, saying that swine flu is spreading across North America, two people familiar with the agency said.
The Texas Department of State Health Services today announced that all 14 schools and two district facilities in the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District will be closed effective immediately after several more flu-like illnesses have been discovered in the department's ongoing swine flu investigation.
Esti Lamonaca's illness started with a high fever, a cough and achy bones, just a couple of days after she returned from a spring break trip on the beach in Cancun with friends. By the weekend, her voice was hoarse and she was wearing a surgical mask.
Swine flu (swine influenza) is a disease of pigs. It is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by one of many Influenza A viruses. Approximately 1% to 4% of pigs that get swine flu die from it. It is spread among pigs by direct and indirect contact, aerosols, and from pigs that are infected but do not have symptoms. In many parts of the world pigs are vaccinated against swine flu.
he United States launched border screening for swine flu exposure Monday morning. U.S. border officials will be asking travelers about fever and illness, looking for signs of people who are ill. VIDEO LINK.
The government's pandemic flu contingency plan, dating from November 2007, warns that up to 750,000 Britons might die were a pandemic to strike with maximum force.
Medical authorities in Ontario are investigating a number of cases of suspected swine flu that has caused more than 100 deaths in Mexico and spread to at least two other Canadian provinces, the United States and Europe.
The nation's largest pediatricians' group recommends "abusive head trauma," calling it a more comprehensive diagnosis for brain, skull and spinal injuries associated with shaking and other head injuries inflicted on infants.
Patti Lemen is feeding chocolate pudding in a cup to a man curled in a wheelchair. Randy and the other 'persons served' at Rainbow are her people. She is the program coordinator at the center, but there was a time when she was on the other side of the name tag.
Scientists in Italy and Ireland are reporting development of the first wireless sensor that gives second-by-second readings of oxygen levels in the brain. The new microsensor - smaller than a dime - could become the basis for tiny devices to help test drugs and other treatments for patients with traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and other conditions.
Pat Cocciolone is putting her story on paper. "It's not going to be another one of those 'cop' books: 'This is how I got hurt,'" said
Cocciolone, who's 49. Her book, which she’s been working on for the past year, will document the 1997 shooting that forced Cocciolone to retire from the Atlanta Police Department and killed her partner, John "Rick" Sowa. It also will detail her recovery from the brain damage that stole her ability to read, write, walk and talk.
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a way to prevent blood vessels from aiding the growth of
neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer. The pre-clinical study was presented today in a platform session at the 22nd annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Urologix(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:ULGX) is pleased to announce the launch of the CTC AdvanceTM Short treatment catheter at the 2009 American Urological Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois being held April 25-29, 2009.
C-signaling proteins that fight foreign agents such as viruses and tumors also suppress brain tumor development, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
(UPCI). Results of the study, Abstract Number 4187, were presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
(AACR).
Despite many improvements in stroke services over the past decade, a quarter of patients in the National Sentinel Audit for Stroke 2008 were not offered the best treatment for stroke, a stay in a dedicated stroke unit.
A preliminary study on the use of stem cells obtained from a patient's own adipose tissue in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has shown promising results. The three case studies, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Translational Medicine, support further clinical evaluation of stromal vascular fraction
(SVF) cells in MS and other autoimmune conditions.
Making the best of a life devastated 25 years ago in Newry by a hit-and-run driver, recently got a bit easier and healthier for Jennifer Turner of Auburn.
Doctors told Debi Sjoberg she would never walk again. At 39 she suffered a stroke that paralyzed her left side. Sjoberg started using Walk-Aide. The electronic device sends an electrical pulse to the nerves, allowing the muscles to contract and lift her foot.
Laureus World Sports Academy member and British Paralympics legend Grey Thompson Tanni will launch of the new initiative by the Rwanda NPC which will provide opportunities for recreation and sport for persons with disabilities on April 28.
Rebekah Landis was weeks old when the hospital called her parents and told them to rush in to say goodbye. Their infant daughter, born nearly three months too early, wasn't going to survive. She's healthy, her vision is fine, and other than slight paralysis on her left side -- the result of those early hemorrhages -- Landis is a tour de force.
With more than 30 muscles in your arm, controlling movement -- whether it's grasping a glass or throwing a baseball -- is a complex task that potentially takes into account thousands of variables.
Because of concerns about the possible high lead content of children's toys and frequent manufacturer recalls, St. Vincent de Paul is getting out of the toy business.
The number of shaken baby cases rose to 30 a year, considerable, considering there was only 10 cases two years ago. And statistically, 25 percent of those cases will die, while the rest will often live a life of disability and constant care. VIDEO LINK.
Jan Veintidos, of Pickering High School, wants to visit a nurse in Shreveport to show her he can do what she told him he never would do.
"I couldn't talk and I had to mouth everything," Veintidos says of his emergency visit to LSU Hospital last Oct. 10, when he collapsed and was paralyzed after trying to block a linebacker in a football game against East Beauregard High School.
The 64-slice CT scanner delivers the most efficient radiation dose to pregnant patients with possible pulmonary emboli (PE) providing less risk to the fetus, according to a study performed at SUNY Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, NY.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published final guidance on the use of rivaroxaban for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in adults after having planned total hip replacement or total knee replacement surgery. NICE produced the guidance as part of its rapid single technology appraisal
(STA) work programme.
Many venous disorders are mild, but some are serious. Deep-vein thrombosis
(DVT), the formation of a blood clot in a vein, is a major concern for hospitalized patients, but it can also strike people like you who are immobile for long periods of time while traveling. And it can be life-threatening.
Muscle deterioration in patients with lung diseases might be a direct consequence of high carbon dioxide levels in their blood, an international team of researchers headed by Prof. Yosef Gruenbaum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has found.
The father of an 18-year-old Nashville student with a form of autism has sued the state because his son can't get a regular high school degree without passing an Algebra test.
Like every young voter, Silsila was very excited on her way to the polling booth on Thursday. But the 23-year-old did not have the slightest inkling of what awaited her at the Udayachal L P School. So disappointed was the physically challenged woman with the facilities at the polling station that from now, she will think twice before coming out to vote next time.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the second most common disability among children in Qatar, after speech and hearing problems, says a senior consultant of Developmental Paediatrics and Rehabilitation at the Hamad Medical Corporation
(HMC).
A school-age snapshot of Alex and Alexis sharing a hug clearly shows the affection between the two when they were classmates at Columbia's Miller Elementary School. VIDEO LINK.
That's what learning-disabled Yonkers resident Jose Rivera believes will happen this year. In January, Rivera's sons received their normal checks, but he got only $131.50.
More than 140,000 people in the U.S. die each year from stroke, making it the country's second leading cause of death for women, and the third for men.
Pat Gesualdo had worked with Deep Purple, Kiss and Quiet Riot during his career as a drummer. He's now working with children and adults suffering from disabilities as the chief executive officer of the nonprofit organization Drums and Disabilities.
It seems pretty straightforward; you pay for disability insurance out of every paycheck. If you get sick and can no longer work, you collect the money you paid in. But more and more Americans are discovering it's not that easy to collect disability insurance. A local man contacted 17News and said it happened to him. VIDEO LINK.
After practicing for about six weeks, his specially designed tennis ball thrower paid off as Ethan Loomis earned a blue first-place ribbon at the Special Olympics field day.
Advocates for the disabled yesterday complained the state is moving too slowly to use federal Medicaid money to help people leave such institutions as nursing homes and relocate into small community settings.
The MRDD board - faced with a budget deficit of about $14 million by the end of 2011 - says it will close its Rebecca Stallman Southgate School in Canton Township and its Eastgate preschool in Louisville if voters reject the levy request.
The public is encouraged to comment on a city plan to update features to public places so people with disabilities can use them safely and conveniently.
Scott Winkler looks like a linebacker, his athletic build not diminished by the fact that he is paralyzed from the waist down and is in a wheelchair from an injury he suffered in the Iraq war.
Disabled-rights activist Dennis Sharp has sued Encinitas in federal court, saying the city's downtown street improvements ignored the needs of people like him who use a wheelchair.
In Tennessee, the Division of Mental Retardation Services, which is part of the state government's finance wing, and the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities both have a role in overseeing care for mentally disabled people.
Roughly 150 special education students arrived at Dark Horse stadium bright and early Wednesday, dressed out in their athletic wear, armed and ready for the annual local Special Olympics events.
Disabled job-seekers in Hawaii having harder time finding work.
He's scoured depressingly meager help-wanted ads. He's hit the pavement hoping to find something - anything - to generate a paycheck. But like so many other would-be wage earners these days, Young hasn't been able to get a break. VIDEO LINK.
Susan Clavadetscher got a few jobs after high school in Chester Township, but when employers started cutting her hours, her concerns about having Down syndrome grew.
Misty is an outgoing teenager with a lot of friends. She has Cerebral Palsy, can't get around easily, and uses a wheelchair. She says she does have problems speaking, sometimes, and writing. VIDEO LINK.
Jennifer Scianna will be graduating in May. But just last summer, she was on the verge of being a college dropout. She said her college sent her a letter stating she had been removed from the University last spring because her grades were so poor.
The program is not mandated by the state or federal government, unless the student has some type of disability, such as learning, behavior or language. Those students who do not fall under the federal coverage pay a fee.
There will be no cuts in the funding for Ancora and other state psychiatric hospitals in the governor's proposed 2010 budget, despite large-scale cuts in other programs and threatened layoffs of state workers.
Having the platform to talk about issues surrounding disabilities was what got Maryan Amaral interested in competing in the Ms. Wheelchair Massachusetts pageant.
Jarrett Sekosky, 14, has autism, a developmental disability that affects the normal functioning of the brain and development in communication and socialization.
The Supreme Court will consider a question this week that has riled parents, cost local school boards here and across the country hundreds of millions of dollars, and vexed the justices themselves: When must public school officials pay for private schooling for children with special needs?
In early 2007, Jen and Bob Mankowski were shopping around for a home of their own, with little success. Both were software engineers who had returned to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. They wanted a reasonable commute to Oakland. Because Bob uses a wheelchair, the house had to have living quarters and a garage on one level - and a level lot.
The Special K Ranch just west of Park City provides a place for adults with developmental disabilities to live and work together. Dallas Eide was the first person to take up residency there, moving in January 21, 1987.
Drew Wall, aided by a pair of crutches, stood tall Friday as he watched Gov. Chet Culver sign legislation, a bill Wall helped push through the General Assembly this year.
Students in grades three though six at St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Denison received some idea last Thursday what it would be like to live with a disability.
It was recess, and the 10-year-old boy was playing wall ball with a few friends. Math, his favorite subject, was coming up and the fourth-grader was looking forward to working on fractions.
The Union Parliament has ratified the United Nations Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities this week, making Tanzania the 127th UN member state to ratify the convention and its optional protocol.
TERI, Inc., a national leader providing training, education and research programs for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities, today announced a first-of-its-kind service offering comprehensive Special Needs Life Quality
Plans(TM) for families and caregivers of people with developmental disabilities.
As reported in an earlier edition of Policy Corner, members of the House of Representatives have introduced the National Neurotechnology Initiative Act (HR 1483), a bill designed to foster new discoveries and accelerate the development of new and safer treatments for Americans living with brain-related illness, injury or disease.
The sponsors of this Act, Representative Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI 1st) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL 18th), have called upon Congress to reverse the growing economic burden generated by brain-related illness, which exceeds $1 trillion per year in the U.S. due to healthcare costs and lost income.
Within the last 72 hours America has seen the soul of your organizations and something is very wrong. Your companies are reporting record earnings and yet you are showing no signs of corporate responsibility.
As you know by now, Apple released an iPhone application on Monday which simulated and encouraged the shaking and killing of babies called "BABY SHAKER".
Darryl Gibbs couldn't believe it. His daughter, Cynthia, was just 8 months old when she died of massive brain damage after being shaken by a childcare provider.
Apple on Thursday apologized for offering on its App Store the "deeply offensive" Baby Shaker iPhone application that sparked protests from groups fighting infant abuse.
Apple issued a statement Thursday apologizing for allowing the Baby Shaker application onto the App Store.
"This application was deeply offensive and should not have been approved for distribution on the App Store. When we learned of this mistake, the app was removed immediately. We sincerely apologize for this mistake and thank our customers for bringing this to our attention."
Amid the discussions of the "Baby Shaker" iPhone app that has been pulled from the market - there is a larger issue of the causes and effects of Shaken Baby Syndrome and the work of public awareness and education.
Take time to learn more with this page of links to dozens of websites. video and podcasts about
SBS.
Auburn student Jason Stanley left Skybar the night of Jan. 25, 2007, after having an altercation with a bouncer. His attack left him with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Now he and his mother are striving to make people aware of the severity that brain injury has on an individual.
Few of us remember learning to walk and talk; this is something we always remember being able to do. Lori Purdy Faitel was involved in a terrible automobile accident in1986 which resulted in a closed-head injury and left her in a coma for 7 days. Lori’s book, "Am I Brain Damaged??" is her memoir of her return to life, her recovery, both mental and physical, as she grew up all over again. It took 2 years for her to reach an 8th grade level, which she was told was as far as she would go. Lori went on to graduate from college.
After a head injury on Tuesday night, Patrick Clegg, the 16-year old Waynesville High School baseball player, St. John's doctors have declared Patrick is brain dead.
Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. today announced initiation of a multi-center, clinical feasibility study designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the
Company's proprietary protein biomarkers, in detecting mild or moderate traumatic brain injury
(MTBI). Banyan Biomarkers' study will test a panel of biomarkers in blood from several hundred MTBI patients.
Whether painting in her house, playing with her dog, or working on the computer, 47-year old Kathy Pedersen of Helena might not strike you as a brain injury survivor.
With millions of Americans struggling with the rising costs of health insurance and health care, heart and stroke survivors, youth advocates and researchers from across the country today urged Congress to make a commitment to pass meaningful health reform.
A decision last fall by the National Quality Forum to reject a proposal that called for CT scans on stroke patients to be taken and read within 45 minutes of entering the emergency department illustrates the difficulty of developing best-practice guidelines for medical care, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Obama administration currently is advocating for the medical industry to develop more guidelines as a way of controlling health care spending, according to the Journal.
In order to better prevent blood clots, clopidogrel can be prescribed to patients with acute ischaemia of the heart muscle, in addition to acetylsalicylic acid
(ASA).
Hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy was well-tolerated and improved symptoms in patients with recurrent low-grade
glioma, according to researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. The data were presented at the AACR 100th Annual Meeting 2009.
The 64-slice CT scanner delivers the most efficient radiation dose to pregnant patients with possible pulmonary emboli (PE) providing less risk to the fetus, according to a study performed at SUNY Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, NY.
Considering opening up the annual flu vaccination campaign to everyone aged over 60 should be considered by the government, say advisers to the Department of Health, according to Pulse. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's flu subgroup - which makes recommendations on national flu vaccine policy - said there was evidence to suggest adding healthy adults aged 60-64 to the programme would be beneficial.
An in-depth analysis of blood from patients recovering from the H5N1 avian influenza virus has provided important insights into how to combat the potentially lethal virus
The total number of confirmed cases in recent months of swine flu in the US now comes to 7, with the addition earlier this month of two infected children living in adjacent counties in southern California. None of the infected people had been in contact with pigs, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Jim Raso is a quadriplegic who depends on others for most of his physical needs. But on one terrifying night a year ago, the 48-year-old Ambrose Street resident did something he hadn't done for years and hasn't done since -- he got himself out of bed.
Adam Wilson posted two messages on Twitter on April 15. The first one, "GO BADGERS," might have been sent by any University of Wisconsin-Madison student cheering for the school team.
He'd done the same thing so many times. Climb up a tree, swing a leg over and do a
pullup. On Oct. 25, 2008, Kirk Pedersen, a physical education teacher from Northville who lives fitness, made the 20-foot climb and began easing into his hunting tree stand when a chain snapped, sending him crashing to the ground.
As noted earlier, Angelina Love suffered a concussion during the three-way match with Awesome Kong and Taylor Wilde at Lockdown. The newly crowned TNA Women's Knockout Champion suffered the injury while taking a cross body block from Wilde. The person taking the move is supposed to kick their feet out and take the bump on their back while catching the person executing the move, explained a former TNA wrestler. He also added that it appeared Love caught Wilde a bit too high and absorbed the bump on her own head.
South Atlantic League umpire Koyu Inoue was treated for a concussion and released from a local hospital after being hit in the head with a foul ball during a Greensboro Grasshoppers game Thursday night.
When people have a hard time getting around, they can turn to service dogs for help. One organization needs a little help making that happen on a larger scale. VIDEO LINK.
Katonah Bedford Veterinary Center in Bedford Hills, N.Y., is teaming up with The American College of Veterinary
Ophthalmologists(R) (ACVO) to take part in the ACVO/Merial(R) National Service Dog Eye Exam event, May 4n8. This event will provide free sight-saving eye exams to service dogs throughout New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Have you ever heard of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)? Dr. Lewis Newberg will share his story, his decades of experience, and his knowledge on sleep apnea through this comprehensive and extensive discussion. Let The Last Surgeon show you a vivid picture of the origin, causes and cure of this illness.
Dr. Basil S. Hetzel is the recipient of the 2009 Pollin Prize in recognition of his discovery that maternal iodine deficiency can cause brain damage in newborns, and for orchestrating an effective global campaign in support of salt iodization programs aimed at eradicating iodine deficiency disorders.
Radiologists are now able to look at parts of the brain using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) that are rarely visible with any other imaging method, according to a study performed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a new drug that restricts the growth of
neuroblastoma, a childhood brain cancer. The pre-clinical study was presented in the plenary session at the 22nd annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
According to the Medilexicon's medical dictionary, restless legs syndrome is "a sense of indescribable uneasiness, twitching, or restlessness that occurs in the legs after going to bed, frequently leading to insomnia, which may be relieved temporarily by walking about; thought to be caused by inadequate circulation or as a side effect of some SSRIs and other psychotropic medications".
While it was thought that the internationally approved gold standard treatment was sufficient to control obstructive sleep apnoea and its dangerous consequences, a major French study shortly to be published in the European Respiratory Journal
(ERJ) will certainly set the cat among the pigeons.
International leaders in global health will join Rwandan government officials at a press conference in the coming days in Kigali to announce the first national immunisation programme against pneumococcal disease in a developing country. Pneumococcal disease, which can cause potentially life-threatening illnesses such as pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, is the leading vaccine-preventable killer of children younger than five worldwide.
New research on asthma is giving tantalizing hints that it may be possible to diminish symptoms of the debilitating breathing disorder by using vitamin D.
A total of seven cases of a previously undetected strain of swine flu have been confirmed in humans in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. None of the patients has had direct contact with pigs.
After undergoing tests to determine brain activity, Waynesville High School junior Patrick Clegg was pronounced brain dead by St. John's Hospital doctors Thursday evening. VIDEO LINK.
A woman who was paralyzed aboard a weekend Continental flight to McAllen from Houston is showing signs of improvement after a second surgery, her surgeon said.
When Debra Chaney could no longer whistle, she thought nothing of it. Looking back, she realized it was one her first symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Results of a recent two-year study show promising long-term survival benefits for patients living with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
(PAH), a progressive, life-threatening disease in which the small blood vessels in the lungs become scarred and narrowed causing the pressure in the pulmonary arteries to rise to dangerously high levels, putting a major strain on the heart.
