http://www.disabled-world.com/ Disability Community News and Information Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:38:43 PST en-us 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 http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/mental-disorders.php Cognitive Disabilities Mental disorders are a global problem and represent one of the biggest challenges for health care systems. In the world, there are some 500 million people suffering from mental disorders, and in the European Union, mental disorders range as one of the leading causes of disease burden. Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:11:18 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/mental-disorders.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/lip-reading.php Deaf Communication This research confirms how difficult the vital skill of lip-reading is to learn and why RNID is campaigning for people who are deaf or hard of hearing to have improved access to classes. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:08:00 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/hearing/communication/lip-reading.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/therapeutics-somatics.php Sciatica and Back Pain Drugs can provide temporary relief or for relief of new or momentary muscle spasms (cramp), but can't provide a satisfactory solution for long-term or severe problems. They generally consist of muscle relaxants, anti-inflammatories, and analgesics (pain meds). Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:11:38 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/therapeutics-somatics.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/overcoming-back-pain.php Sciatica and Back Pain According to the reports of the mass communications media, back pain afflicts eight out of ten of us some time in our lives. That's old news. Here's new news: a completely new method now exists for back pain, one that goes against the popular wisdom of how to deal with the condition and gets results quickly and consistently. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:42:27 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/spinal/backpain/overcoming-back-pain.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/aaidd-mr-related-disabilities.php Cognitive Disabilities The AAIDD is a website and organization that publishes two highly-ranked journals: the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AJIDD formerly AJMR), the premier journal in the field, and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), an informative policy and practice journal. Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:06:20 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/cognitive/aaidd-mr-related-disabilities.php