http://www.disabled-world.com/ Disability Community News and Information Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:29:35 PST en-us http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/down-syndrome-tests.php Cognitive Disabilities We did not miss a single case of Down syndrome with our overall screening program, which included an option for invasive testing. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:26 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/down-syndrome-tests.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/diphtheria.php Types of Disability Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that happens quickly and spreads easily, affecting a person's throat and nose. Children under the age of five years and adults over the age of sixty are at particular risk of the Diphtheria infection, as well as people who live in unclean and crowded conditions, people who are undernourished, and both adults and children who do not have current immunizations. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:30:15 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/diphtheria.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/bells-palsy.php Types of Disability Bell's palsy may also develop over a period of days. Because of the time period that it takes, rather quickly, people may think that they are experiencing a stroke, something that happens when a blood vessel in their brain becomes clogged or bursts. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:00:19 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/bells-palsy.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/psychological/bpd.php Psychological Disorders The experience of BPD can be distressing, not only for the person with the disorder, but for the people around them. Persons with BPD have a difficult time controlling their emotions and many times are in a state of upheaval. Childhood experiences or a brain dysfunction are potential reasons why. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:01:56 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/psychological/bpd.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/health-education-id.php Cognitive Disabilities Health Education Designed For Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: An Opportunity For Healthier Lives. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:49:35 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/health-education-id.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/sci-vitamin-b3.php Spinal Cord Injury Substances naturally produced by the human body may one day help prevent paralysis following a spinal cord injury, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. A recent $2.5 million grant from the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board will fund their research investigating this possibility. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:35:59 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/sci-vitamin-b3.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/tinnitus/tinnitus-sufferers.php Tinnitus As many as one in seven people will experience tinnitus, or ringing in their ears, at some time of their life, but not enough is being done to support patients who experience this distressing condition, according to an extensive research review in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:39:28 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/tinnitus/tinnitus-sufferers.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/mobility/parkinsons-disease/parkinsons-disease-cure.php Parkinson's Disease Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinson's disease and are looking for others. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:32:51 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/mobility/parkinsons-disease/parkinsons-disease-cure.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/spinal-cord-regeneration.php Spinal Cord Injury New research finds that adult neurons can still regenerate as long as 15 months after a spinal cord injury. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:44:59 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/spinal-cord-regeneration.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/sciatica-treatment.php Sciatica and Back Pain Chronic and severe sciatica causes widespread disability, and represents a significant unmet medical need. Localized administration of etanercept, a unique anti-inflammatory therapeutic, represents a revolutionary new approach for reducing nerve root inflammation. This off-label treatment method, invented by a Los Angeles physician, Edward Tobinick MD, has increasing scientific support, including new data from randomized, placebo-controlled studies. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:40:41 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/sciatica-treatment.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/gene-therapy-blind.php Vision Disability Study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, used gene therapy to safely improve vision in five children and seven adults with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA). Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:10:49 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/gene-therapy-blind.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/ocular-research-center.php Vision Disability As the first research center in the world to be directly combined with an eye bank, the Ocular Research Center provides a repository of healthy and diseased ocular tissue for researchers from academic institutions, government organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:16:19 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/ocular-research-center.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/tinnitus/tinnitus-sound.php Tinnitus Henry Ford Hospital study finds that a non-invasive imaging technique can actually aid in the diagnosis of tinnitus and may detect a reduction in symptoms after different treatments, offering hope to the more than 50 million patients with tinnitus. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:37:34 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/tinnitus/tinnitus-sound.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/back-pain-treatment.php Sciatica and Back Pain Barring a few exceptions, exercises for lower back pain treatment are effective for all types of back pain, be it pain in the lower back, mid back, or pain in the upper back. Exercises also provide treatment for back pain related to genetically or trauma related deformities and subsequent pain. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:06:46 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/back-pain-treatment.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/sci-immune-response.php Spinal Cord Injury After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything, those antibodies do there is unknown. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:01:53 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/sci-immune-response.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/drug-sci.php Spinal Cord Injury Currently, there are no treatments that can reverse the damage to the spinal cord, there are only approaches to prevent further damage and to help people return to an active lifestyle. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:54:40 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/drug-sci.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/invisible/metabolic-syndrome-costs.php Invisible Disabilities Risk factors for metabolic syndrome, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated blood lipid levels, can increase a person's healthcare costs nearly 1.6-fold, or about $2,000 per year. For each additional risk factor those costs rise an average of 24%. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:22:59 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/invisible/metabolic-syndrome-costs.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/hydrogel-spinal-cord.php Spinal Cord Injury Injecting biomaterial gel into a spinal cord injury site provides significantly improved healing, indicating that a "practical path" to treatment may be found for spinal injury patients. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:24:37 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/hydrogel-spinal-cord.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/deaf-patients.php Deaf Communication Under a settlement agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, deaf patients at the Fort Washington Medical Center in Prince George's County, Md., will be screened and provided with sign language interpreters whenever interpreter services are necessary for effective communication. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:58:03 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/deaf-patients.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/prenatal-testing-down-syndrome.php Cognitive Disabilities With new prenatal tests for Down syndrome on the horizon promising to be safer, more accurate, and available to women earlier in pregnancy, the medical community must come together and engage in dialogue about the impact of existing and expected tests, argues a new leading article published Online. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:32:24 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/prenatal-testing-down-syndrome.php