Lung transplant patients who receive two lungs are twice as likely to live more than 10 years than patients who receive one lung are, Johns Hopkins transplant surgeons say.
New research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment
(NIHR HTA) programme will assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of methods used to treat lung infections caused by an organism called Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.
aeruginosa) in children and adults with cystic fibrosis.
A long standing mobility constraint faced by Oumie Ngum Maisa, one of The Gambia's outstanding female musicians, became a thing of the past yesterday, thanks to the Dresden-Banjul
Organisation, which donated a four-seater Mitsubishi vehicle to the differentially abled Ndaga star.
Canada's fight against lung disease took a big step forward today as Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced a federal investment of $10 million towards the National Lung Health Framework - Canada's first-ever action plan on lung health.
American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) Senior Director for Technology Policy Jenifer Simpson spoke on "Key Issues for People with Disabilities in Broadband Adoption" at the New York Law School's AdvancedComm Summit 2009 held today on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Bill Pascrell joined a Republican colleague from North Carolina today to argue for better treatment for an unlikely group: Former soldiers, sailors and Marines who receive less-than-honorable discharges for drug and alcohol use.
Autism affects 1 in 150 people, but it can often leave those with the developmental disability feeling different from everybody else. We went on a trip to the Special Olympics, where everybody fits in. video link.
Cameron Davenport is in need of one of man's best friends, but not just any dog will do. The 10-year-old Cambrian area resident has severe autism and is in need of a specially trained service dog, and his parents have embarked on a fundraising campaign to get him one.
Although increasing numbers of centres are providing a thrombolysis service, less than 10% of appropriate patients are actually receiving the drug nationally.
Despite a subtle limp, Sam Morrissette carries himself with a quiet confidence. The hitch in his stride - caused by a prosthetic right leg - is barely noticeable when Morrissette steps on a racquetball court.
Powell River Disability Sport Club will soon have wheelchairs, which will help expand the program offerings for participants. The wheelchairs have been purchased with the money from the 2007 Powell River BC Disability Games.
Sixteen students from Barrington Community Unit School District 220, ranging in age from eight to 16, will head to North Central College in Naperville to compete in the Special Olympics Area 2 Spring Games Sunday.
Hasaan Hawthorne's take on living as an amputee surprises a lot of people. "I think it's funner having prosthetics than real legs because you get to do more stuff," said
Hasaan, 11, a fifth-grader at Valley Intermediate School in Pelham.
A disabilities-rights activist who has filed dozens of complaints against Gettysburg businesses alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act has withdrawn some complaints from the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and re-filed those cases in federal court.
The Every Disabled Child Matters campaign (EDCM) welcomes the announcement of measures to provide additional financial support to disabled children in the 2009 Budget.
A medical centre that will offer orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, special programmes for cleft lip/palate and clubfoot rehabilitation to mainly children, has opened in Kampala.
Two youths with special needs made an impassioned plea today inside Peel Region Council Chambers for the Region to address problems of transportation and accessibility.
A not-for-profit organization that focuses on disability issues has named Surprise a finalist in its search for the most disability-friendly community in the country.
A special meeting has been set for May 6 to continue the community debate over whether two group homes should be built near a busy highway in Fairfield.
In 1986, Todd Gandolfo was a 17-year-old senior at Salem High School who loved sports, water skiing and his friends. He had been accepted into the Air Force, which he planned to enter after graduation. In an instant, however, all that changed. A freak accident in gym class left him with a brain injury and landed him in a wheelchair, immobile and unable to speak.
Mona Smith of Whitewood hopes the whole Black Hills population turns out for the Special Olympics this weekend at Black Hills State University’s track and field Friday and the aquatics events at the Sturgis Community Center Saturday.
Not only do school districts issue report cards to their students, but they also receive report cards of their own, issued by the state, reporting their students’ progress.
Dance is an art of the human body. It exposes emotions through physical manifestations, and choreography uses the rich lexicon of body language. It seems, then, that any choreographer looking to stretch the limits of corporeal expression would require performers with incredible versatility and training. But choreographers' avid searches for such rare ability inevitably overlook one fascinating factor in human movement: disability.
I feel very fortunate to work in the field of civil rights and social justice. However, in the midst of the every day, I am so often focused on the issues at hand that I find myself overwhelmed by the struggle.
Joseph Gilbert doesn't know a lot of people with disabilities, but from now on, when he meets individuals with physical challenges he'll view them with a different perspective.
Top administrators at the Iowa Department of Human Services said Thursday they are committed to providing "state-of-the-art care" for the disabled residents of the Glenwood Resource Center.
Black and Latino boys with disabilities are more likely to land in special ed classes where dropout rates are high and chances of graduating are slim, a new report showed.
The Plateau State government has launched a special education fund for handicapped children. Mrs Sarah
Ochekpe, Chairperson, Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board, told newsmen yesterday in Jos that the fund would carter for the provision of instructional materials and learning aids for children with disabilities.
Nearly 400 Special Olympians and their partners turned out Thursday for the area Special Olympics
C.M. Russell Area Spring Games at the Great Falls High School
Fieldhouse.
A group of young people with hearing disabilities has prepared a set of recommendations - to be submitted to the concerned authorities - on new rules and practices that would help facilitate their integration into society.
The Association for Special Children and Families (ASCF), together with the Center for Family Resources
(CFR), will host its annual Disabilities Resource Fair on Saturday, May 9, at the Hillcrest Community Center gym, 1810 Macopin Road. The fair runs from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Hong Wei was born with an extra thumb on his right hand. His elder sister
Lixia, who's 14, was born with a twisted left foot and walks with a heavy limp. Like many people in Shanxi, this family is too poor to go to the doctors.
This time, Kyle Maynard left home and made his way to Auburn, Ala., a week early. But too many people didn't want him to fight. They didn't like the idea of an accomplished high school wrestler who was born with no arms or legs below the elbows or knees with an awesomely inspirational personal story participating in an Atlanta amateur event.
Okay, this is just beyond ridiculous and a bit horrifying. In Apple's App Store right now is Baby Shaker, a new app which, displays a picture of a baby and plays crying sounds. To make it stop, you have to shake your iPhone really hard, after which the crying will stop and two X's will be placed over the baby’s eyes - implying, of course, that the baby is dead. I'm not kidding. GRAPHIC VIDEO.
There may be plenty of seemingly useless iPhone apps for sale
(iBeer, anyone?), but Apple’s vetting process for approving new applications from developers came under scrutiny in the case of a 99-cent app called Baby Shaker that simulated the shaking of an infant.
Apple has apparently rethought its decision to allow an iPhone application that allows you to shake a baby to death to quiet its crying. Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, which fights pediatric brain injuries, took Apple to task in a letter, saying, "As the father of a 3-year-old who was shaken by her baby nurse when she was only 5 days old, breaking three ribs, both collarbones and causing a severe brain injury, words cannot describe my reaction."
Amid the discussions of the "Baby Shaker" iPhone app that has been pulled from the market - there is a larger issue of the causes and effects of Shaken Baby Syndrome and the work of public awareness and education.
Take time to learn more with this page of links to dozens of websites. video and podcasts about
SBS.
Sometimes you really have to scratch your head and wonder how certain apps could possibly make it through Apple's approval process. Developed by
Sikalosoft, Baby Shaker features a crude drawing of a baby, and the object of the game is to stop the baby from crying by shaking the iPhone until red X's appear over the baby's eyes.
If you needed any further proof that Apple's App Store approval process is horrifyingly out of whack, consider one of the latest additions to the App Store: Baby Shaker.
A new study reveals that over 5.5 million Americans, nearly 2 per cent of the population, are paralysed or partly paralyzed, mostly by stroke and spinal injury. This is a lot more than was previously thought.
A Mississippi woman gave police quite a surprise last Tuesday night after deputies stepped over the body of her estranged husband on the back porch and entered the couple's rural home. Tammy Sexton, 57, sat up in bed and offered the officers a drink quite unaware that a bullet had struck beneath her left eye and exited out the back of her head.
When Timothy Stoveken had a brain aneurysm 15 years ago, it went a long way toward changing his life, but not toward changing his drive, ambitions and work ethic.
Two years and two months ago, Linda and Joe Murray's daughter, Tammy Barnes of Pocatello, Idaho, suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling down the steps of her home -- an injury that not only altered her life and the lives of those around her but also changed her worldview.
Cory Mendoza, 12, died Sunday at Stony Brook University Hospital after suffering internal bleeding. Cory, who was born Sept. 27, 1996, suffered a brain injury in a near-drowning at his Ronkonkoma home in May 1998.
Early on the afternoon of April 1, Adam Wilson posted a message to Twitter. But instead of using his hands to type, the University of Wisconsin biomedical engineer used his brain. "USING EEG TO SEND TWEET," he thought.
Gov. Deval Patrick's administration announced Tuesday that the Statewide Head Injury Program of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission has received a $1 million competitive federal grant to expand services to patients with brain injuries.
When warriors return home from the battlefield, they often struggle with emotional and psychological illness. Many have suffered brain injuries, and most face difficulties readjusting to civilian life. To help those servicemen help themselves, the U.S. Defense Department has opened a 24-hour telephone help line.
"The Helmet saved my life": Jeff Dombrowski was riding his bicycle when he was hit by a car traveling 55 mph. He was hospitalized with several broken bones. The Jenison man, who temporarily wears a halo brace, is expected to recover quickly.
Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance of our experiences and how we form memories of them.
Scientists in Italy and Ireland are reporting development of the first wireless sensor that gives second-by-second readings of oxygen levels in the brain. The new microsensor - smaller than a dime - could become the basis for tiny devices to help test drugs and other treatments for patients with traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and other conditions.
Cancer that spreads to other organs finds a particularly inviting hideout in the brain, where these metastases are usually far harder to treat than they are in other locations. Two researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center discussed ways to more successfully target these tumors in their "sanctuary" at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009 in Denver.
Researchers from the University of Southern California have taken an important first step toward protecting against Huntington disease using gene therapy.
The current study reports that the prognosis for children with TBI is not as positive as it was once thought, specially when the TBI is accompanied by acute clinical symptoms.
Donald O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues, were able to accurately predict the specific genetic mutation that caused brain cancer in a group of patients studied using magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI).
In research published in PLoS Medicine, Hana Golding of the US Food and Drug Administration and colleagues have identified the regions
(epitopes) of influenza virus that are recognized by antibodies in the blood of people who have recovered from H5N1 avian influenza infection.
Circadiance launched the revolutionary SleepWeaver(TM) ADVANCE All Cloth Nasal CPAP Mask at the Medtrade Spring Tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada March 25 - 26. More than 3,000 Home Care Professionals were in attendance at the conference. The
SleepWeaver(TM) ADVANCE received an overwhelmingly favorable response from Home Care Business Owners, Managers and Respiratory Therapists.
Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on allergy, announced that it has initiated a phase II clinical study of its
ToleroMune(R) technology in allergy patients with asthma. The trial builds on positive phase II results that demonstrated the potential clinical benefits of ToleroMune allergy therapy, and extends clinical investigations to those with allergy-associated asthma.
Transave, Inc., reported completion of patient enrollment in a Phase II study evaluating the safety and efficacy of
Arikace(TM) (liposomal amikacin for inhalation) in non-cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis patients. The results, which are expected to be available by mid-year, will shed new light on how this patient population responds to treatment. Presently, there are no approved treatments for the disease.
Does asthma run in your family? Depending on how many relatives are affected and how close they are, your risk of asthma could be up to six times higher than the average person's, according to a report in the May issue of Genetics in Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of The American College of Medical Genetics. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
NanoBio Corp. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Investigational New Drug
(IND) application for the Phase 1 clinical study of NB-1008, a seasonal influenza vaccine administered via a nasal dropper.
At age 11, Michelle Ballasiotes is already a seasoned Washington lobbyist for the American Heart Association. Michelle is also the national Youth Advocate of the Year for the heart association for her tireless efforts on behalf of young stroke patients like herself.
In acute ischemic stroke, the blood supply to the brain is restricted. Initially, brain cells die from lack of oxygen. In addition, ischemia activates harmful inflammatory processes in the affected area of the brain. For the first time, scientists at the Neurology Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital have shown that certain immune cells in the blood inhibit inflammation after a stroke.
used to be a mover, back in the day. I could throw a few shapes on the
dancefloor, oh yes. I was at my happiest dancing to a bit of Sixties or Northern Soul, and my record collection reflects that. But after becoming paraplegic, all that changed.
When athlete and sports fan Davey Bartlett was paralyzed from the chest down in a trampoline accident at age 15, he wasn't sure he'd ever be able to pick up a basketball again. VIDEO LINK.
Greg Gadson played football at West Point, is a lieutenant colonel in the Army, and is also a double amputee. Two years ago, he lost both legs in a roadside bombing in Iraq. Gadson is the first person in the world to test the latest "power knee." VIDEO LINK.
Slava Marcus will be leaving Billings with a cowboy hat and a new leg. Marcus traveled from the town of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia to Billings on a medical visa - a trip that covered 15 time zones - to be fitted for a prosthetic limb.
In a critical moment of the Academy Award-winning film, "The Best Years of our Lives," amputee Homer Parrish reaches for a wedding ring with his hook prosthetic, grasps it, and then delicately slides it onto the finger of his childhood sweetheart, Wilma Cameron.
As reported earlier, Angelina Love suffered a concussion following an errant blow on the part of Taylor Wilde during her match at the Lockdown pay-per-view.
At 8 months old, Ethen was shaken by his in-home baby sitter in Bellevue. The injury caused traumatic injury to the left side of his brain, which controls the right side of the body, understanding and use of language, detailed analysis of information, and memory.
The phone rings, and you are told that you need to come to the hospital immediately because your baby has been injured. Upon arrival, the doctor tells you that your baby has been shaken.
A toddler who suffered from shaken baby syndrome allegedly from the hands of his babysitter had previously received an unexplained black eye and a 'pinch/bite' mark on his lip while in her care at her home day care center in Broken Arrow.
Sleep disordered breathing -- sleep apnea -- is highly prevalent among retired National Football League players, particularly linemen, U.S. researchers said.
The family of Stephen Hawking, the acclaimed wheelchair-bound British scientist, expect him to make a full recovery a day after he was rushed to hospital, a Cambridge University spokesman has said.
A six-year-old Egyptian boy has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the 24th human fatality of the disease in Egypt, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.
Generally speaking, patients with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) deteriorate suddenly, in bursts, often as a result of bacterial or viral infections.
A new Kiwanis Aktion Club has been formed to give adults with developmental disabilities a chance to develop leadership skills and participate in community service projects.
150,000 TennCare recipients statewide could be without the medical coverage they depend on soon. TennCare is sending out letters to enrollees asking for information to make sure they are still eligible. This is all because of a 21 year injunction that's been reversed by a federal judge. VIDEO LINK.
One man is using his own experience to uplift Central New Yorkers. When he was 15 years old, Cameron Clapp was struck by a train and lost both his legs and his right arm. VIDEO LINK.
Anita Stickler and her elderly parents have used the residential handicapped parking spot in front of their house on
Davenport's Arlington Avenue for a little more than seven years.
He might make his opponent tap out. He may even make a little history along the way while doing it. But the one thing you’ll never find Kyle Maynard making is an excuse.
Two sisters from Holyoke High School want to stamp out the "R" word. "The R word, retarded ... It means you are stupid, it is a derogatory term and it hurts a lot of people," said Courtney E. Neil, 17, a junior.
In an unprecedented effort to increase access to the executive branch and promote equal rights for people with disabilities, President Obama invited CEOs from the Nation's top disability organizations, including Paul J. Tobin, United Spinal Association's President
(www.unitedspinal.org), to participate in a White House briefing on the Administration's disability policy initiatives, and budget and recovery plans.
The best thing the community can do to help Special Olympics athletes is show up at Friday's track and field event to show their support, said Cindi Faulkner, whose 20-year-old daughter Tiffany has participated in the organization's events since she was 8.
Work has begun on installing handicap ramps along Main Street and soon the state should step in to make the overpasses on Main Street and Essex Street handicap accessible as well.
A plan to consolidate elementary students with multiple disabilities into one school building drew criticism during Marion City Schools' meeting on Monday.
Having the platform to talk about issues surrounding disabilities was what got Maryan Amaral interested in competing in the Ms. Wheelchair Massachusetts pageant, which she won last month.
Alex Bahney says in four years he's batting a thousand: four-for-four. But he
isn't talking about his stats at the plate. He's referring to his four surgeries on his left knee -- one every year of his high school career. VIDEO LINK.
At least 5.6 million Americans suffer from paralysis, a condition
that's 40 percent more common than previously thought, according to a new study from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
Persons with disabilities are not to be pitied but they are to be engaged because everyone of them has something to contribute to the development of the society, former World Bank president James Wolfensohn told a seminar yesterday
Seven months after a child fell to his death from an elevator in a Brooklyn public housing complex, some disabled residents are slapping the city with a class-action lawsuit for failing to maintain elevators inside their own buildings. VIDEO LINK.
Cameron Lutges received a big surprise on his seventh birthday: a brand new pair of running legs, built especially for him by the professionals at Loma Linda University Medical Center East Campus.
The paycheck is nice, but for Robin Whitaker, her job is more than that. It's an affirmation that people with developmental disabilities have a purpose; they are part of the community.
A blind artist in Santa Clara County is not only making a name for herself in the art world but her business now involves helping other disabled artists.
Nonprofits that help people with mental illness, addiction and developmental disabilities need more than just state funds and fundraising dollars to lean on when times get tough.
Changes to the city’s building bylaw will make Summerside more accessible and environmentally friendly in new construction and renovation projects.
City council has approved two new requirements that will bring in more efficient energy-saving measures and make new apartment and condominium projects more accessible for physically challenged residents.
The student team dominated the faculty and staff team in the fourth quarter to win ACU's first Disability Awareness Week wheelchair basketball game Friday in Moody Coliseum.
There's more than one set of standards for how to make new apartment complexes accessible for people with physical disabilities, and Collierville is moving to expand the choices.
WORKERS with disabilities are the latest victims of the financial crisis. As companies try to cut costs by moving production jobs offshore or keeping them in-house, businesses that employ disabled workers are losing contracts.
Children with high function autism, PDD n NOS and learning disabilities now have the opportunity to take part in theater arts classes called Arts4Everyone!
When her husband suffered a brain injury while covering the war in Iraq for ABC News, Lee Woodruff relied on friends to get her through the toughest days.
UEFA's partnership with Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia (SOEE) to promote programmes for footballers with intellectual disabilities features a football match on Monday.
A new type of swine flu has infected at least two children in California and while both have recovered, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday they were looking for more cases.
Research on mice shows that those carrying the most lice had calmer immune systems than uninfested rodents, and they said their finding may have implications for studying the causes of asthma and allergies in people.
The federal government must adopt tougher standards for helmets to reduce the rising number of concussions suffered on provincial ski slopes, a conference on brain injuries in Edmonton has been told.
Scientists in Italy and Ireland are reporting development of the first wireless sensor that gives second-by-second readings of oxygen levels in the brain. The new microsensor - smaller than a dime - could become the basis for tiny devices to help test drugs and other treatments for patients with traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and other conditions. The study appears in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal.
