Disability News: Latest Releases and Articles on Disabilities

Latest Disabled World Disability News, Events and Information

1 - Climate Change: A Critical Health Crisis

International experts warn of climate change challenges, threats, and the impact on health systems and emergency medicine systems worldwide. It is surprising how awareness is lacking in so many countries, as well as among emergency medicine societies. Some countries do not seem to be concerned at all. Yet this is going to affect rich and poor countries alike.

2 - WorldScribe: Real-Time Surrounding Descriptions for the Visually Impaired

A world of color and texture could soon become more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision through new software called WorldScribe. The tool uses generative AI (GenAI) language models to interpret the camera images and produce text and audio descriptions in real time to help users become aware of their surroundings more quickly.

3 - Exploring Greenville, South Carolina: A Travel Review

Travel journalist Victor Block reviews Greenville, South Carolina. With so much to see and do in Greenville, visitors there with limited time or seeking alternatives to walking might wish to take advantage of the list of available excursions.

4 - Victor Block Biography

Biography and information regarding Victor Block, a travel journalist and regular contributor of travel related material to Disabled World.

5 - Social Security Announces 2.5% Increase in Benefits for 2025

U.S. Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments will increase 2.5 percent in 2025. Social Security retirement benefits will increase by about $50 per month starting in January, 2025.

6 - OvarianVax: Creating An Ovarian Cancer Prevention Vaccine

If this research is successful, work will begin on clinical trials in the hope women could be offered this vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer in the first place. OvarianVax is one of several projects funded under Cancer Research UK's prevention research strategy, which aims to use discoveries in the lab to find more precise ways to prevent cancer.

7 - Scientists Issue Urgent Warning on Climate Emergency

Climate report warns of escalating crisis and urges immediate action as UN summit nears. Of the 35 planetary vital signs the scientists use to track climate change annually, 25 are at record extremes.

8 - National Inclusion Commission: Are We Truly Inclusive in the Digital Age?

Is Nepal's National Inclusion Commission (NIC) truly inclusive, particularly in terms of digital accessibility. As digital platforms become the primary gateway for accessing public services and engaging with government initiatives, excluding persons with disabilities from these spaces amounts to denying their basic rights. Therefore, it is imperative that the NIC and other public institutions prioritize digital inclusivity.

9 - America Receives an F for Its Academic Grading System

Professor gives the U.S. grading system an F as the current system can harm students' motivation, mental health and success. There have been inequities that have been baked into the fabric of American education from its founding. States and local governments have historically diverted more funding to wealthy white communities and less funding to communities that historically marginalized groups have lived in.

10 - Human Life Expectancy Growth Slows, Defying Medical Progress

Paper offers new evidence that humans are approaching a biologically based limit to length of life span. The analysis, conducted with researchers from the University of Hawaii, Harvard and UCLA, is the latest chapter in a three-decade debate over the potential limits of human longevity.

11 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Terms and Definitions

The terms listed in this glossary are designed to help you better understand discussions of gender and sexuality. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list but instead provides some basic terminology to support an introduction to related topics.

12 - How Many Gender Identities Exist? Updated 2024 List

Updated 2024 list of gender identities and the terms people use when identifying themselves and talking about gender identity. Essentialists argue that gender identity is determined at birth by biological and genetic factors.

13 - Can Sound Illusions Enchant Visually Impaired Listeners?

If you're born blind, you'll likely never have experienced a magic trick, so can we create tricks that could be enjoyed by people with blindness. Magic tricks that rely on sound are scarce. A new article explores why creating a magical experience using only sound may be challenging and underscores the importance of making magic accessible to people with blindness.

14 - Smartphone-based Scavenger Hunt Helps Identify Individuals at Risk for Dementia

The findings show potential of smartphone data, collected in conditions close to everyday life, for the early detection and monitoring of Alzheimer’s disease. Our study is based on a kind of scavenger hunt where participants had to find pre-specified points-of-interest. For this, they used a smartphone equipped with a special app that we developed.

15 - New Psychology Research Reveals How Our Brains Segment the Day into Chapters

What determines how the brain divides the day into individual events that we can understand and remember separately. The researchers measured where the brain created new chapters both by looking at MRI scans of the brain to identify fresh brain activity, and, in a separate group of participants, by asking them to press a button to indicate when they thought a new part of the story had begun.