Archive for May, 2009
Congress Notices Stimulus Money Disappearing
A Congressional staff report raps Florida and seven other states for misuse of Medicaid stimulus funds that were supposed to create health-care jobs and help newly uninsured people get coverage. The report raises a question of whether Florida could be held accountable for paying back diverted money. (Source Health News Florida)
Florida Health Care Association, which [...]
Scientists cure paralysis in mice
Scientists in Australia have cured Floppy Baby Syndrome in mice – for the first time. The team had been searching for the genes that caused the syndrome so that drugs could them be used to possibly correct the problem. Muscular actin was found to be missing in the children with this syndrome, and in it’s [...]
Pfizer offers drugs to those that have lost their jobs
Pfizer has created a program for those that have lost their jobs and health insurance to access medications for free. The program allows these individuals to continue their regimen for up to a year to allow the patient to get back to work and insurance. Over 70 Pfizer medications are covered by this plan, including [...]
Chinese stem cell therapy still very dangerous
Some of the disabled believe that there are treatments available overseas that can cure brain cancer or spinal cord damage. They believe that the FDA keeps usable techniques down so that pill companies can keep making billions off of the suffering of the few. But it has been shown that the vast majority of stem [...]
Disabled lose permission to pick doctors
One of the biggest changes for the newly disabled includes others making decisions for them. While this is a good idea in situations where the person is in the hospital and unconscious, most other times it is a loss of rights. Spinal cord injuries do not always effect the brain, and as such, those without [...]
How to deal with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Neurology Today has an extensive story on CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), explaining what it is, what to look for if you think you have it, and what treatments are available. Rather than a simple web page, this is a technically written article on the syndrome that is attacking Americans in record numbers. Those with [...]
Today: National Call-in day (May 13th)
The Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities has ask us to post this to the disabled community. Note that the call in is today so get ot your telephones!
NCIL has joined with CCD in a National Call in Day to push for long term care services in health care reform. Please join the movement and let [...]
Study shows chronic pain is treatable with acupuncture
A group of 638 people that complained to have chronic back pain were split into two different groups. The first group was given acupuncture treatment at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and finally for the year. The second group was given pokes in the arm with a toothpick and told that it was a [...]
Handicapped parking spots not for the disabled in Oregon
Gordon Pike, a quadriplegic since a 1969 injury while in Vietnam, found that he was not allowed to park in the disabled parking spots. The Portland Police have brought in volunteers to police parking in the city and decided to go after Mr. Pike. After arbitrarily deciding that Mr. Pike’s parking permit was not invalid [...]
Bolingbrook Illinois implements Visitability
Concrete Change has sent us an article about an Illinois city that enforces building standards for the disabled. All homes are built so that someone in a wheelchair can get into any home first floor without help. This is an excellent example that we all need to bring to our communities and prove it can [...]
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