"I remember taking a turn and bright lights in my face," Lauria says. Those bright lights belonged to a semi. Lauria's cruiser slammed into the big rig and flipped over. His therapists say he suffered a brain injury so severe it left him in a coma for a month and a half. VIDEO LINK.
Brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults. In Iowa, falls are the leading cause of brain injury. Simple changes can help.
The City of Ottawa could soon make helmets mandatory in skate parks and other recreational facilities, says the city's community and protective services committee.
When plaques coating blood vessel walls rupture and expose collagen, platelets spring into action to form a blood clot at the damaged site. Now, a new report in the April 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals how those life-threatening clots - a leading cause of death in the United States, Europe and other industrialized countries - get an early grip. The discovery might offer a new way to fight clot formation before it can even begin, according to the researchers.
Electro Scientific Industries (Nasdaq: ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, announced that Lund University in Sweden has selected ESI's LaserMill micromachining system for use in a cutting-edge, scientific application. The system will be utilized by Lund University researchers in the production of micro-wires and circuitry used to combat the effects of Parkinson's disease.
A research team lead by Karl Deisseroth in the bioengineering department at Stanford University has developed a technique to systematically characterize disease circuits in the brain. By precisely controlling individual components of the circuit implicated in Parkinson's disease, the team has identified a specific group of cells as direct targets of deep brain stimulation (DBS), a Parkinson's treatment.
A global analysis of brain proteins over a 10-week period in a mouse model of Huntington Disease has revealed some new insights into this complex neurodegenerative disorder. For example, profound changes (comparable to those seen in late-stage HD) actually occur well before any disease symptoms show up, and most of the changes are confined to a specific stage during disease progression.
A nationwide appeal for people to donate their brains to research and help discover a cure for Parkinson's disease is launched today by the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS). One in 500 people is affected by the condition and the shortage of brain donors is hindering scientists in finding a cure.
Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Boyd Professor, and Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair of Retinal Degenerative Diseases Research at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, presented new research findings showing that an omega three fatty acid in the diet protects brain cells by preventing the misfolding of a protein resulting from a gene mutation in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Huntington's.
Cancer that spreads to other organs finds a particularly inviting hideout in the brain, where these metastases are usually far harder to treat than they are in other locations. Two researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center discussed ways to more successfully target these tumors in their "sanctuary" at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009 in Denver.
As early as one week after beginning treatment for brain tumors, a new imaging analysis method was able to predict which patients would live longer, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found.
The risks posed to babies born to mothers taking anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) could be reduced with pre-conception counselling according to national charity, Epilepsy Action. A study released this week shows a link between the taking the AED sodium valproate while pregnant and lowered IQ in children. The charity warns that women are not getting the pre-conception counselling they need to help avoid such risks.
Like most teenagers who have stared death in the face and survived, cancer changed 24-year-old Ilsa Richter's life forever. Diagnosed with a brain tumour at 16, Richter is among the growing number of young cancer survivors between the ages of 15 and 29.
Jesse Knowles sat on the sofa listening to music in his specially built living room at his Chapel Hill home. A 15-year-old freshman at Montgomery Central High School, Jesse found out a few months ago he has an aggressive brain cancer.
In acute ischemic stroke, the blood supply to the brain is restricted. Initially, brain cells die from lack of oxygen. In addition, ischemia activates harmful inflammatory processes in the affected area of the brain. For the first time, scientists at the Neurology Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital have shown that certain immune cells in the blood inhibit inflammation after a stroke.
Avon Lake High School grad Keith Concar wanted to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, but while volunteering near New Orleans in 2006, he suffered a devastating accident.
LAST August a 26-year-old dancer named Liu Yan was supposed to give the performance of her life at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Today, after recuperating for more than six months at No. 306 Military Hospital in Beijing, she is back home, adjusting to life in a wheelchair. VIDEO LINK.
For 11-year-old Daria Eden, it was a chore to do the exercises that would help overcome the paralysis on her left side that remained after a benign tumor was removed from her brain. That was until about a year ago, when she started working with Mr. Spock, a 6-year-old Cardigan Welsh corgi.
Cody Unser doesn't remember what muscle movement felt like in her legs before she was struck with a neurological disorder that left her paralyzed from the chest down at age 12.
Shawn Ritchhart always thought of himself as kind of a loner. However, after a rodeo accident in 2004 paralyzed him, the 35-year-old is telling others with disabilities to not be a "hermit."
A soldier who lost part of his leg in the Iraq war Friday received a high honor from the military. Staff Sergeant Nathan Reed was given the Bronze Star for meritorious service. The Army says his selfless acts extend beyond the streets of Baghdad. VIDEO LINK.
Lt. Col. Greg Gadson is not a bionic man, but he does have a new set of powerful knees.
Gadson, an Iraq War veteran, was wounded in 2007 by a roadside bomb and lost both legs above the knees. This week, he became the first person to receive the latest version of battery-powered prosthetic knees.
The horrors of war have often led to medical benefits in peacetime. The Civil War spread the use of anesthesia. World War II helped to start the antibiotics revolution. And now, the Iraq War and its deadly roadside bombs are advancing the development of prosthetics for those who have lost limbs.
In some ways, Von Ferber and Kirk Arnold are mirror images of each other. Both are big, physically active men. Both love to ride motorcycles. And both are missing their right hands and use prosthetics as substitutes.
They rolled to the microphone in wheelchairs, limped up on crutches and walked on prosthetics all to ask the same thing: Please don't close the hospital where they have been treated for years.
If you look at the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's website, you would see recall after recall of toys, some of which contain lead. Now lawmakers have had enough of this and want to give parents a heads up about what's in their child's toy.
Umpire Ed Hickox likely will be out for a week after sustaining a concussion during Saturday's game between the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees.
Prosecution of shaken baby cases in this region over the past nine years shows that some defendents got suspended sentences and probation while others received years in prison.
Tick ... tick ... tick ... tick. Four seconds. That's all it takes to shake a baby to the point of brain damage, said local child abuse expert Dr. Ann Springer, citing studies. "Shaken baby (syndrome) is very traumatic," she said. "It has serious consequences and it's well-known that more child abuse fatalities in younger children are from head injuries."
With proper management and registered nurses on campus, the school absenteeism rate for children with asthma can be reduced to that of non-asthmatic children, according to a new study published in the journal CHEST, the official publication of the American College of Chest Physicians.
David Van Sickle is looking for a few pioneering asthmatics. He wants to attach a GPS device to their inhalers before they boldly go out into a spring world filled with allergens.
"Basically, as a result of the beating to my head, I suffered a traumatic brain injury. My left eye socket had been crushed in, and what the doctors had told me was that the force of the blow was so strong that the eyeball exploded into thin plates of my orbital floor."
My phone rang in the middle of the night. I was told that David was dead. My heart literally stopped beating as my whole world went dark. I could not breathe. In that instant, my husband's life was gone, my life was forever altered, and the safe and carefree childhood of our three little girls was shattered.
Corticosteroids are powerful drugs used to treat inflammatory conditions such as asthma and other chronic diseases which has made them among the most widely prescribed drugs. Although the anti-inflammatory drugs offer swift relief to the patient, they can carry with them serious side effects.
Up to two million Americans suffer from DVT each year and yet 74 percent of Americans don’t even know what DVT is.
DVT, or deep-vein thrombosis, occurs when a blood clot (thrombus) forms and partially or completely blocks blood flow inside a deep vein, typically in the calf or thigh.
After more than three decades advocating and providing services to the disabled, David Hingsburger suffered a "catastrophic illness" a little more than three years ago that rendered his legs unable to support him. Now seeing life from a wheelchair, Hingsburger, 56, said the identity he projected to those he came in contact with changed immediately.
A collaboration between more than 70 researchers across the globe has uncovered nine new genes on the X chromosome that, when knocked-out, lead to learning disabilities. The international team studied almost all X chromosome genes in 208 families with learning disabilities - the largest screen of this type ever reported.
In the past year, demand for services at the Tommy Nobis Center - a nonprofit that provides job training to the disabled - spiked more than 30 percent.
The state's leading autism advocacy organization, Autism New Jersey (formerly
COSAC), encourages all residents to help spread autism awareness during April, National Autism Awareness Month.
Older people are less likely to receive drug treatment after a stroke compared to younger people, despite the fact that treatment is equally effective, finds a study published on
http://www.bmj.com.
National Stroke Association and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the launch of Talk About TIA!, a new educational initiative to raise awareness of an under-recognized but serious health risk transient ischemic attack (TIA).
UCLA has been awarded a four-year, $3.89 million grant from the American Heart Association to establish a new research center focused on improving the health of disadvantaged minority patients at risk for stroke and heart attack.
AMONG the hopefuls who sat for the the Malaysian University Selection Inventory
(Munsyl) special assessment test to enter the apex-status Universiti Sains Malaysia
(USM), wheelchair-bound Khu Li Huang stood out as a personification of grit and determination.
April 9, 2009, marked the 15th annual Disability Awareness Day at the State Capitol. The event drew over 600 participants made up of Disability Organizations and People with Disabilities. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics approximately one in five Oklahomans has some form of a disability.
Advocates for the developmentally disabled describe it as a scary choice. In a bid to keep community care homes and programs operating, they have joined with state officials to identify $100 million in budget cuts.
The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQatar) and key partmers yesterday announced plans to establish an independent Center for Assistive Technology in Doha that will be dedicated to helping people with disabilities through information and communications technologies.
Thanks in part to a new program run by his school in conjunction with Pheasant Run Resort & Spa, Artz and five other classmates with learning disabilities are indeed getting a taste of grown-up responsibilities. Each weekday morning, with vocational coordinator Donna Wisely and job coaches Laura Testo and Paula
Marzullo, the group heads to Pheasant Run to work at a variety of jobs.
Seeing-eye dogs have long been used to help their owners around town. But a Minneapolis nonprofit trains loyal canines to do so much more for people with disabilities -- such as opening doors, making bank deposits and helping them get dressed.
The ninth annual Galveston Brain Injury Conference, set for April 29 through May 1 at Moody Gardens, will explore how to help people with traumatic brain injuries and other cognitive disabilities who are affected by natural disasters.
Advocates for children with disabilities have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Economic Security, claiming officials acted improperly in eliminating funding for a special program.
This was announced by spokespersons at the Shafallah Centre yesterday during the inauguration of its media centre. The media centre for the forum will later be used as a computer laboratory by the students at the centre.
Shafallah, which is named after the flower of the Caper plant, which is native to the Mediterranean region, provides comprehensive services and care to individuals with developmental learning challenges.
Erika Bogan of Concord, N.C., lives by a simple motto: 'Anything is possible.' For the 28-year-old single mother of three paralyzed from the waist down in a 2002 car wreck, it's true. Bogan was crowned miss Wheelchair North Carolina on Saturday following a short pageant held in Asheville for the first time.
Jorge Grajales removed his prosthetic arm extensions. His focus was on gripping the basketball, so he
couldn't look directly at the basket. He twisted and heaved the ball. Somehow the
12-year-old's foul shot went in. VIDEO LINK.
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couldn't hear or speak, yet she found a language with which to describe her inner world. Hawkins Bolden
couldn't see, yet his statues stare at you with haunted eyes. And both Royal Robertson and Ike Morgan, isolated by mental illness, communicated through paintings what they
couldn't express any other way. VIDEO LINK.
James Robert Kennedy, 62, of "The Electric City" of Anderson in Upstate South Carolina. As long as anyone can remember, he held a transistor radio to his ear. It tunes unknown comfort into a man whose mental abilities leave him unable to read, write or tell time.
Sonja and Jerry Cornish of Richmond said they were devastated to learn their then 2-year-old son Ian was diagnosed with autism, but their son has come a long way since he began receiving services at the School of Bright Promise.
Allegheny County has more people with handicapped-parking permits than any other county in the state, and some lawmakers want to tighten the rules for issuing them to weed out possible abuse.
Seated along a Mediterranean-inspired esplanade at Lakeland's Southeastern University, surrounded by palms and bougainvillea and inquisitive squirrels, Cody Staley adopts the intellectual habits of his peers.
A week-long photo exhibition featuring day-to-day activities of the people of disabilities and their efforts to overcome difficulties opened in northern Thanh Hoa province on April 18 to mark the Day for the Disabled.
From taking to the skies to performing in their own rock bands, youth with special needs did not have any boundaries on Saturday during the fifth annual Day in the Sky event at Watsonville Municipal Airport.
The special cushioned surface of the new Miracle League ball field was being installed at Frank Brown Park last week, bringing the county one step closer to offering the thrill of playing baseball to about 5,000 mentally and physically handicapped Bay County youngsters.
A national disability group ranks Indianapolis as the most disability-friendly community in the country, but advocates say the city can't get complacent.
In sports, competitors can become so bogged down by the pursuit of titles or statistics that they often lose sight of what is truly important. The simple act of competing and being part of a team moves into the shadows in place of the glorious pursuit of stardom.
The Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs are overemphasizing mild traumatic brain injury among combat troops at the expense of other medical problems that are going untreated, two Army mental health researchers say in an article that has raised intense objections from other scientists studying the condition.
"Let's say you take Jell-O, in a container," said Dr. Nirav Patel, a neurologist on staff at Memorial Medical Center of Long Beach since 1997. "You throw that on the ground. If you actually had a microchip inside that Jell-O, it would keep moving around, even though the outside container stops moving."
Brad Ebner lives for sports. He continues to find ways to make his love for football part of his life-even if he can't play on the field anymore. When Ebner sustained a massive brain injury on the football field in 2006, his dream of a football career didn't end. It took a new turn.
Two years ago, Carol Stanley's life changed
forever.Stanley, the mother of an Auburn University student and an investigator for the Beasley, Allen law firm in Montgomery, suddenly found herself in the unlikely role of victim's rights advocate and crusader to educate the public about traumatic brain injury, known as TBI.
Finding love against the odds is one thing, but when one person can't walk or talk and the other lives in England, there are plenty of reasons why it might not work out.
Jason Stanley woke up in his hospital room and tried to sit up. He remembers being told that staples were being put in his head before he blacked out for the second time within hours of being brutally attacked just off the Auburn University campus.
In acute ischemic stroke, the blood supply to the brain is restricted. Initially, brain cells die from lack of oxygen. In addition, ischemia activates harmful inflammatory processes in the affected area of the brain. For the first time, scientists at the Neurology Clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital have shown that certain immune cells in the blood inhibit inflammation after a stroke.
Beyond answering the "whys" that arise in considering Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery, Hunt Christensen offers her unique perspective in this comprehensive book. LIFE WITH A BATTERY-OPERATED BRAIN is designed to be a highly readable guide for people with Parkinson's disease (PD), exploring the benefits of this particular surgery on many motor symptoms of the disease.
For the second consecutive year during ALS Awareness Month, The ALS Association's
"ALS Across America" campaign will recognize people throughout the United States living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for their courageous battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Hypothermia has been used in the treatment of head injury for many years. Encouraging results from small trials and laboratory studies led to renewed interest in the area and some larger trials.
New research suggests that neurodegenerative diseases are neither diffuse nor random but specifically target large-scale functional networks in the human brain. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, may drive a new generation of network-based strategies for diagnosing and monitoring neurodegenerative diseases.
Scientists have found evidence to suggest that 'small molecule' drugs could offer the first effective chemotherapy for childhood low-grade
astrocytomas, improving the prognosis for hundreds diagnosed with the disease - reveals research published today in The Journal of Pathology.
Piera Pasinelli, Ph.D., co-director of the Frances and Joseph Weinberg Unit for ALS Research at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University was recently awarded a Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation grant to identify why drug therapies that showed promise in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(ALS) mouse models have proven unsuccessful in human clinical trials.
The Epilepsy Therapy Project today announced that more than 25 emerging companies as well as leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical investors and industry executives will gather to focus on preclinical and clinical development strategies and opportunities at the Epilepsy Pipeline Conference 2009.
By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 percent, compared to 45 percent for the scorpion venom alone.
Epidemiological evidence has suggested a link between beta2-agonists and increases in asthma mortality. There has been much debate about possible causal links for this association, and whether regular (daily) long-acting beta2-agonists are safe when used alone or in conjunction with inhaled corticosteroids.
A new nationwide telephone survey of 1,001 patients found that while most asthma patients know the risks of "uncontrolled asthma," they misinterpret asthma control, not realizing that asthma is a chronic disease that requires long-term therapy - even when asthma symptoms are not present.
For the first time in the United States, a stroke patient has been intravenously injected with his own bone marrow stem cells as part of a research trial at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
Hospitals participating in an American Heart Association program encouraging them to follow prescribed treatment guidelines are improving their care of heart attack and stroke patients and preventing repeat hospitalizations, according to recent studies, the Wall Street Journal reports.
An article in the May edition of The Lancet Neurology written by Dr Heleen M den
Hertog, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and collaborators from Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht and Meander MC, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, points out findings from the PAIS study concluding that stroke early treatment with paracetamol for stroke patients with a body temperature of 37 to 39 degrees Celsius could improve functional outcome.
Ageism in the NHS means that older stroke patients are not getting the same level of care as younger patients, reveals research in Postgraduate Medical Journal.
A 9-month-old Dallas boy who suffered devastating brain damage in what police say was a brutal case of child abuse is not likely to live more than a few years, and certainly not into adulthood, one of his doctors testified Thursday.
He's Walter Reed's bionic man, a wounded warrior who walks on a pair of new battery-powered prosthetic legs outfitted with some of the most high-tech gizmos around. VIDEO LINK.
Version two of the world's first and only battery-powered artificial leg is designed to restore dignity, mobility and independence to soldiers who've lost the ability to walk while fighting for their country. VIDEO LINK.
It's a mystery that has frustrated doctors for decades. After suffering a concussion, patients often complain of long-lasting effects, including pain, sleep disruption, memory problems and mood swings. Yet brain scans typically show no structural damage.
Australian cyclist Robbie McEwen revealed on Thursday that he suffered concussion but did not fracture any ribs after falling in the McEwen gets a concussion, but no broken bones in the Scheldeprijs pile-up in
Schoten, Belgium.
The American Lung Association will release the results of its annual State of the Air report during an embargoed virtual press conference to be held via webinar and teleconference at 2:00 PM (EDT) on Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
One in every eight or nine Aussie kids has asthma. That's one of the highest rates in the world, but despite our high rate of childhood asthma, most asthma info is aimed at adults, not kids - until now.
A relatively low dietary intake of vitamins A and C boosts the risk of asthma, suggests a systematic analysis of the available evidence, published ahead of print in the journal Thorax.
Lung transplant offers hope of a longer life for patients with end-stage respiratory diseases such as emphysema and cystic fibrosis, with some surviving for years following surgery.
A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to assess the effectiveness of treating sleep disorders in adults with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Results indicate that treatment may result in the objective resolution of the sleep disorder without improvements in daytime sleepiness or neuropsychological function.
Mild brain injuries - once considered an under-recognized problem in returning military troops - are being overdiagnosed because the government is using soft criteria instead of hard medical evidence, an Army doctor and two other officials contend.
An Oklahoma man who lost an eye and a leg in Iraq says the giant insurance company AIG refused to provide him a new plastic leg and fought to keep from paying for a wheelchair or glasses for the eye in which he has 30 percent vision.
