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...e first to present the perspectives of people with disabilities regarding the effectiveness of the Americans with ...re satisfied with life and the more consumers with disabilities interact in the market place, the more satisfied with life they are. "This indicates the value behi...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...rns about how society might treat individuals with disabilities in a world where the birth of disabled persons might be preventable, and where the cost of testing and treatment might lead to disparities in who can afford them. A Need for Regulation The study reports that 84 percent of survey respondents are "co...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...h factors such as diabetes and weight. Women with disabilities that precluded employment were excluded from the study. Unemployed women reported the worst physical health, with 28 percent having high blood pressure and 6 percent, having either a self-reported heart attack, chest pain or stroke. Employed women ...Uric acid may help reduce effects of spinal cord injury, Jefferson researchers find
...ould support their own weight, despite having some disabilities due to the damage. Next, the scientists want to better understand how the peroxynitrite-mediated processes actually work, which is particularly important to learning how to control immune responses in the central nervous systems of both in mice and h...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...ople might think, people with severe illnesses and disabilities don't wallow in misery and self-pity all the time. In fact, a new study finds, such patients on the whole may be just as happy as those without major medical conditions. The finding adds to the growing body of evidence that ill and disabled people a...Auditory test to help identify learning impaired
...ommunication sciences and disorders and a learning disabilities specialist at Northwestern, are key contributors to the development of the BioMAP. ...Brain can be trained to process sound in alternate way, study shows
...eatment of hearing loss, autism, and other sensory disabilities in humans. It also gives clues, they say, about the process of learning and the way we perceive the world. "We addressed a very fundamental question," says Daniel B. Polley, PhD, lead author of the study. "When we notice a sound getting louder, what...Scholarship to attract 'top students' for optometry
...ly and children's vision with emphasis on learning disabilities in an optometric practice in Clear Lake, Texas, where she resides with her husband, Ron Hopping, O.D., a fellow optometrist, and her two sons. Before graduating from UH with her doctorate in optometry, she received her bachelor's degree in biology f...Federal forum reports Americans aging well, but gaps remain
... rates, the number of older Americans with chronic disabilities increased by only 600,000 from 6.2 million in 1984 to 6.8 million in 1999. This number would have been much higher had the disability rate not declined. In 2002, close to one-half of all older men and nearly one-third of older women reported tro...Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
...laboration Three-quarters agree that people with disabilities have some, but not enough, input during the develo...pment of assistive technology. 5% say people with disabilities have virtually no input at all. Nearly two-thirds believe there isn't enough best-practice shari...Promise for helping adults with dyslexia
... because dyslexia accounts for 80% of all learning disabilities in the U.S. and U.K. and affects between 5% and 17% of the population. "The majority of the dyslexic population are adults, many of whom suffer significant financial and emotional consequences," wrote the researchers. "Yet our knowledge about treatme...Significant pain relief following gastric bypass surgery
... leading outcome measure of osteoarthritis-related disabilities in the hip and knee; as well as the London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study Screening (LFESSQ), an index that test pain and fatigue criteria, Dr. Hooper and colleagues found that there was a dramatic resolution of fibromyalgia pain after surgery, whic...Epilepsy associated with higher risk for learning disabilities
...ople with both temporal lobe epilepsy and learning disabilities for early educational intervention and reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. ...Guideline evaluates treatment of infantile spasms
... children with infantile spasms have developmental disabilities later in life. "We wanted to develop this guideline because surveys of pediatric neurologists in the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom found very different approaches to treatment," said guideline co-author Mark Mackay, MBBS, FRACP, of the ...Recent research finds boys have more literacy problems than girls
... studies, about 20 percent of the boys had reading disabilities compared with about 11 percent of the girls. The research implies that reading disabilities are genetic. Boys are more likely to have a range of developmental difficulties, and dyslexia is one...Depressive symptoms in middle-aged inner-city African-Americans higher than expected
...nter their senior years and begin to encounter the disabilities that usually come with advanced age. "We wanted to see them as they started on the path of disability and studied their depressive symptoms because of the major impact of these depressive symptoms on physical as well as mental health," said Dr.Miller...Anemia associated with disability and poorer physical performance
...ON-SALEM, N.C. Older adults with anemia have more disabilities and score lower on physical performance and strength tests than those without anemia, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues in the current issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "Our re...Cincinnati children's study links autism and immunologic disorders
..., MD, a physician in the division of developmental disabilities at Cincinnati Children's and the study's lead author. Children with autism were less likely to be reported to have a history of asthma compared to otherwise healthy children. "This finding runs counter to trends in the general population, in which a...Emory researcher examines effects of antiepileptic drugs on pregnant women and their offspring
...e of these babies may develop birth defects, other disabilities or even die. Although the majority of children bor...ages of children with birth defects, developmental disabilities or death for each AED were as follows: carbamazepine 10 percent, lamotrigine two percent, phenytoin ......y -- have more risks of infant death and long-term disabilities such as cerebral palsy than births of single babies do. However, many couples seeking infertility treatments desire multiples and have poor knowledge particularly about the risks for twins, a University of Iowa study reported. The investigation found...