To all the New Yorkers who have brought on the indignation of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, add one more: Michael A. Harris, a disability-rights advocate and journalist with a tape recorder that went off at the wrong time.
The Chicago Chapter of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is hosting Mother's Day Shopping for the Cause event at Eye4Style on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Linda
Mastandrea, Director of Paralympic Sport and Accessibility for Chicago 2016 Olympic & Paralympic bid and World & National Paralympic Champion, will be present as a special guest speaker.
Advocates for closing Texas' state schools for the mentally disabled and parents committed to keeping them open sparred at the Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers debated nearly a dozen measures to overhaul the care system.
In March, I visited a number of schools in Hoima, Kapchorwa and Nebbi districts. The purpose was to assess how far children with physical disabilities can access schools and facilities in these schools.
People who are overweight or obese in young adulthood and middle-age are at elevated risk of being disabled in their later years, a new study suggests.
Lodi will get its first year-round playing field with the Lodi City Council's approval to add synthetic turf to the Grape Bowl and make it compliant Americans With Disability Act in a more than $2 million project.
For Sandi Webber, there's no such thing as an easy workout. When she's done at a machine, Webber, 57, of Wexford, like anyone else who is disabled, can't simply hop off and head over to the next station. When she has gone to gyms in the past, getting a convenient workout was a challenge.
The Penn-Trafford School District will use federal stimulus funding to bolster three schools that qualify as "low-income" and buy special-education materials.
Staff members at The Kennedy Center Inc., a nonprofit community rehabilitation organization, are settling into the group’s new home at 7 Research Drive, a space that has allowed the group to grow by adding five programs that serve people with mental and physical disabilities.
Mr. Williams, 20, of North Versailles, was one of five disabled young people in the region who were asked to take part in the display, sponsored by the University, Community & Leaders for Individuals with Disabilities Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Scientists have identified a previously unknown connection between two genetic variants and an increased risk of stroke, providing strong evidence for the existence of specific genes that help explain the genetic component of stroke. The research was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health and by several other NIH institutes and centers.
About four million South Africans are living with disabilities, according to the
CSIR, yet only a very small percentage of them are gainfully employed.
TO empower persons with disabilities (PWDs), the Cebu City Federation of Persons with Disabilities
(CCFPWD) will host the first-ever Cebu City Paragames.
Responding to as situation in Atalissa, Iowa, where 21 mentally disabled Texas men lived in a dilapidated house while they worked at a nearby turkey processing plant operated by Texas-based Henry's Turkey Service, an Iowa House committee has approved a measure that would require registration for houses that shelter disabled workers.
The celebratory mood of those who closed the institutions that once housed people of all levels of disability needs to be peppered with a large dose of reality.
On Tuesday, April 21st at 10:00 a.m. a first-ever, independent survey of over 33,000 households will be released. Join us to learn specific details of the survey, which was initiated by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation and conducted by the University of New Mexico’s Center for Development and Disability. More than 30 experts from fourteen leading universities and medical centers and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set the parameters for the research.
Today, hundreds of people around the region came to southeast Ohio to do just that at Lake Vesuvius for the 6th Annual
Wheelin' Sportsmen's Fishing Day. The folks are from sixteen nursing centers and group homes in the area. VIDEO LINK.
A howling north wind pushed the wind-chill temperature to 40 degrees below zero as Dan Davison struggled to get to his feet after slipping on a frozen pond and knocking himself unconscious overnight.
Van der Klift and her husband Norman Kunc have been working 25 years to help give people with disabilities the chance to take a rightful place in schools, workplaces, and communities.
In federal court Thursday, the Arizona Center for Disability Law filed a class action lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) to stop the state from carrying out millions of dollars in budget cuts, which it claims violates federal and state law.
Viet Nam is striving to reduce illiteracy rates among people with disabilities, affecting nearly three million residents nationwide, by putting into effect a new Disability Law.
Edith Prentiss, who uses an electric wheelchair, took a bus, three trains, and a ferry to get from Washington Heights to Staten Island for a Metropolitan Transit Authority public hearing on fare hikes and service cuts.
An exhibition of artwork by students with autism will open tonight, 6-8 p.m., at the Angela Schuler Gallery in Front Row Center, 121 E. Front St. in downtown Traverse City.
It was just a school assignment, but it set Lyons Township High School senior Carrie Mulderink on a path to change, not just for her, but for the world around her.
Everyone has abilities. Even those who are labeled disabled. This is the message of activist and author Judith Snow, who has spent her entire life almost entirely immobile in a wheelchair.
The Office for Students with Disabilities is sending 33 people, 29 of which are students with disabilities, overseas in a trip that is the first of its kind for the university.
The Justice Department today announced a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the city of Philadelphia to greatly improve accessibility for individuals with mobility disabilities at the city's 1,200 polling places. Today's settlement is the first settlement by the Justice Department with a city focused solely on accessible polling places.
The collapse of SemGroup has hit many area charities and non-profit groups hard.
Semgroup donated millions of dollars to them. The loss of that big corporate sponsor, combined with other factors, has led to the cancellation of a summer camp for kids with disabilities.
Toddlers of moms who took the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy had lower IQs than the children of women who used other anti-seizure medicines, according to a new study.
A new study is the first to assess the effectiveness of treating sleep disorders in adults with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Results indicate that treatment may result in the objective resolution of the sleep disorder without improvements in daytime sleepiness or neuropsychological function.
The man's face looks sad on the computer screen. His eyebrows are knitted together, angled up slightly in the middle. His eyelids are droopy. And his lips are starting to pull down at the corners.
TRAUMATIC brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability every year. It is a major cause of death and disability worldwide and the leading killer of people under the age of 45.
Every time you pay a traffic ticket in Washington state, a portion of that fine goes to a fund that helps people with traumatic brain injuries. But with state lawmakers in the final weeks of balancing the budget, much of the brain injury money is ending up elsewhere. AUDIO LINK.
An act establishing a Student Athlete Sports Injury Commission will not pass this year because Senator Richard Moore thinks we don't need a sports injury commission.
Several young men with special needs recently participated in a hunting trip donated free of charge by local companies specifically tailored to their circumstances.
Actress Natasha Richardson's sudden death from a seemingly minor head injury is a big wake-up call for parents. If a healthy 45-year-old woman could die after falling on the bunny hill at a ski resort, what about our kids?
An international team of scientists from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, the University of North Carolina and several institutions in China have explained how a gene alteration can lead to the development of a type of brain cancer, and they have identified a compound that could staunch the cancer's growth.
The good news is more children with a condition that puts them at risk for stroke are undergoing ultrasound screening. The bad news is only a limited number of labs offer this test.
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) reported preclinical study results showing that an investigational H1N1 virus-like particle
(VLP) vaccine based on the 1918 Spanish influenza strain protected against both the Spanish flu and a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain.
Arbor Vita Corporation (AVC), a biopharmaceutical company developing both diagnostics and therapeutics, announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its
AVantage(TM) A/H5N1 Flu Test.
Transoma Medical, Inc., manufacturer of Sleuth AT-TM, the only wireless, automated implantable cardiac monitoring system with programmable and frequent electrocardiogram
(ECG) sampling, announced the first enrollment and implant in a long-term study to monitor patients who have suffered a cryptogenic stroke (of unknown origin) to determine if atrial fibrillation (AF) is present.
The number of children with a certain blood disorder undergoing an ultrasound to help prevent stroke is up significantly in the past 10 years since the publication of a major study showing its benefits.
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is awarding the 2009 Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize to Matthew Flaherty, MD, with the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center for his research in stroke treatment. Flaherty will receive the award during the AAN’s 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle, held April 25 through May 2, 2009. Flaherty is a member of the American Academy of Neurology.
A Japanese company has created a robotic exoskeleton that is designed to help make disabled people mobile again, enabling them to stand up, walk and even climb stairs.
During the development of its high quality wheelchair accessible conversion of the Kia Sedona, Brotherwood Automobility Ltd. called on the expertise of Unwin Safety Systems with whom they share a long standing working relationship. In recent years, powered wheelchair manufacturers have had to respond to the demands of clients for greater versatility and mobility, resulting in an inevitable weight increase.
While they don't look like R2-D2 or the other robotic stars of the silver screen, assistive robotic devices being designed to help stroke and spinal cord injury survivors with rehabilitation could be an even bigger hit.
Soon our nation will welcome home a surge of brave men and women from Iraq and Afghanistan. The number of troops with paralyzing injuries will be in the hundreds rather than the thousands, as from previous wars such as Vietnam.
People with diabetes increasingly are cutting back on doctor visits, treatment and testing during the economic recession, thus risking complications like amputation, vision loss, stroke and death, according to an Associated Press analysis, the AP/New York Daily News reports.
An already depleted wide receiver position suffered another blow on Tuesday as Terrance Toliver suffered a concussion and is questionable for Saturday's spring game.
Two-year-old Trissdon MacLeod held onto his mother, his head slightly tilted, as the jurors viewed him. One juror gave the child a little wave. Trissdon didn't respond.
Doctors at Schneider Children's Hospital say for the first time in 25 years, the hospital has created a campaign focused on shaken baby syndrome. They say the reason it comes now is due to fear that stress from the economy may add to an increase in this type of child abuse.
People suffering from chronic asthma might have a new treatment option that allows them to manage their condition with a single prescribed inhaler that contains two medicines, according to a new review.
A nationwide study of adults with asthma reveals no benefit for treatment for silent acid reflux, which long has been thought to be the culprit for some severe asthma symptoms such as coughing, wheezing and breathlessness. The findings, which could save $10 million annually in unwarranted prescriptions, are reported in the April 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cornell researchers have discovered key properties in coronaviruses that help explain how these viruses invade their hosts and cross species barriers. The SARS virus, for example, originated in bats, jumped to civets (weasel-like mammals) in Chinese markets and then to humans. Other coronaviruses cause the common cold and croup in humans.
A group of UQ scientists, from the Centre for Magnetic Resonance and the Department of Physics, have successfully developed Australia's first hyperpolarised helium gas for use in human
MRIs.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America:New nationwide survey of 1,001 patients found most asthma patients know the risks of 'uncontrolled asthma,' but misinterpret asthma control, not realizing that asthma is a chronic disease that requires long-term therapy - even when symptoms are not present.
And just last week in Toronto, the debate began again with the case of 2-month-old Kaylee Vitelli at the Hospital for Sick Children, whose parents were told she could not live without a respirator and wanted to donate her heart to another baby at the hospital. But when the respirator was removed to make way for the transplant, Kaylee kept breathing.
Medicaid decertifies a patient as soon as their acute illness improves, forcing them out of acute care hospitals. But in Alaska there is no facility to discharge these patients to. VIDEO LINK.
People suffering from chronic asthma might have a new treatment option that allows them to manage their condition with a single prescribed inhaler that contains two medicines, according to a new review.
Giving a high dose of paracetamol to stroke patients with raised body temperatures appears to improve their chance of recovering without serious disability, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
Bryan Evans could not attend his English class last semester. The classroom door was unlocked, but that did not matter because the building doors were out of his reach.
Celia Soto loves the smile on her grandson's face when he sits on a swing. Thanks to special equipment at Mary Henley Park in Hemet, Soto can see that smile every day.
The statistics on autism are worrisome. One in every 150 children is diagnosed with the disability, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means 1.5 million Americans have some form of autism, and that number is on the rise.
The most disabling aspect of Tourette syndrome is that in 90% of cases, it exists in conjunction with another disorder. The most frequent co-occurring condition in people with Tourette is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), though the cause of this association is uncertain. Having one disorder can be disabling enough, but having two means coping with more than twice the disability.
Two months after receiving approval from senior management, the university is moving forward with developing a strategic plan to address disability access management for the campus.
For years, Margarette Pang struggled to turn the letters and numbers around to make sense. She didn't seek special treatment for herself, but when she saw her daughter facing the same struggles, she decided to leap into action.
James Nunez, 49, who has cerebral palsy and learning difficulties, says he knows one thing all too well - the value of $20.67. That's the amount California will cut from
Nuñez's $899 monthly disability check July 1 because of state budget woes. VIDEO LINK.
It's been more than 25 years since the namesake of Wild Bill's Coffeeshop died, but his memory was the reason for a celebration at the University of Iowa School of Social Work.
This weekend, Abilities Expo New York Metro will offer hundreds of new products and services as well as education sessions dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities, senior citizens, their families, as well as healthcare and education professionals.
Carolyn Clark Beedle in just three years tripled the income, budget and education programs of Assistance Dogs of the West, a Santa Fe nonprofit organization.
Preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games have "kick-started" intensive work to bring Russia's national legislation into further alignment with international standards.
A supermarket is to start selling disability aids for the first time this week. Asda will stock urine bottles, raised lavatory seats, and walking sticks from Saturday, in what it says is an attempt to "break the taboos" surrounding their sale.
A proposal to construct two group homes for adults with developmental disabilities faces opposition from a neighboring private school and some nearby residents.
For people with autism, facial expressions can be mysterious, even frightening. New tools are emerging to help them learn to decipher faces and thus better handle the social interactions they find difficult.
What is People First Language? It focuses on the idea that people with disabilities are people first, and their disability comes second . . . or third. Or fourth. Or on the bottom of the list.
For too long people with disabilities have been seen as 'special,' as different, as a totally separate group. People with disabilities have been delegated to the special class, the little bus, to the separate program.
New York's top federal law enforcement officer says the new Yankee Stadium is one of the more accessible sporting venues in the nation for those with disabilities.
The state agency that oversees programs for people with developmental disabilities has no plans for any litigation against guardians, according to the attorney handling much of the Beatrice State Developmental Center work.
It's a great feeling for parents to see their child shine on the sports field. And now metro parents who have kids with disabilities can feel that same sense of pride thanks to a national program with roots in Kansas City. VIDEO LINK.
Todd Lollar's cerebral palsy and speech impediment did not keep him from earning his bachelor and master's degrees. It did not keep him from continuing to search for a job after experiencing five years of discrimination from multiple businesses.
Winston Churchill once said, "There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." Turns out, the movement of a horse is pretty good for muscles, too, and now Horses of Hope, a nonprofit horseback riding facility in Buffalo, has a new tool to make working the muscles of individuals in wheelchairs safer.
The slumping real-estate market is making it easier for the Franklin County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to move from tenant to owner.
They will move soon into Park Place Children's Home, in Jeffersonville, a 1962-built, ranch-style house smack out of "The Brady Bunch." New Hope Services is opening it, considering it its duty to do right by these kids.
Employees with disabilities have been trained to work side-by-side with other team members - with the same productivity goals, earning the same pay. Disabilities range from autism and retardation to hearing and physical impairments.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs cut the risk of strokes by about a fifth, according to a pooled analysis of 24 past clinical studies involving 165,000 people.
Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have identified a synthetic compound which appears to be able to stop the replication of influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley reports, that is starting to change. One remarkable leap in technology is called the DEKA arm and it's just one of the breakthroughs in a $100 million Pentagon program called "Revolutionizing Prosthetics." VIDEO LINK.
A Plano West varsity player suffered bruising of the brain and fractured facial bones after he was hit by a baseball while not wearing a helmet in a batting cage. VIDEO LINK.
Wounded warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have a unique program available to them, one which includes dog hair, wags and the occasional wet kiss.
Jennie Watson leans over her 15-year-old daughter, Sidney, carefully feeding small bites of scrambled eggs into the girl's mouth....Sidney's scalp was torn back in the multiple-rollover accident. She lost two pints of blood by the time she arrived at St. Patrick Hospital, and had suffered what's known as a 'shear' injury to her brain. She also snapped the humerus in her left arm clean through.
Liying Zhang, an associate professor of biomedical engineering in
WSU's College of Engineering, has received a $214,306 award from the United States Department of Defense to develop a computer simulation tool that accurately models mild traumatic brain injury in the human head.
The statistics are stark and sobering - and for the uninitiated (which is to say most of us), startling. Epilepsy in America is as common as breast cancer, and takes as many lives. A mysterious and widely misunderstood affliction, epilepsy is a disorder in which the brain produces sudden bursts of electrical energy that can interfere with a person's consciousness, movements or sensations.
Epilepsy entered our lives more than 25 years ago, and unless things change, I fear that outcomes for families in the future won't be any better than they were for us.
A little more than a year after he suffered a significant brain injury in an ambush in Iraq, Josh L. Whitfield of Waterford received the Bronze Star for his heroic efforts to protect Iraqi schoolchildren and his fellow U.S. soldiers even after he was hit.
The morning of Sept. 13, 2007, started like any other for Denise
Vaillant. She strapped her 3½-year-old son William into his child safety seat and headed to ShopRite to pick up some groceries.
Traumatic brain injury causes tunnel vision. Not in the physical loss of the peripheral field, but in the sense of being thrust suddenly into a narrow dark place and not being able to see the way out. So said former Cincinnati Police Sgt. and East Palestine resident Bryce Bezdek in his address "Striving Toward The Light: Navigating the Twisted Tunnel of TBI" as keynote speaker at the recent Northern Kentucky Third Annual Traumatic Brain Injury Conference.
Nanobiotix, an emerging nanomedicine company, announced today that an independent preclinical study has validated the applicability of using its nanoparticles-nanoPDT-to treat glioblastoma
multiforme, one of the most prevalent brain tumors.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have designed tiny RNA molecules that shut off the gene that causes Huntington's disease without damaging that gene's healthy counterpart, which maintains the health and vitality of neurons.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a specialized type of an MRI brain scan. fMRI is able to detect the specific brain activation/deactivation patterns that are directly correlated to the regulation of the
brain's blood flow.
Ministrokes also known as transient ischemic attacks have long been recognized as a marker of subsequent strokes. How Minnesota hospitals are treating these high-risk individuals has been the focus of recent research. A study conducted by investigators from the University of Minnesota Stroke Research Center and Minnesota Department of Health reported that one new stroke could be prevented with early diagnosis and appropriate medical treatment in every seven patients presenting with ministrokes to the hospital.
A stroke sometimes causes permanent damage. Survivors have impaired balance. It not only causes discomfort on a daily basis, but could also prevent people from performing essential tasks. Lack of balance also increases the risk of debilitating falls.
Hands-free fingernail polish, a Braille keyboard, a guitar pick for someone missing a hand, a baby carrier for a mother with cerebral palsy. These are some of the projects created by students at Northridge High School. Science teacher Beth Allaway first had them experience what
it's like to live with a disability.
The North Pole has now been made wheelchair accessible. On April 11, 2009 a disabled parking sign was raised at the North Pole on the 100th anniversary of the first successful polar expedition. David Shannon became the first person in world history with quadriplegia and in a wheelchair to reach the Pole.
Nick Perry had what he wanted, a job with more responsibility and more money that would let him pay for a trip to Europe before he settled down in a career.
Out to enjoy a four-wheeling trip with friends, fun was cut short for a Vacaville man when events took a nasty turn, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and hundreds of miles from home.
The money will help pay expenses for 17-year-old Ryan Lambert, who's being treated at Scott & White Hospital for a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down. VIDEO LINK.
In real life, Cyberdyne is a Japanese robotics company, and HAL is Hybrid Assistive Limb, its full-body, "Iron Man"-like exoskeleton designed to help people with weak muscles or disabilities.
Six-year-old Rockford resident Cameron Poole, paralyzed from the waist down from spina bifida, holds up his NASTAR bronze medal and smiles with pride as if it was earned in the last Winter Olympics on the downhill course.
By the walls of ancient temples, just as the morning sun dapples the jungle floor and birds sing, survivors of Cambodia's killing fields and minefields drop their crutches, put aside their artificial limbs or blindly grope for their instruments - and then play music that can break the heart.
As a 10-year-old, Peter Fenn idolized golfing legend Arnold Palmer to the point that he developed a three-hole course on five acres of land owned by his grandparents, complete with wooden stakes and towels to mark the holes and, he said,
'unputtable greens.'
Shelley Durrant shrugged her left shoulder and an electric motor whirred, bending her elbow and sending her hand up toward the ceiling. MacJulian 'Mac' Lang, the Northwest clinical director for Advanced Arm Dynamics, quickly adjusted a harness and sensor pads to make it easier for the Bellfountain woman to move her prosthetic limbs.
As an army of Howell South Little League players entered Deerfield Park for the first time this season, many strained their heads to catch a glimpse of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brian Brennan, who leaned against his gray pickup truck in the packed parking lot.
Amidst the tranquility of a fishing trip at the Rose River Farm in Madison County, a wounded warrior says he almost feels "semi-normal again." VIDEO LINK.
The San Francisco Giants are optimistic that pitcher Joe Martinez will recover relatively quickly from a concussion and three small fractures sustained when he was hit in the head by a line drive.
The Aggie family is home to nearly 1,000 student organizations dedicated to service. Even with all the goodwill the Aggie family has given over the years, there's room for improvement when it comes to Aggies serving a more specific portion of the Texas community, such as those who benefit from Texas Hearing and Service Dogs.
"Dog for a walk" is Smith Pruitt's mantra. The autistic 11-year-old boy points to Aubrey, a yellow Labrador retriever, as he repeats faster, "Dog for a walk." Aubrey is an autism service dog and can go anywhere with Smith.
It's an image forever seared into Catherine Sanders's mind: her infant son Ryan, bruised and hooked up to life support, struggling to survive. This month, people in the Washington region, as well as in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, will see that image, too, an experience the Manassas mother hopes will raise awareness about shaken baby syndrome.
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure is associated with poor asthma outcomes in children. However, a new study shows that reducing exposure to ETS may improve asthma outcomes. University of Alabama researchers followed 240 children with asthma who were either receiving usual care or supervised asthma therapy.
Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing the New Drug Application
(NDA) for telavancin, a novel, bactericidal, once-daily injectable investigational antibiotic, for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia (also known as hospital-acquired pneumonia, or HAP) caused by Gram-positive bacteria such as
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
On World Health Day, World Lung Foundation calls on government health ministries and NGOs to address a neglected need for emergency services in rural areas, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Summer camp can seem like a rite of passage for many kids. But if they have asthma, it's not always an option. Camp Cough No Mas will be the state's first asthma camp in more than 10 years. VIDEO LINK.
At 14, Maylan Chavez isn't much different than most middle school girls: She rocks a pink
iPod, listening to music her mom has never heard of. She sports a shock of bleached blonde hair pulled back by a barrette. And, like any teenager, she craves independence.
Money is already tight for Murfreesboro residents Merideth and John Allen. But now that program, known as Family Support, could face steep cuts after federal stimulus funds run out.
Every chance he gets, Devin Lomon-Humes paints. With all the energy his ravaged body can muster, he drags a brush across a canvas, using bold colors to make radiant forms that defy the darkness he knows so well. VIDEO LINK.
The predominance of heartburn among asthma sufferers led many specialists to suspect that acid reflux could be a trigger for the coughing, wheezing and breathlessness of asthma.
Bob Allen walks four to five miles every day, and then gets on his bike for a ride around town. On weekends, as long as the weather permits, it's not unusual for him to do a 50-mile bike ride. But for Allen, a former smoker who has just 34 percent lung function as a result of
COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, it's "fantastic," said Allen's
pulmonologist, Dr. Nanjappa Somanna of Blessing Physician Services.
April and September are big months for a few dozen young athletes with disabilities. That is when they get to start playing soccer for Illinois
TOPSoccer, an outreach program for soccer that makes the sport accessible for children and young adults who have a mental or physical disability.
In March, Social Security became the first government agency to use the Nationwide Health Information Network
(NHIN). This initiative will cut the time it takes Social Security to get medical records - from weeks or months to only minutes - for people who apply for disability benefits. Initially this will affect a small number of the people applying for disability benefits, but it will gradually expand.
State employees who care for Texans with profound disabilities were paid millions of dollars in overtime last year, in some cases working the equivalent of a month's worth of 13-hour days, according to a review of payroll data by The Dallas Morning News.
Jacob Best is an engaging young man. He's generous with his hugs and smiles, eager to bring you into his life, although he tends to be shy around folks he doesn't yet know. But the Pleasant Prairie
23-year-old's face was shown to many strangers when it appeared in 'Possibilities,' a booklet highlighting and celebrating the lives of people with significant disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities, who, like Best, are living, learning and working in Wisconsin.
As people around the country observe National Autism Awareness Month, families in the Lakes Region who have children with autism, along with families facing other developmental disabilities, are planning to meet with the New Hampshire Senate Finance Committee to urge it to restore the funds needed in the state budget to reduce the number of people on waiting lists for services.
Melvin Grisby often rides his wheelchair to and from his dialysis treatment for diabetes. The three-times a week trip is two miles each way. VIDEO LINK.
As part of its ongoing "Learn the Signs" autism awareness drive, the Shafallah Centre for Children with Disabilities yesterday opened an exhibition of creative art works made by the
centre's autistic children.
Advocates for the disabled will be out protesting the home opener at Citi Field Monday, charging that the $15 million of renovations to the Mets-Willets Point subway station
didn't leave the stop fully accessible.
The state may need to develop a legal process to transfer Beatrice State Developmental Center patients to community-based programs over their guardians' wishes, Gov. Dave Heineman said Thursday.
For too long people with disabilities have been seen as
'special,' as different, as a totally separate group. People with disabilities have been delegated to the special class, the little bus, to the separate program. Despite several decades of the inclusion movement, encouraging and demanding that people with disabilities be allowed to participate fully in society, we still turn first to our time honored tradition of creating yet another special program.
Recently a daily reported the claim of a wheelchair-bound man about an unpleasant treatment that he encountered during a trip to a commercial bank in Subang Jaya near here.
The murder of a disabled homeless man whose body was left outside an elementary school is being described by the Vancouver police as "a disturbing and heinous crime."
China will promote the construction of a barrier-free environment for the disabled in 100 cities by the year 2010, said the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) released Monday by the Information Office of the State Council.
Loose oversight and bureaucratic inertia have allowed fraud to fester in a rapidly expanding multibillion-dollar state program that provides personal caregivers to the impoverished elderly and disabled. Hundreds of reports of scams and swindles are going without investigation.
The stigma of mental illness prevents people from seeking help for fear that they will be ostracized, labeled crazy or slow-functioning. Some people view mental illness as the result of spiritual crises caused by lack of consideration, faithfulness or similar sins against God or loved ones.
China will create 300,000 additional jobs for the disabled in cities and towns by 2010, said the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) released Monday by the Information Office of the State Council (Cabinet).
The event, put on by Students for Disability Awareness, aims to provide education and resources for people with disabilities. Activities include help with scholarships, Americans with Disabilities Act training, speakers, and documentaries.
A start toward bringing the town into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act will get underway this week when work on installing handicap ramps begins.
According to a 2007 study by the Centers for Disease Control, the incidence of autism has risen to 1 in 150 American children, and nearly 1 in every 94 boys. The Autism Society of America reports that more than 1.5 million Americans are living with the effects of autism.
Jordy wants to run. He loves running, everything about it. Warm-ups. Jordan, 20, and in his fifth and final year at Amherst High School, is living with cognitive and physical disabilities that have separated him from his peers since his earliest years.
Bonnie Tesone's dog, Maggie, is cute, loveable and different, but not to be played with. Maggie is a service do and Tesone hopes to dispel myths about what service dogs do and how to treat them.
As of April 30, Eaton and his friends no longer will attend the Skills Program at the Howard Training Center, a nonprofit organization that runs nine other programs for adults with moderate to severe disabilities. It is one of the oldest training programs at the Howard center, but officials say it has to close after losing $190,000 to a cut in state reimbursements.
The nation's top Social Security official says that benefits for tens of thousands of people with severe disabilities are being delayed by furloughs and layoffs of state employees around the country.
Walk into Debbie Schrader's special education room at Lowell Elementary School and you'll see a typical preschool class: cute, energetic 3- and 4-year-olds tumbling around, jabbering, pointing and playing.
Every month, Rhonda Frederick shakes her head as the pays mortgages of up to $15,000 on properties that sit idle, waiting for approvals from the State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
Becky Williams is a detective, of sorts. As an advocate for people in the Charlotte area with disabilities, it's her job to investigate suspected violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
West Vancouver helmet crusader Richard Kinar will be screening the doc Wipe-Out this Tuesday (April 14) at the District of North Vancouver city hall. The film, which follows three B.C. extreme sports athletes who suffer severe brain trauma, documents both the social and economic cost of preventable head injuries.
Steve Barbato was a member of the Rochester Wheels as a player and coach. In addition to being a pioneer in promoting the sport of wheelchair basketball and a dedicated coach who shaped the lives of countless athletes with disabilities, Steve devoted his life to his two girls Kelly and Stephanie. He will be greatly missed by many.
Steve Barbato, nicknamed the king of wheelchair basketball in Rochester by his teammates and friends, died Thursday after a brief bout with esophageal cancer. He was 54.
Exposure to higher levels of environmental lead earlier in the life span may be taking a toll on the brains of older American women, a new study finds.
Twenty-five-year-old Jared Parry was airlifted to University Hospital in critical condition Tuesday night. He had been riding a skateboard tethered to an ATV in a gated community in Riverton when he crashed. He fell and struck his head on the pavement. VIDEO LINK.
When I heard about actor Natasha Richardson's fatal brain trauma, I thought about Bonnie Fernie - and how tragic it is when one person dies, how miraculous it is when another lives, when it could have gone either way for both women. Fernie almost died, too - twice - but immediate treatment saved her life.
Middletown police arrested Salyers Tuesday after he admitted shaking his five-month-old son when the boy wouldn't stop crying, according to court papers.
A Kalamazoo teenager was arraigned on first-degree child-abuse charges Thursday after her infant daughter suffered a skull fracture and brain injury, said Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Fink.
As combat troops return home from the battlefield, many are heading straight to the exam room - for brain testing. It's part of the military's effort to better understand and treat head injuries. The efforts are welcomed by San Diego's military research and medical communities.
After months spent researching and developing test platforms, Force Protection and the Medical University of South Carolina have conducted the first successful test blast in their research of traumatic brain injury.
We depend on the corticospinal system, a dense tract of nerve fibers that connect our brain's motor cortex to the spinal cord, simply to walk or move our hands. And though researchers in the last two decades have made great progress in regenerating some kinds of damaged nerves, they've not been able to regrow nerves in the critical corticospinal system. AUDIO LINK.
By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering a stroke were able to regain some vision, according to scientists who published their results in the April 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
An actor living with the real-life challenges of cerebral palsy plays a disabled serial killer in the acclaimed and controversial Japanese motion picture Late Bloomer
("Osoi Hito"). Tidepoint Pictures' Bone House Asia label announces the March 24th release of the highly-anticipated DVD.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a compound that could be modified to treat one of the most deadly types of cancer, and discovered how a particular gene mutation contributes to tumor growth.
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services and Brain Mapping Foundation, has announced that it will Co-host the 6th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, August 26-29, 2009 at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
New research suggests that a widely used treatment for persistent acid reflux among asthmatics doesn't actually improve their quality of life. The finding that as many as one-third of those studied showed no improvement makes a strong case arguing that physicians should change how they currently treat these patients.
On February 5, 2009 the Assembly voted 77-0 to approve legislation Assemblyman Louis D. Greenwald and (now former) Assemblyman Douglas H. Fisher sponsored to require the state include information about Shaken Baby Syndrome to new parents.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Tuesday this week that it had cleared for marketing a new, faster test for detecting bird flu (influenza type A/H5N1) in humans that only takes 40 minutes to identify a marker protein that confirms the presence of the virus subtype from a swab.
George Quan reached down and turned off his bedside radio. It was the last thing he would ever do with his left hand. It was just after midnight on Jan. 2, 1982 and the 54-year-old was in the bathroom getting ready for bed when he lost all the feeling in the left side of his body.
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researchers who have been studying stroke for more than two decades recently received about $6.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to renew the study for another five years.
A 50-year-old Stamford woman is charged with scamming $66,000 from a former co-worker who was recovering from a stroke, police said, though the victim lost about $100,000 more in the alleged scheme.
Award-winning South African surfer Matthew Moore, who suffered a stroke only three months ago, is set to compete at the SA Longboard Championships in Jeffreys Bay next week.
Dalhousie Medical School cancer researcher Dr. Patrick Lee has proven that a common virus can infect and kill breast cancer stem cells. This breakthrough finding is published in the current issue of Molecular Therapy, the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy.
Shriners Hospitals for Children, which has provided free care since before the Great Depression, is considering closing a quarter of its facilities as donations stagnate, costs increase and the charity's endowment shrivels.
Morganton - Hayli Parlier, 5, had only one request this winter: she wanted to see snow.
Hayli, a quadriplegic, had expressed this thought to Burke County Emergency Medical Services paramedics Tim Branch, Victor Puckett, Alexis Clarke and Joey Autry.
This year's Boston Marathon has many stories of courage, inspiration and strength, including one of a Los Angeles police officer who was paralyzed when she was shot in the line of duty. Kristina Ripatti is slated to compete in the Boston Marathon after suffering a paralyzing injury to her spinal cord three years ago. VIDEO LINK.
Last year, amputee Junaidi Pauzan created a personal record by swimming 19km in the South China Sea. The 57-year-old
Junaidi, whose left leg was amputated after a road accident four years ago, is now intent on creating another personal record.
AstraZeneca announced the company has received a Complete Response Letter
(CRL) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for SYMBICORT
(budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) pressurized metered dose inhaler
(pMDI) for the long-term maintenance treatment of asthma in paediatric patients ages 6-11 years.
Smoking cigarettes is not only the principle cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), but it may change the body's immune responses to bacteria that commonly cause exacerbations of the disease, according to new research in a mouse model.
He had long ago conquered basketball, hunting, and track and field, all from his wheelchair, but recently Frontier High School senior Greg Mendenhall took on a new challenge and hit the slopes.
Nissa Ludwig used to be musician and a dancer and a performer. But ever since a progressive metabolic disorder rendered her wheelchair-bound, 'Rock Band' is as close as she gets to the stage. VIDEO LINK.
Parents of children with special needs know that even day-to-day activities require effort that most people don’t realize and often hesitate to schedule professional portrait sessions.
There is currently a six-month backlog in disability claims at the VA. Because the two agencies have different medical systems, veterans have complained about bureaucratic hurdles and long waits as they enter the VA system.
Johns Creek resident Tina Eskenazi said she began to worry about her son, Nate, who was born five weeks early, when he lagged behind in achieving the usual milestones expected during infancy.
Tell Abby Curran she can't do something and her reply will be, 'watch me.' This was her attitude when she wanted to run for the Miss Iowa State beauty pageant.
The state's leading autism advocacy organization, Autism New Jersey (formerly
COSAC), encourages all residents to help spread autism awareness during April, National Autism Awareness Month.
As she was falling about 33 feet from a sycamore tree where she had been picking mistletoe, Sandi Rush desperately tried grasping at branches. Upon hitting the ground with a sickening thud, she says, "I knew it was serious." Rush is 47 today, paralyzed from the waist down. She races wheelchairs.
Six state employees and three contractors have pleaded guilty to faking documents after state investigators found $1.2 million in contract irregularities at the Western New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office.
Diagnosed with Type I diabetes, autism and severe developmental disabilities, 23-year-old Michael Feeley requires around-the-clock care. For now, Michael's mother, Patricia, cares for her son in their Westford home. But she knows she won't be able to be there forever.
There is growing evidence that the brain can be trained to compensate for dead or damaged areas. As Ian Sample reports, this could benefit those suffering anything from a stroke to depression or relationship problems.
One of the Hutt's characters, a young woman who sidelined her disabilities and wrung all she could out of life, died at Hutt Hospital on Monday last week.
Carbon County's Special Olympic athletes recently returned from a State Competition in the sport of Floor Hockey Skills which was run in large part by Bald Eagle High School students under the direction of Jennifer
Tresp.
For the first time ever, physically challenged persons will participate in a general election with Braille-enabled electronic voting machines
(EVMs), and with ramps installed at every polling centre. Even as this 'historic milestone' is celebrated, disability rights activists are irked by inadequate awareness and publicity measures of electoral offices across the country.
VSA arts of New Jersey, New Brunswick, is observing Autism Awareness Month during April by encouraging the community to contact the organization to learn about its services for children with autism and register for upcoming programs.
One asked Gov. Dave Heineman about why the Department of Health and Human Services played a 'cruel hoax' - her assessment of the state’s removal of 47 developmentally disabled people from the Beatrice State Developmental Center and placement into hospitals and nursing homes earlier this year.
Jeramey Winfrey was 13 when he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism. In the previous eight years, he had struggled through classes in the Nederland Independent School District.
Handicap is a word in our vocabulary that comes with instant thoughts of limitations, less than 100 percent, or quite possibly a future of despair and dying dreams that may never come to fruition.
The state may have to resort to "some sort of legal process" if guardians of developmentally disabled people continue to refuse to move eligible residents into community programs, the governor said Thursday.
Rita Kuehn has always wanted to write a novel. Twelve years ago, she walked away from her corporate job, and never looked back. Kuehn's aunt was the inspiration for her first published book, "Peripheral View," by Langdon Street Press. Her aunt had a severe case of epilepsy.
The Alliance for Disability and Students at the University of Montana will host a live music event on Saturday at 6 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom.
Every soldier who's gone to war in the past year paused before leaving to take a brain test - basic math, matching numbers and symbols and identifying patterns to measure response time and accuracy.
When Kristin Lanari's sister Lauren was born with Down syndrome, there was not much in the way of helpful resources for parents, much less siblings of people with disabilities.
To get a glimpse of what it's like to live with a disability, students studying to be occupational therapists at the Cabarrus College of Health Sciences lived for a day with a pretend disability. VIDEO LINK.
Most of us already know how difficult it is to find a job in today's tight economy. But imagine the challenge if you are unemployed and also have a disability?
Members of Jacob's Ladder, a not-for-profit pediatric rehabilitation group in Portage, are raising funds to reduce the waiting time for therapy. They help children with disabilities by offering physical, occupational and speech therapy.
There are some young people who may think going to college is just out of reach. On Thursday, dozens of high school students with disabilities learned that despite what they thought, it's possible to get a higher education.
The event was part of the Brain Injury Association of Mississippi's Ride and Roll Sports Safety and Injury Prevention program, which fits kids across the state with free helmets while stressing the importance of wearing them while riding a bike, scooter, skateboard, roller blades or roller skates.
EAST Huntspill man Andrew Wall has seen his determination to beat crippling brain injury pay off after he was crowned a winner in a competition to celebrate learners who have defied the odds.
The Northern Brain Injury Association (NBIA) is making sure all northern residents have access to information about acquired brain injury. The Libraries of the North project purchased 99 books that will be distributed to 23 public libraries throughout northern British Columbia.
Mapping the billions of connections in the brain is a grand challenge in neuroscience. The current method for mapping interconnected brain cells involves the use of room-size microscopes known as transmission electron microscopes
(TEMs). Until now the process of mapping even small areas of the brain using these massive machines would have required several decades.
As many as one in three injured troops, and more than 3 million civilians in the U.S. suffer from another injury you can't see from the outside. It's called a traumatic brain injury, and it can affect a person's memory, learning, even their personality. VIDEO LINK.
"I picked up the phone and saw it was Dallas' cell phone number, but it was a
man's voice," Dallas Deen's mother, Kellie, said. And he said "Dallas has been in an accident." And I said, "Is she still alive?" There is also some level of brain injury, the severity of which doctors
aren't certain. Miss Amie was last reported in the area around Koyo Industries on Highway 601.
She's mostly gray with a white chest and is fairly receptive, Kellie said, to the shaking of a dry cat food box. "It would mean everything to her," Kellie said. "It's going to devastate her to find out her cat is gone.
"Where's Miss Amie?" will be the first thing she says."
A. J. Fordham learned the hard way he is not invincible. Fordham's life changed forever in a matter of seconds on Jan. 20, 2007, when he suffered a traumatic brain injury at age 16 as a result of motor vehicle crash.
Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury.
On Sept. 6, 2008, Steve Byers was driving to Lee's Summit on U.S. 50 West, anticipating watching his son play in a football game. In a moment, a passing car changed his life.
It was just a tumble down a couple of steps. But the bump on her head nearly killed Samarah Morrison, a Madison toddler now recovering from the same kind of brain injury that led to the recent death of actress Natasha Richardson after a fall on a beginner's ski slope in Canada.
The use of Avastin alone to treat a subgroup of recurrent Grade 3 brain tumors showed it was safe and effective at delaying tumor progression, according to a retrospective study of 22 patients conducted by a researcher at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
Richard and Naomi Lingle purchased, renovated and presented the facility in honor of their son, Zach Koestler, who died in 2007 at age 17. Survivors of acquired-brain and spinal-cord injuries will use it.
The use of minimally invasive procedures to treat brain blood vessel diseases has made tremendous strides in the past decade along with advances in the field of catheter-based interventions. The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association is providing recommendations for their use based on the best available evidence.
Stroke outcomes may be strongly influenced by social relationships. New research in mice shows solitary mice die sooner, have larger infarcts, and have different neuroinflammatory responses after ischemic stroke than mice living with partners.
Sitting in the waiting room of Mease Dunedin Hospital, Bob and Barb Gibbs fill out medical forms. It's a routine they've been through many times before. VIDEO LINK.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has lifted all remaining movement restrictions on birds and bird products in southern British Columbia. No additional cases of avian influenza were found during extensive testing of commercial poultry in the area.
Seven of the players who helped GB win Paralympic wheelchair basketball bronze are in the squad for next month's BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.
Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced that a Phase I clinical trial with the company's vaccine candidate IC47 to prevent disease caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has started.
Having to deal with asthma is bad enough, but to make matters worse, one out of every three asthmatics in this country also suffers from acid reflux.* For years doctors thought that treating acid reflux might be able to help with asthma. But a new study in the April 9th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine casts some doubts about that.
After surviving a stroke that had nearly killed him, Peter Chapman expected to feel rather weak. He also assumed it would take a while to get back into his usual regime of work and going to the gym. Within six months, these flashbacks turned him into a man terrified of contact with others, who suffered regular panic attacks when his wife, Marie, left him alone even briefly.
For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished in a brain injury site in rats by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and is described in a study to be published in the April 6th early on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(PNAS).
A paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports success in repairing damaged nerves in a system critical for human movement.
Scott Crawford wants to walk again. In September, a pile of wooden pallets fell on him. The accident left him unable to move his legs because of a spinal cord injury.
Natalie Russo uses her left hand to push the joystick on her power wheelchair. As her chair makes contact with the oversized, 13-inch soccer ball during a team scrimmage, her wheels light up red, yellow and green.
Thousands of poor, elderly and disabled Inland residents will lose their state-funded medical and dental coverage and social services on July 1 because California will not receive enough federal stimulus money to prevent nearly $1 billion in program cuts.
It should have been her worst nightmare. It should have shaken her to the core and sent her reeling. But that's not what happened when she woke up suddenly paralyzed from the waist down.
After waiting to take flight on a gusty Saturday at the end of March, more than a 100
amputees' dreams were grounded by high winds in what would have been a Guinness World Record 160-person jump for a cause.
When Pamela Davis was pregnant with her daughter Meaghan, she started to worry about contamination from the lead paint in her Hoboken, N.J., row house. Then she started reading about chemicals in plastic toys and baby clothes treated with flame-retardant.
In the third quarter of a middle school football game, Zackery Lystedt made a tackle that changed his life. It was October 2006, and Zackery was 13. Minutes after the tackle, he collapsed on the field. "It's obvious now, looking at the footage, that he suffered a concussion," said state Rep. Jay
Rodne, a North Bend Republican who represents part of Issaquah.
Graham - a missing service dog - was found and taken in by a concerned man. After the man saw the missing poster for Graham, he contacted New Horizons and Graham and his owner were happily reunited.
There were statistics, graphics and numerous handouts. But the primary teaching tool that Royane Walker used to warn about shaken baby syndrome is her grand-daughter, an angelic-faced, wheel-bound 8-year-old girl named Madison.
We know that more people are getting sick and becoming disabled from asthma than ever before. And the deaths, sometimes in the very young, are persisting tragedies. But the reasons, and the solutions, continue to elude us.
Who may be affected? People who are overweight and have sleep apnea, characterized by breathing that repeatedly stops and starts, interrupting sleep, and often is accompanied by loud snoring.
The University of Cincinnati has landed one of the largest grants in its history, $22.7 million in federal funds to support research into a rare lung disease.
Smoking cigarettes is not only the principle cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), but it may change the body's immune responses to bacteria that commonly cause exacerbations of the disease, according to new research in a mouse model.
After four wins, the Houston County Sharks are poised for a place in the football state finals. The adapted sports program for students with physical disabilities started this year and has been very successful, on the field and off.
Disabled East Texas residents may be eligible for private grant funding for free home repair and accessibility modifications to their homes, according to the East Texas Council of Governments.
Jaye Hamrick seemed to have given up. The 51-year-old had developed heart disease and symptoms of Alzheimer's, both typical of someone born with Down syndrome, a developmental disability. VIDEO LINK.
Nicholas Dimitroff feels slighted by the provincial government. The 87-year-old Second World War veteran is paying extra at a Bathurst nursing home because his Veterans Affairs Canada disability pension is being included in his financial assessment.
The story of an autistic high school student forcibly restrained by school officials attracted national attention last year when the New York Times reported about his parents' complaints.
Eleven former employees accused of encouraging fights among mentally and developmentally disabled residents at a troubled state school had little work experience beyond fast-food jobs, according to a newspaper's review of personnel records.
The Delta Alpha Pi honor society initiated its first members of the UNM chapter at a ceremony Friday. The organization recognizes the academic achievements of students who live with a documented disability and are proud of their academic accomplishments.
The Staffordshire Football Association and Stoke City FC held their annual Ability Counts Awareness Campaign last month, culminating in a day out at the Britannia Stadium for over 100 children with disabilities and impairments.
The state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities operates more than 8,000 group homes statewide and inspects the vast majority of them on its own, without intervention on the local municipal level.
If special-education dollars from the federal stimulus package are used on technology like interactive SMART boards, it will be money well spent, local educators said yesterday at a round-table discussion organized by U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski.
Staten Island's Assemblyman Michael Cusick said he is "hopeful" that a long-time North Shore program serving special needs children and adults will be spared the state funding ax.
Legislation to protect residents of Texas' state schools for the disabled from abuse is headed to the House, loaded with measures to improve conditions in community care settings as well.
The Family Support Center of New Jersey (FSCNJ), 2516 Route 35, Manasquan, a clearinghouse for disability information, is offering the parents and caregivers of the developmentally disabled an opportunity to schedule free computer drop-in hours for employment searching and research.
After Nebraska lawmakers criticized them for not releasing information, state officials have provided some details on how they plan to spend millions on the troubled Beatrice State Developmental Center.
Valdosta State University's Sociology Department has partnered with the
Mayor's Council for Persons with Disabilities to study the accessibility of city services for the disabled.
Lena Rominscaia, nearly blind since birth, can vaguely make out shapes and can't read words on a page unless they're blown up to the size of the headline over this article. VIDEO LINK.
Family members of residents of the state's six centers for the developmentally disabled rallied at the State House yesterday to oppose the governor's proposal to close four facilities and transfer the residents to community-based treatment.
Bryan Arnold, a student at King Career Center, produced his own video about living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His message: Even with his disabilities he's just like any other kid.
After more than two decades of providing service dogs to assist disabled clients, Freedom Service Dogs ramped up its operations earlier this year, extending its program to provide animals to assist military veterans.
Disabled World has introduced a new section aimed at more professional Writers who wish to contribute to Disabled World and the International Disability Community through independent, dedicated blogs.
University of South Carolina Upstate senior Cecilia McAlister struggled to get through a doorway into the Campus Life Center in her wheelchair, while her sister, Laurel, was just trying to find her way.
Kimberly Dolan, a special education teacher at Salk Elementary School, originally met Jennifer Kozub while trying on shoes at a local department store.
Jim Mullen moves his tongue to make his right cheek bulge. "I got shot right here with a .357, and I should be dead," said the former Chicago police officer, who was injured in the line of duty more than 12 years ago.
Proposals to give private school vouchers to children with disabilities provoked heated debate in the Texas Legislature on Tuesday, as educators, parents and lawmakers weighed in on the controversial issue.
By modifying the properties of the common antibiotic
gentamicin, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed what could become an effective treatment for many human genetic diseases, including cystic fibrosis (CF), Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Usher Syndrome and numerous cancers.
Down syndrome is a chromosomal disorder caused by an error in cell division that results in an extra 21st chromosome. The condition leads to impairments in both cognitive ability and physical growth that range from mild to moderate developmental disabilities.
A family with disabilities in Provo was in tears today -- tears of joy that is -- after seeing their newly renovated home in Provo. About $150,000 was raised for the new house given to the Jensen family from volunteer donations. VIDEO LINK.
Atleast 50,000 people with physical and mental disabilities have been displaced following the closure of Internally Displaced People's camps in
Gulu, northern Uganda.
Rural Albertans with disabilities will get help to prepare for jobs or become self-employed thanks to the Government of Canada's support for two local employment programs.
As the 2008-09 girls' basketball season was about to begin, Springfield (Ill.) High School guard Emma Anderson confided to the team's athletic trainer during practice that she was having persistent headaches and dizziness.
A series of concussions ended Keith Primeau's NHL playing career, but the former Flyers captain hopes that someday his problems will lead to a better understanding of the causes and symptoms of the injury.
Leander High School athletic trainer Wayne Lauritzen said he never thought a single concussion was life threatening. He still doesn't. But there's enough danger in suffering a second trauma before the brain heals that Lauritzen spearheaded a concussion testing program for all his school's contact sports in 2003, one year after an Austin quarterback died from what doctors determined was a series of collisions.
Eight-year-old Alejandro "Alex" Casillas doesn't talk anymore. But he cried at his homecoming. For his family, the brain-damaged boy's quiet tears Thursday evening suggested he knew he was finally home after more than two months in the hospital.
"Perception is everything." That basically was the message given to brain injury survivors and the medical professionals, attorneys, educators, students and families involved in their care at the recent Northern Kentucky Third Annual Traumatic Brain Injury Conference held March 27 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington.
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services and Brain Mapping Foundation, announced today that it will Co-host the 6th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy, August 26-29, 2009 at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
The House recently approved legislation to establish a national brain injury awareness month. A week after that, the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, which I co-founded, requested $37 million for programs to address the needs of people affected by brain injury - a 68 percent increase over this
year's level - and $13 million to further brain injury research.
A Senate vote on the bill - which has been amended since first introduced in January -could happen as early as this week, Morrisette said. It would become law on July 1 and be implemented for the 2010-2011 school year.
Angela Moehring is an attractive 30-year-old who lives in an apartment in Carbondale. Until you talk to her, you would never guess she suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her in a coma for nearly two months - and changed her life path forever.
The signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is not restricted to those engaged in combat. Mild traumatic brain injury - more commonly known as concussion - can occur in the most benign of places, including playgrounds and playing fields.
University of Queensland Division of Therapy researchers are currently looking for individuals with COPD who may be interested in participating in a study, investigating whether a Self Management approach is as effective as Pulmonary Rehabilitation or usual medical care for individuals with
COPD. You do not have to have a formal diagnosis to take part.
The first survey of staffing levels in stroke units in England estimates that more than 2,000 whole time equivalent
(WTE) extra posts are needed to provide the best care to patients. The survey asked the lead clinician in 140 stroke units in England to collect information about patient numbers, staff numbers and staff/patient contact time to build up a picture of care.
Africa faces an "epidemic" of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in the coming decades which needs to be urgently addressed by healthcare professionals and governments, according to a Declaration for Cardiovascular Practitioners in Africa, published today.
A well-known Dalton cycler has published a book about a near-fatal crash and his long road to recovery. NewsChannel9.com has extensively covered the traumatic accident and recovery of Dalton, Georgia's Saul Raisin.
Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc. [NIMS] (OTCBB:NIMU) announced that the results of a laboratory investigation published in the April issue of the journal Neuroscience links the technology behind
NIMS' patented Exer-Rest(R) acceleration therapeutic platform to a reduction in brain damage for the major cause of stroke.
Duke University researchers have identified a receptor on the surface of cells that may give them another avenue of attack against
glioblastoma, the most common and most deadly type of brain cancer.
Roche announced that its new LightCycler(R) test for the detection of
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is now available with the CE Mark, allowing it to be sold for clinical use in the European Union.
By uncovering a mechanism that causes damage to brain synapses during Alzheimer's disease, researchers might have found a key to reducing or preventing nerve degeneration for these patients.
A better understanding of how inflammation impacts neurodegenerative conditions like
Parkinson's disease may one day lead to new and better treatments for these conditions.
Gliomas are malignant brain tumors that arise from glial (supporting) cells of the brain. Gliomas are often resistant to chemotherapy. These tumors grow fine extensions that infiltrate normal brain tissue and, in addition, individual tumor cells can form satellites in surrounding tissue. Therefore, it is almost impossible to remove the tumor tissue completely by surgery.
Preliminary research examining the difference in brain activity between soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and those without it moves scientists a step closer to the possibility of being able one day to use brain scans to help diagnose the condition.
Cognitive theorists postulate how information is processed. For example, is it like a computer where all the information is broken down into bits, processed, and then reassembled for output? Or is processing handled in a completely different manner?
A new study by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin has shown that the highly regimented ketogenic diet, a high-fat nutritional therapy used to limit seizures, requires long-term medical management and strong parental commitment to achieve both sufficient nutrition and improved seizure control in children.
The North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) is now accepting abstracts for the Seventh Annual Conference on Brain Injury which will be held at the Austin Downtown Hilton Hotel on October 14-17, 2009.
Until last month, Brenda Leonard felt the healthiest she'd been since childhood.
She'd lost 85 pounds, taken up running and was a regular in the 10K circuit. She was getting ready for a run one morning last month when her lithe, muscular body suddenly failed her. She heard a loud buzzing and then lost control of her arm and leg movements. Stumbling to her 18-year-old son Joshua, she told him something
wasn't right. She needed help. VIDEO LINK.
Waikato University PhD student Margaret Dudley is a neuropsychologist who's been studying the impact of attention process training in early recovery from strokes. She's working on the Health Research Council funded Stroke Attention Rehabilitation Trial (START) project, which is led by University of Auckland researcher Dr Suzanne
Barker-Collo.
About 1,500 athletes are in South Florida this weekend to compete in a Triathlon that will raise money for children, but for one man, it's also about proving that his wheelchair is not his obstacle. VIDEO LINK.
Joan Manley, of Lexington, became a Spinal Cord Injury Quadriplegic due to an automobile accident. She works with numerous organizations, boards, and is a part-time Advocacy Specialist with VAIL Center for Independent Living.
An avid runner who'd been healthy all his life, Jesus Jimenez ignored his diabetes diagnosis for years -- until the disease caused a foot infection so bad that he was out of work for months and faced a possible amputation.
A computer test is helping coaches and athletes in Natrona County schools get a better idea how long players should be benched after suffering a concussion.
Alex Lucaci was goalkeeper for Summit High School's varsity soccer team on Nov. 1, 2007, when he fell, landing on the back of his head and neck. Alex shared the story of the resulting concussion at a press conference held by the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey on March 26 at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center at Montclair State University.
One reason for the development of allergy may be malfunction of the respiratory epithelium, which allows allergens to bind to, enter and travel through the epithelium. Two studies by Finnish research groups on this subject have recently been published in two international biomedical journals (1) Allergy, and (2) Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
The last thing John Candela remembers is riding in a car on the way to a Staten Island movie theater with his girlfriend Tiffany on Jan. 13. "When I woke up, I was scared," Candela says of that split second on Feb. 20 when he finally opened his eyes and answered the prayers of his mother, Donna, and father Michael Candela. "I thought I was in Jersey. I didn't know what happened to me.
June Middleton was struck down by polio at 22, just months before she was to wed. June marks 60 years in an iron lung, which enables the 82-year-old to breathe. VIDEO LINK
The major cause of COPD is damage to the airways, causing inflammation, tissue destruction and excessive mucus production. The largest percentage of people with COPD have a long history of cigarette smoking. Emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and asthma are all conditions that cause air trapping.
Drug maker AstraZeneca PLC faces a delay in marketing its asthma treatment Symbicort for young children in the United States after regulators on Monday requested more information about the drug.
The Supreme Council for Disabled Affairs announced that it has reached an agreement with the Credit and Savings Bank enabling disabled citizens to obtain housing loans. The council indicated that the agreement was the fruit of strenuous efforts exerted by both the council and the bank to help the disabled, reported
Al-Qabas.
Raised awareness of mobility impaired sportsman has spawned change in the hunting world. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife has been taking steps to make their areas more friendly for those who are mobility-impaired.
For 28 years, Isaac Keen lived without the correct diagnosis for his mental illness of bipolar disorder and manic depression. He lived on a roller coaster of moods and had trouble keeping stability in his life. "I wasn't ever homeless; I don't know how," Keen said. "Those were about 20 years of hell."
A $20,000-plus electric wheelchair mistakenly taken or possibly stolen from an Upper Southampton driveway was in a truckload of items that fetched $66 from a scrap yard. That's what an investigator said Friday about John Feeley Jr.'s wheelchair, which was taken from their Tomlinson Road property Monday.
For two days, Margaret Jones lay at the top of a dank SEPTA stairwell near Eighth and Filbert Streets. They worried about Margaret, schizophrenic and diabetic. She wheezed heavily and, in her hot-pink cropped pants, was not dressed for the 25-degree January night.
When a person suffers a mild traumatic brain injury, it usually leaves him or her with new challenges. When that person already has emotional problems, the challenges are greater. "(Emotional) Diseases should be sorted out by a therapist or psychologist," said Ronald M. Ruff, Ph.D. to a full conference room at Chico Family Masonic Center. "But a brain injury can cause a personality change."
Lori Novak longed for an answer to her son Alex's persistent question. Alex, a Special Olympics athlete, wanted to know if he could earn a varsity letter.
A senior management employee suffers from severe depression and has to take time off work. She applies for long-term disability ("LTD") benefits under her employer's group insurance policy. She receives LTD benefits. After two years, her employer gets tired of waiting for her to come back to work, and fires her.
John Haskett sat in his wheelchair outside the Granite Falls School District headquarters on a sunny March day. A picket sign propped in his lap read "Make an example for other school districts to follow."
Mark Schreiber is showing rare courage in handling a rare injury. A major in the U.S. Air Force in 2004, Schreiber was spending part of his first weekend stationed on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, by taking a surfing lesson. Tragically, he suffered a largely unknown non-traumatic spine injury called surfer's
myelopathy.
An estimated 5 million children are living with disabilities in the United States. Now a new program is giving toddlers as young as a year old some independence by outfitting them with wheels. VIDEO LINK.
The city plans to build its first playground specially designed so that children who use wheelchairs or have other disabilities can easily access and enjoy slides, swings and other activities.
The kids paired up with experienced hunters today who learned how to shoot turkeys through the United Special Sportsman Alliance Organization. The disabled children came back this afternoon proudly showing off the nine prize turkey's they were able to capture. VIDEO LINK.
Local fitness giant, BodyBuilding.com, is hosting an expo tonight with a host of nutrition information, and some of the hottest bodies and names in fitness both locally and nationally. VIDEO LINK.
The home plate umpire jumps up, enthusiastically flails his arms and robustly yells "safe!" The announcer comments on how much the participants have grown since a year ago and even nicknames a few children "cutie
patootie." Everybody seemingly does the chicken dance.
Agawam High School junior Mario C. Bonavita one day wants to become a disc jockey, playing tunes and joking around on the radio To achieve that dream, as well as to live a full, rich life,
Bonavita, who has autism, says he needs the help of services that are now threatened by cuts proposed by Gov. Deval L. Patrick.
The next "Miss Wheelchair California" was crowned Saturday at a ceremony in Sacramento, and the local resident who formerly held the tiara was on hand to pass the torch. "I am so excited," said Alyson Roth, the new champion. "I have a spinal cord injury from a car accident in July 2000. Life changed dramatically at that time." VIDEO LINK.
Three local organizations have launched a tool aimed at connecting buyers and renters with housing that includes specialized features for the physically disabled.
Parents of special-education students rarely get to have those precious, scholastic coming-of-age moments, such as watching their children star in school recitals or pitch shutouts for their baseball teams.
Olympian Brittany Lopez, her head held high, marched proudly into ring No. 1 with 15 other athletes to open the Area 4 Florida Special Olympics Equestrian games and to send the world a message: We will enjoy meeting life's challenges.
On the occasion of World Autism Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reaffirmed its commitment to provide technical assistance to member states to deliver integrated health services to people with autism and other mental and developmental disorders of childhood.
Fatigue, nausea, sunburns, rashes, blisters, bruises and sexual assault - the proof of abuse was supported by physicians and nurses who treated "Lisa" after every visit with her stepfather. Yet every time the Northumberland woman went to court, her testimony was never accepted.
Visitors with disabilities can find far more resources and increased accessibility in Hawai'i - from airports and rental cars to all-terrain wheelchairs at some O'ahu beaches - compared with just a decade ago.
The Makati City Council has echoed calls for the Commission on Elections
(Comelec) to create special voting precincts for persons with disabilities
(PWDs) and senior citizens.
THE NSW Opposition is proposing to overhaul the delivery of disability services, which may emerge as a template for its approach to social services in the state if it gains power in 2011.
After Norris Turner's stroke a decade ago, he would tuck his right arm into his pocket to get the nearly useless limb out of the way. Now the 68-year-old from suburban Columbia can use the arm to play catch with his grandson and hit a golf ball nearly 100 feet.
While the ability to spend a quiet day fishing is something many people take for granted, longtime fisherman Russell Brownfield recently had a bumpy road on the way to relaxation. Brownfield, confined to a wheelchair since losing both his legs in a work-related accident several years ago, is a regular at the lake at Dunlap Creek Park, where he spends a lot of time fishing.
Some 1,200 athletes and officers from 11 countries are expected to gather here for the Fifth Asean Para Games from Aug 15 to 19, which Malaysia is hosting.
Local teenager Lyndon White plays the drums with the boundless energy of famous rock 'n' rollers like The Who's Keith Moon and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham. In fact, White's skills at the drum kit might be more impressive than the accomplishments of those late legends when you look at the obstacles he's overcome.
A special sports club for people with speech and hearing challenges will be set up in Oman following the orders from His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
Some people are concerned about a building they don't think caters to people with disabilities and it might surprise you to hear which one. VIDEO LINK.
Now there's good news from the Social Security Administration--people with serious medical problems can avoid delays in their disability applications because of the Social Securty compassionate allowances program. It's hard enough to have a serious medical issue; now at least you can avoid the old hassles and start receiving your Social Security disability benefits faster.
Though blue-jean-clad and just 20 years old, Kyle Sanchez talks and acts like a gentleman. Sanchez, who lives with her and his younger brother, Andrew, got a job last year to help pay the family's bills. But his helpful attitude earned him more than a paycheck.
Even in this recession, families who have children with disabilities must plan for the future. It is important for families to have financial plans and living options for their children with disabilities.
Both Cocke County and Newport City School Systems will receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA) for Individuals with Disabilities funding.
Governor Phil Bredesen and Commissioner of Education Dr. Timothy Webb announced Friday that allocations representing approximately half of the Individuals with Disabilities Educationa Act (IDEA) funding will be available to school districts.
Joe Steffy is off to Overland Park, Kan., this week to do a PowerPoint presentation on his business,
Poppin' Joe's Kettle Korn. He's a 23-year-old small-business man with a goal of $100,000 in sales by 2012. Joe also has autism and Down syndrome and is nonverbal. When he gives his talk, he will push buttons on an augmentative speech device to deliver the words. His audience will be parents who fervently hope their own special-needs children will be able to work, too.
The biggest news is an approach called "supportive and customized employment," in which school systems and state vocational rehabilitation programs work together to help teenagers move into the workforce while still in high school.
The Senate adopted its fiscal 2010 budget resolution (S Con Res 85) Thursday night, a few hours after the house adopted its version (H Con Res 85). While neither budget exactly mirrors President Obama's proposal, they do pave the way for implementing his proposals on health care, energy and education.
When a person suffers a mild traumatic brain injury, it usually leaves him or her with new challenges. When that person already has emotional problems, the challenges are greater. "(Emotional) Diseases should be sorted out by a therapist or psychologist," said Ronald M. Ruff, Ph.D. to a full conference room at Chico Family Masonic Center. "But a brain injury can cause a personality change."
It has been one year since a College Station toddler suffered a life-threatening brain injury. Today, Alexis Verzal continues to push forward in her recovery. According to officials, the one-year-old suffered injuries consistent with shaken baby syndrome at her day care on April 3, 2008. VIDEO LINK.
AN East Huntspill man battled through a debilitating brain injury thanks to a Somerset charity - now he hopes to offer comfort to those with similar experiences. Andrew Wall's life was changed forever during a diving holiday in Turkey in 1998, when a chimneyless heater leaked carbon monoxide into his boat, causing him irreparable brain damage.
Actress Natasha Richardson's seemingly simple fall on a ski slope is raising questions of how it might have led to her death - especially since she seemed to be fine afterward.
Cranial radiation therapy to treat brain cancer can result in various long-term neurological side effects, particularly in children. Lithium has protective properties in the brain that make it a potential therapy for reducing these side effects; however, little is known about the mechanisms by which it protects nerves.
Individuals diagnosed with a brain arteriovenous malformation
(BAVM) -- an abnormal tangle of arteries and veins -- are at increased risk of vessel rupture and bleeding that can cause permanent brain damage. Traditionally, doctors have prescribed preventive interventions like surgery, but there is suggestive evidence that this invasive approach may actually increase risk of a rupture, at least in some patients.
The active chemical in marijuana promotes the death of brain cancer cells by essentially helping them feed upon themselves, researchers in Spain report.
Sepracor Inc. (Nasdaq: SEPR) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application
(NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of eslicarbazepine acetate as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial-onset seizures in adults with epilepsy. The proposed trade name for eslicarbazepine acetate is
STEDESA-TM.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new biological indicator that may help identify which brain-cancer patients have the most aggressive forms of the disease.
The 32nd Annual Professionals' Conference on Rehabilitation of the Adult and Child with Traumatic Brain Injury: Practical Solutions to Real World Problems will be held June 4-5 in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA).
The death of 16-year old Montclair, New Jersey high school student Ryne Dougherty has prompted legislators throughout the state to increase the level of awareness and prevention for sports related brain injuries.
The epidemiologist in charge of Australia's part in the biggest ever study of mobile phone safety is now warning of an increased risk of potentially deadly brain
tumours.
Children who survive brain tumours are far more likely than their schoolmates to have learning difficulties that make getting an education a challenge for them, a new study suggests.
But now there is groundbreaking new technology that allows patients on the waiting list for lung transplants to get out of bed and exercise thanks to a portable artificial lung. VIDEO LINK.
A highly fatal type of stroke appears to occur more frequently during the coldest months of winter and when atmospheric pressure rises, doctorsinHongKong have observed.
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have been able to speed recovery and substantially reduce damage resulting from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies.
Long Beach resident Angela Madsen exits the driver's side of a minivan, its doors decked in bright row-boating promo images. Pivoting in a single motion, she lowers herself from the car and casually maneuvers onto the sidewalk at the Pete Archer Rowing Center. The
paraplegic's wheelchair seems obsolete as she goes through such everyday motions.
Despite a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down, the high school freshman is competing side-by-side with some of the state's top track stars. Arielle Rausin may move a little differently than her teammates, but she says she's a lot like them.
Ronald Fletcher is a self-described thrill seeker. But he can't ski or ski dive any more because he's paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair -- the result of a drunk driving accident. VIDEO LINK.
The stroke had paralyzed Jan Simpson's left side. It looked like she would never play the violin again. That simply wouldn't do. She started with the Everett Symphony at 16 years old. After turning 74, the prize was finally hers. She was going to play Carnegie Hall, and nothing, not even a damn stroke, was going to stop her.
Kristina Ripatti, who retired from the Los Angeles Police Department after a shootout left her paralyzed, is tackling her next challenge -- the grueling Boston Marathon. Pedaling a hand bike provided by the Challenged Athletes Foundation, the Redondo Beach wife and mother will compete in her first-ever marathon April 20.
If you want to break the ice among a shy 7-year-old Oklahoma girl in a brand-new pink wheelchair and the dozens of Maine cheerleaders who helped raise $2,200 to give it to her, suggest they all sing a Taylor Swift song.
A Vietnam veteran and double amputee had some words of advice to wounded warriors when he spoke to students and staff at the Command and General Staff College March 25 as part of the Marshall Hall lecture series.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will compete at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester after recovering from injuries sustained in a boating accident in South Africa.
Amy Dodson lost half of her left leg at 19 and the lower lobe of her left lung at 22. But she has the ultra-running bug, so it will take something more to stop her.
Iowa lawmakers are considering a bill that would require insurers to pay for prosthetic limbs for people who suffered a catastrophic injury or illness.
Brightly colored children's bracelets and necklaces line the display case of a Chinese manufacturer in this factory town. Adorned with mini school buses, sandals and other charms, the jewelry sits ready to be sold to foreign and domestic buyers. It also contains lead.
The Illinois attorney general's office on Monday opened an inquiry into numerous toys identified in a Tribune investigation as containing high levels of lead. VIDEO LINK.
High school athletes will do just about anything to play. They have lied about feeling better, played through pain and convinced parents, coaches and doctors they can participate when they might not be ready.
What had been called a headache prove to be a concussion, and Minnesota Wild forward Pierre-Marc Bouchard might be finished for the season. Likewise, defenseman Brent Burns is dealing with a concussion and team officials are being cautious with him.
Dogs who help blind people and others with disabilities, as well as police and search and rescue dogs, will be given free eye exams next month by Colorado State University veterinarians.
A study in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that low socioeconomic status independently predicts the poor acceptance of continuous positive airway pressure
(CPAP) therapy for obstructive sleep apnea, and patients with higher incomes are more likely to begin treatment. The authors suggest that CPAP support programs should be better tailored to the needs of low-income patients to improve CPAP acceptance and adherence.
Carrie Schulman was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1985. "I have a disability. It's never going away. I know that," she told Local 10's Janine Stanwood. VIDEO LINK.
Sarah Panzau made the journey to Tyndall from St. Louis to explain how a person can go from an two-time all-American college athlete, as she once was, to a 27 year-old amputee and survivor of a catastrophic drunk-driving accident.
Those suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often complain that exercise is too exhausting and leaves them breathless. An article in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that supervised exercise through pulmonary rehabilitation can actually reduce their feelings of breathlessness, increase their tolerance for exercise and improve their quality of life.
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a sweeping new theory of autism that suggests that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but
dysregulated, meaning symptoms of the disorder might be reversible.
A MAN whose battle against severe disability led to the creation of children's hospices in Scotland has died. Daniel McCalman - who at the age of three was "sent home to die" almost 30 years ago - passed away at his home in Broughton last Friday.
Amy Gardner has a learning disability, and her parents were told she would never walk or talk. Now 18, the Orleans-Niagara BOCES Niagara Career and Technology student has been ice skating since she was 9 months old.
Travelling through airports can be a daunting experience for anyone but for some people with autism the prospect is enough to stop them travelling abroad, which is why Manchester Airport has launched a unique information guide designed to help passengers travelling with children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
(ASD) so that they know what to expect.
This time around, the autistic 13-year-old first-former intends to prove that his disability is no obstacle to success by making a mark in the RHB New Straits Times Spell-It-Right Challenge.
A blood test that can help predict the seriousness of a head injury and detect the status of the blood-brain barrier is a step closer to reality, according to two recently published studies involving University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.
A teenager who was born with one hand, four kidneys and a debilitating stomach condition is fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a catwalk model. Maryelen
Loughran, 15, eats through a tube and has crippling arthritis but beat thousands of other girls to win a place in the final of a national modelling contest.
For all the talk of an impending crisis in Social Security, one already exists: The system is clogged with hundreds of thousands of disputed disability claims, a backlog so big that some people wait years for a hearing.
Two Montgomery County Council committees yesterday endorsed legislation that would overhaul the government's disability retirement program by establishing a partial disability benefit for those still able to work and by making the standard for total disability more stringent.
The right of the disabled persons to equal access to socio-economic areas e.g. employment, education, health etc have not been properly reflected in the policy and legislation of the country. Justifiable expectations of equal access for them are still wishful thinking. As a result, it is not only the person, but the family as a whole is disabled socially and economically. No expert on disability is in the policy making level. Yet none of the political parties have their specific plans and policies in bringing persons with disabilities in the mainstream of the development.
Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization, has announced a new partnership with the Albanian Children Foundation
(ACF) the first international accord in the Global Autism Public Health
(GAPH) Initiative. In addition, they announced an agreement with Irish Autism Action to form an advisory committee to facilitate the development of a GAPH partnership.
Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical social information. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine report their results in the March 29 online issue of Nature.
Easter Seals is shining the spotlight on its services for individuals living with autism. Among its vast array of services, the national nonprofit provides for people with disabilities and their loved ones.
Boone County Family Resources has a contract to purchase an
eight-plex in the south-central part of Columbia to house people with developmental disabilities.
When you have a stroke, minutes matter. Getting the right treatment can mean the difference between a normal life, or one spent with terrible disabilities. VIDEO LINK.
The board of the New York State Affordable Housing Corporation
(AHC) today approved a $300,000 grant to the Oswego Housing Development Council, Inc. for the acquisition and rehabilitation of 24 homes in Oswego County.
Autism is considered a brain disorder that makes it difficult to communicate or interact normally with others. Children who suffer from autism, which is about 1 in 150, can be helped with appropriate intervention and increased awareness, which is the message in April, National Autism Awareness Month.
The annual Disabled Surfers Association hands-on day will bring together large numbers of people with disabilities, their carers and volunteers to ride waves and enjoy some time together.
Joe Steffy is off to Overland Park, Kan., this week to do a PowerPoint presentation on his business,
Poppin' Joe's Kettle Korn. He's a 23-year-old small-business man with a goal of $100,000 in sales by 2012. Joe also has autism and Down syndrome and is nonverbal.
Autism is growing up. The children diagnosed with the developmental disorder in the 1990s are now teenagers, and they and their parents are starting to wrestle with the question of how they will live as adults. "Unfortunately, I don't think we as a country are ready for that," says Peter Bell, executive vice president for programs and services at Autism Speaks, an advocacy group.
In order for the Stark County MRDD to remain financially solvent it needs to pass a 1.4-mill, 5-year levy. Without it, the services provided by the county organization will be altered dramatically and the cost of providing educational services to hundreds of children will fall on Stark County’s public school districts.
Several advocates for Ohioans with developmental disabilities have been working with Sen. Stewart on the bill and traveled to the Statehouse for the hearing, including representatives from People First of Ohio, which works to lobby state and local leaders to improve opportunities for disabled residents in Ohio’s communities.
People with developmental disabilities are living more independently thanks to a non-profit organization that`s been helping to provide help at home and work. For 30 years, Hit, Inc., has helped people become active in the community through attending events and volunteering and that`s why
KFYR-TV and City Magazine are giving the non-profit organization our City Salute for the month of April.
Arizona Bridge to Independent Living, Arizona's largest center for independent living serving people with disabilities, recently announced that peer mentor volunteer Tony Trujillo has been awarded the Marcus Harrison Jr. Leadership Award at the 5th Annual American Indian Disability Summit.
Some people have asked Eric Eiseman, a sophomore media communications major, if they can ride his Go-Go Scooter. For
Eiseman, the scooter is not a means of entertainment - it's his means of transportation on Webster University's campus, which lacks some ramps and has dysfunctional elevators and
automated doors.
For wheelchair users, the blind and the elderly, getting around Forsyth County can be a journey often blocked with obstacles that many others never notice. Officials have worked to make that journey easier. But an assistant professor at Winston-Salem State University and her students have produced a report that says there's still a long way to go.
John Haskett sat in his wheelchair outside the Granite Falls School District headquarters on a sunny March day. A picket sign propped in his lap read "Make an example for other school districts to follow."
Gloucester County officials opened Thursday the state's first adult transition center, which they said was developed to assure that the county's young adults with disabilities aren't left behind.
I always thought epilepsy was a rare and terrible thing that developed during childhood, and that by the time you hit your 30s, you were pretty much home free.
A 70-year-old Grand Rapids woman accused of taking more than $20,000 from three adults in her care might have victimized more than 25 people, the Wood County corporation counsel said.
Welcome to Donka Inc., a 22-year-old nonprofit organization at the DuPage County Convalescent Center in Wheaton that provides technology and training to help people with disabilities acquire skills for employment and increase their independence.
A charity which provided free physical therapy for children with disabilities has been forced to start charging for treatment because of the recession.
Sometimes it's difficult to make ourselves understood when we speak. We've got a limited set of words to work with; we can't always find the ones we want; and our listeners take in everything through imperfect ears, background noise and messy mental filters.
Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara is conducting an essay contest for Niagara County students in grades six through 12 titled
'A Letter to a Person With a Developmental Disability.' Students must submit essays by May 4.
Through its new Complaints Resolution Official (CRO) Assistance Service, global medical services provider MedAire Inc.
(www.MedAire.com) is working alongside commercial airlines, the U.S. Department of Transportation and assistance organizations to provide equal access to the skies for those with disabilities.
Summer camp is, a place for children to be outdoors, swim, ride horses, canoe, camp under the stars and try new things. Summer camp has long been a place for children to make friends, gain self-confidence, get along with others and have fun.
India's Department of Atomic Energy is sending an investigative team to the northern state of Punjab after traces of uranium where found in the hair samples of children and adults with disabilities.
On Tuesday night, on the grounds of the Ontario legislature, a group of community-living activists and former residents of institutions gathered for a candlelight vigil. They were celebrating a historic moment in the evolution of health and social-welfare systems that occurred when, on March 31, Ontario closed the last three large institutions for people with developmental disabilities.
The Lebanon Borough School District has a responsibility to locate, identify and evaluate all resident students with disabilities who are in need of special education and related services, including students with disabilities attending nonpublic schools and highly mobile students with disabilities such as migrant and homeless students.
Scientists using imaging scans on soldiers have identified brain patterns that signal post-traumatic stress, a finding they said on Friday could eventually help diagnose the disorder sooner.
The current method for mapping interconnected brain cells involves the use of room-size microscopes known as transmission electron microscopes
(TEMs). Until now the process of mapping even small areas of the brain using these massive machines would have required several decades. In this week's open-access journal PLoS Biology, research teams at the University of Utah John A. Moran Eye Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder report technical advances that have reduced the time it takes to process high-speed "color" ultrastructure mapping of brain regions down to a few months.
"This is the biggest battle of my life, this is the sixth major."
Those were the poignant words of Severiano Ballesteros to describe his fight to recover from a brain tumour diagnosed last October.
For Jerry Eubanks, it's a weekly challenge. Work to improve multi- tasking skills. And he's already making progress from the initial diagnosis of traumatic brain injury.
Michele Lingiardi is scrambling to find care for her husband because of the pending closure, at least temporarily, of a Ventura group home for victims of brain injuries. "It's a mess," said Lingiardi who was told of the plans last Thursday. "You just
don't close places like this, this quickly."
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, each year approximately 1.4 million people have a traumatic brain injury, and 1 million people with head injuries are treated in hospital emergency departments. The recent death of actress Natasha Richardson also has drawn attention to the potential danger of a seemingly innocuous bump on the head.
The plan was created as a way to enhance the traumatic brain injury system of care currently in existence and to increase advocacy, education and funding.
Every 23 seconds, a traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs in this country. We are five times more likely to sustain a brain injury than multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, HIV/AIDS and breast cancer combined. The Federal government spends less than $3 per brain injury survivor on research and services. Each year 475,000 children in the U.S. sustain a TBI and
it's the leading cause of death and disability among youngsters.
A blood test that can help predict the seriousness of a head injury and detect the status of the blood-brain barrier is a step closer to reality, according to two recently published studies involving University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.
"The most important advice I can give to people who engage in recreational activities like skiing, snowboarding, bicycling, horseback riding, inline skating, skateboarding, football, baseball or riding a motorcycle is wear a helmet," said Dr. Marvin
Zelkowitz, board-certified neurologist.
Every year about 1,300 Washington residents die from traumatic brain injury. And according to state Department of Health statistics, men are twice as likely as women to die from TBI.
In July 1995, Jean Berube's father, a professor at Old Dominion University, was involved in a car accident. Soon after, he appeared completely recovered from relatively minor injuries. "It was months later, in October, when he started slurring his words and showed symptoms that looked like he was having a stroke," Berube said. "My mother knew something was wrong."
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control describes traumatic brain injury as caused "by a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain."
A combination treatment is now being developed that includes autogolous stem cells, scar
abalation, physio therapy along with other medications that now have shown that in the spinal cord of rats the recovery rate is 30 per cent refunction and sensory.
ReMIND.org, a Bob Woodruff Foundation initiative, has awarded its second $100,000 grant to the Jericho Project for use in helping veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who sustained Traumatic Brain Injury and/or Post Traumatic Stress. The Jericho Project, a nonprofit leader in ending homelessness at its roots, is building two Veterans Residences in the Bronx, New York, to deliver permanent supportive housing and comprehensive counseling services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a new analytical tool to answer the question of how our brain cells record outside stimuli and react to them.
The ability to construct a hypothetical situation in one's imagination prior to it actually occurring may afford greater accuracy in predicting its eventual outcome. The recollection of past experiences is also considered to be a reconstructive process with memories recreated from their component parts.
Recordings of rat hippocampal place cells have provided information about how the hippocampus retrieves memory sequences. One line of evidence has to do with phase precession, a process organized by theta and gamma oscillations.
First came the news of the tragic death of Tony-award-winning actress Natasha Richardson from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a fall on a Canadian ski slope. Then came the article about Janice Jackson, of Cincinnati, who died from a head injury after being thrown off a motor scooter while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico.
The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema - the swelling of brain tissue - and not from any direct anti-tumor effect, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital
(MGH) researchers.
Drugstore operator Walgreen will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and routine treatment for minor ailments through its walk-in clinics - though patients will still pay for
precriptions.
The eighth World Congress on Brain Injury will be held in Washington DC from March 10-14, 2010. The world congress is sponsored by the International Brain Injury Association.
(IBIA). They have just issued a request for abstracts in connection with this congress.
The Brain Injury Association of America will present Brain Injury Litigation Strategies 2009 in Las Vegas on April 30 - May 1, 2009. I will present a seminar on Thursday April 30, entitled Strategies for Dealing with the Plaintiff who has a Pre-morbid History of Depression, Prior Concussions or Other Medical Conditions.
Preliminary studies of a blockbuster drug from Roche's Genentech unit are strong enough to speed up its approval for brain cancer, federal cancer experts said Tuesday.
Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and at Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium, have identified a new role for certain lung cells in the immune response to airborne allergens. Many foreign substances, called antigens, are inhaled daily, but the lungs have mechanisms that usually prevent people from making unwanted immune responses to these materials.
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) is happy to announce the launch of the official website of the 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health, which will be held in
Cancun, Mexico on 3-7 December 2009.
New 911 tapes from the day actress Natasha Richardson suffered a fatal brain injury have raised questions about whether she could have been saved if treated sooner.
Most people under the age of 45 never consider themselves at risk of experiencing a stroke. While two-thirds of strokes occur in people over 65 years of age, the other one-third happens mostly in younger adults. Some strokes can even occur in babies.
A single daily pill that combines aspirin and four blood pressure and cholesterol medicines has passed its first big test, potentially offering a cheap, simple way to prevent both heart disease and stroke.
Stroke accounts for the third largest number of deaths in the United States annually and is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in adults. But there is good news. There are about 5.8 million stroke survivors alive today and the death rate from stroke has actually declined over recent years. Want some more good news? You can control some risk factors and potentially prevent a stroke.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a new analytical tool to answer the question of how our brain cells record outside stimuli and react to them.
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have been able to speed recovery and substantially reduce damage resulting from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies.
Michael J. Fox does not look back wistfully at his pre-Parkinson's disease days, when he starred in the TV shows "Family Ties" and "Spin City" and the "Back to the Future" movies. "There's no longing in it. There's
not this deep feeling of loss or anything," Fox told "Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer today. "It's just like, acknowledgement that that was part of what brought me to where I am now, and it was pretty fun."
Auti Angel has endured sexual abuse, dealt with racial identity and learned to live in a wheelchair, but that hasn’t deterred her from being positive - and trying to inspire people everywhere. Angel, a one-time dancer for N.W.A and LL Cool J , is a part of La Raza’s Women’s Week . Angel’s Tuesday night's appearance in the Great Hall of Coffman Union was co-sponsored by the Disabled Student Cultural Center.
John Feeley Jr. thought someone was playing an early April Fool's joke when he came home and spotted his wheelchair missing from his Upper Southampton driveway.
Rodriguez uses a wheelchair now, but still plays his favorite sport - basketball. Friend Alix Sabin said Christopher turns 12 on Wednesday, and the family shares one birthday wish. "It's that our community pulls together like they have done with Christopher and everyone give up their guns to make Oakland a better place for everybody." AUDIO LINK.
Scientists studying a mysterious neurological affliction in cats have discovered a surprising ability of the central nervous system to repair itself and restore function.
A new law named for "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve will coordinate research on paralysis and rehabilitation. President Barack Obama signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act on Monday, one of several pieces of legislation along with a measure designed to expand wilderness protection. Lawmakers brought almost 170 bills for Obama to sign.
Almost a decade has passed since maggots averted the amputation of Pam Mitchell's left foot, and the Akron resident still sounds tremendously grateful. In her case, maggot therapy accomplished something that modern medicine-specifically, three courses of antibiotics-was unable to do: Defeat a dangerous and persistent bone infection and heal the deep, open wounds that had developed on both of her feet.
Dr. Richard Dillon, Medical Director and Inventor of Circulator
BootTM, will share clinical data from 2,000 patients with chronic wounds--the therapy resulted in a 93% success rate in preventing amputations.
A two-month-old baby boy from Vancouver is in critical condition after a suspected assault. The boy, from the Musqueam First Nations reserve, was initially taken to hospital with a broken arm and later returned suffering "shaken baby syndrome," according to CTV News.
A 4-month-old girl who police said showed signs of shaken baby syndrome remains in critical condition while her father has been jailed on suspicion of child abuse.
A study in the April 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that low socioeconomic status independently predicts the poor acceptance of continuous positive airway pressure
(CPAP) therapy for obstructive sleep apnea, and patients with higher incomes are more likely to begin treatment. The authors suggest that CPAP support programs should be better tailored to the needs of low-income patients to improve CPAP acceptance and adherence.
The N.J. Supreme Court ruled on March 31, 1976, that Karen Quinlan could be removed from the respirator keeping her alive since she went into a coma after mixing alcohol and Valium at a party in 1975. After the respirator was disconnected, Quinlan remained in her coma and died in 1985 at age 31.
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) announced that it has begun enrolling patients in a Phase II clinical trial of cicletanine hydrochloride
(cicletanine), an oral agent in development for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension
(PAH). The study is designed to compare the efficacy, safety and tolerability of cicletanine to placebo in patients with PAH and will enroll 160 patients at approximately 60 investigational sites worldwide.
The allergen breathed in by a person with asthma triggers a proteinase or enzyme called MMP7 that activates a cascade of events to prompt an allergic reaction, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online in the journal Nature Immunology.
Jacqueline Louisa De Klerk has been sentenced in the Paarl Regional Court to two years' imprisonment, suspended for three years, after being found guilty earlier on two counts of child abuse relating to the injury of an 11-month-old girl in her care.
Siobhan Giunta works for Healthy Families Pasco-Hernando and recently gave a demonstration during a Rotary Club Meeting at the Heritage Springs Golf and Country Club in Trinity. Siobhan Giunta's job is to educate the community on how to prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome. It's a dramatization of the irreversible damage shaking a child can do to its developing brain. VIDEO LINK.
The effort that began in the early 1970s by a group of UW-Madison engineering students has grown into a center with a worldwide impact. The goal then was to help a child with cerebral palsy communicate better. Today, the work is having a broad impact on the lives of people with disabilities and the elderly worldwide. VIDEO LINK.
The former executive director of Special Olympics P.E.I. faces fraud and theft charges for allegedly pocketing thousands of dollars from the organization.
ASK not what you can do for disabled people, ask what disabled people can do for you, says education consultant Norman
Kunc, who presents an annual lecture series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
To that end, Donahue last October launched the Sarah Jane Brain Project. His efforts were aimed at jump-starting innovative treatment for brain injuries similar to the one his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter suffers. They spawned a nationwide upswell of sponsors to press for federal funding and international medical interaction for all victims of PTBI and Pediatric Acquired Brain Injuries
(PABI).
As we seek equity and inclusion for our sons and daughters with developmental disabilities, chronic health conditions or other special needs, we face challenges dealing with the mainstream community and within our own. Most individuals and advocates experiencing frustration and disappointment due to the existence of a 'disability hierarchy' disagree with the priorities and dismiss the authenticity of advocates with credentials from different communities or points of view.
The economic toll of disability can range from budget tightening to compensate for lost wages to filing for bankruptcy. And if you think there's little chance it will happen to you, think again.
Josh Basch could hardly contain his excitement as he watched his twin brother play for the Buena High sophomore basketball team. Josh kept asking his family when his season would finally start. He plays basketball for the Special Olympics.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki opened the 23rd annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic here last night, encouraging more than 400 participants he said had found their way "to the top of the mountain in search of miracles."
Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD), a leading provider of heart recovery products designed to recover hearts and eliminate in-hospital deaths from heart attacks and high risk percutaneous coronary interventions
(PCI), today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Premarket Approval Application
(PMA) supplement for the AB PortableTM driver.
President Obama signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act that will improve the quality of life for people living with paralysis and mobility impairments from any cause - stroke,
ALS, spinal cord injuries, and others.
After years of fighting for what he calls an "equal" bus service for disabled people living in Ocean City, one resident there says there's new hope, now that the town wants to work with him to find a solution. VIDEO LINK.
Thanks to the Shattuck Family Trust Fund, this summer, a portable mat will be rolled out each beach day, enabling all residents to gain easy access to the water.
PAINTING about his life and experiences in a self-portrait has resulted in Warrnambool's Danny Byrne crowned the first winner of a new art competition. The inaugural KarnivART competition aims to give artists with disabilities and mental illness a chance to showcase their work.
With record-breaking unemployment, many people are struggling to find work. The current job market is especially difficult for people with disabilities. Even in a good period for employment, people who are deaf, blind of have some other disability often have a hard time finding companies that will hire them. VIDEO LINK.
Is it ever OK to use the word "retard" in casual conversation? Hundreds of high school and college students across the country today have joined together to answer with an emphatic "No!"
The National Council on Disability (NCD) today released its annual report to the President and Congress calling for a new integrated approach to disability policy within the Federal Government.
The Beijing municipal government will give 220 million yuan ($32 million) annually in the next three years to more than 56,000 disabled residents to help them find jobs and develop careers, the local disabled people's federation said Tuesday.
A Williams Township group home for two men with developmental disabilities will be allowed to continue operating, the township zoning board unanimously decided tonight.
The majority of people with severe disabilities in Australian capital cities live in poorer suburbs with relatively few economic resources, a new report shows. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
(AIHW) report looked at the postcodes of people under 65 years who required assistance with daily activities in 2006.
You may have noticed people wearing special T-shirts Tuesday. The shirt says, "Spread the Word to End the Word," and is part of a nationwide effort to get people to stop using the R-word, or retard. VIDEO LINK.
The seventh annual Community Basketball game, played Tuesday, March 31, at the Atrium Family YMCA, featured clients of the Butler County Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities who were teamed with community members.
Thousands of developmentally disabled people are facing delays and lower levels of supervision in the wake of a decision to allow rising caseloads for workers coordinating their care, officials said.
Helen Hayes Hospital will host its second annual free "Adapted Sports and Recreation Expo" on Saturday, April 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the physical rehabilitation hospital in West Haverstraw.
The Special Olympics launched a campaign Tuesday to banish the word "retard," a casual insult that derives from an out-of-favor medical term and has long been considered inappropriate.
There has been much of promises and inspirational speeches to alleviate the plight of and in addressing the issue of Persons with Disabilities, but African governments have yet to translate them in to practice, the Federation of Ethiopian National Associations of Persons with Disabilities
(FENAPD) said on Monday "Governments of Africa should begin to realize that they can never be serious about national development while letting persons with disabilities to live in poverty, Kassahun
Yibeltal, FENAPD President, told a regional conference of parliamentarians and POWs from East and other African countries.
They gathered together on the steps of the Hall of Languages. Some remained in wheelchairs. Others stood alone. More wandered nearby passing out flyers.
No doubt about it, President Barack Obama "screwed up" in making a joke about the Special Olympics, says advocate Timothy Shriver Jr., but "it's not his fault."
By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering a stroke were able to regain some vision, according to scientists who published their results in the April 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Unite 2 Fight Paralysis celebrates the long-awaited signing of the first law to enhance federal support for paralysis research, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act
(CDRPA) Title XIV of H.R.146, the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.
Some parents of Franklin Learning Center students say they feel they were misled to open their children's records to the advocacy group that is accusing the school of disability violations.
It was a gorgeous, blue-sky early spring day here. But
Tuesday's rally in Amherst also benefited from great timing, just two weeks after President Obama kiddingly referred to his bowling skills as belonging in the Special Olympics. What a perfect backdrop for drawing attention to one of the last symbols of accepted intolerance in American society: The R-word - as in "retarded" or "retard."
There was not much in Jenny McCarthy's early career as a Playboy model and MTV star to suggest that she would become a passionate advocate for family issues, children's health and autism awareness. But the birth of her now almost seven-year old son Evan, who developed autism early in life, changed all of that.
The commissioners proclaimed yesterday "Spread the Word to End the Use of the R-Word Day" as part of a larger nationwide campaign against derogatory forms of the word "retarded."
Passive-aggressive blogging is the new passive-aggressive note-leaving. The crutches-bound blogger behind the People Who Sit In The Disability Seats When I’m Standing On My Crutches website documents able-bodied straphangers who won't give up their seat for the disabled. He says he doesn't take pictures of anyone "if there's an open seat within sight.
Quinn Bradlee was born with more than a few advantages. He has famous parents, former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and journalist Sally Quinn, and grew up in a historic mansion here in tony Georgetown. He has written a refreshingly honest memoir, "A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures."
The new center, 1055 Vista Chino, will provide students with disabilities from throughout the Coachella Valley access to technology such as Assistive Technology and Augmentative/Alternative Communication devices.
The Ixiaro vaccine to prevent Japanese encephalitis (JE) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the only sanctioned JE vaccine in the United States.
Millie Sauer did not even know she had suffered a stroke until she tried to read a book as she recovered from surgery and saw only a gray blur for part of the page.
When Li Mingqiu was two, his parents noticed that he had lost the ability to speak, didn't respond to his name, and was fixated by television commercials.
The American Medical Association is seeking an investigation of claims that editors of its leading medical journal threatened a whistleblower who pointed out a researcher's conflict of interest.
Taking the blood thinner Plavix along with aspirin helped prevent strokes and heart attacks in people with a common heartbeat abnormality that puts them at high risk of these problems, doctors reported Tuesday.
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