Archive for October, 2009
Hobby Lobby loses ADA lawsuit
Hob-Lob Inc, better known as Hobby Lobby a gift and craft store chain has lost a major ADA lawsuit. The case started when a worker was injured and could no longer use a ladder in their job. Rather than finding a job that the worker could do within the company, Hobby Lobby decided to let [...]
Insurance company dropping sickest from policies
In several states Guradian Insurance is dropping those people that are the sickest and as such are the most expensive to keep alive. Regardless of the policy or payment record, the insurance company has decided that these people are costing the company too much money and need to be dropped. One executive sent an email [...]
Disabled losing dental coverage
In Florida, The Agency for Persons with Disabilities is charged to provide the disability community with as many services as possible. To pay for the services there are different levels or tiers that the disabled are placed in based on the services they used the year before. Because of the increasing number of people asking [...]
New Internet based study on CRPS looking for participants
The Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association is looking for participants in a new study of CRPS. You must have a diagnosis of either Type I or Type II to enter into this study. Note that this is an Internet study and not the traditional one where you go to a doctor or study center and [...]
New nasal stem cells successful in transplantation study
Researchers in Portugal and Wayne State University In Detroit, Michigan have finished a study of 20 patients with spinal cord injuries. All of the patients were at least paraplegic with one being tetraplegic were given the treatment which consisted of removal of scar tissue at the damage point in the spine and introduction of stem [...]
Caregiving resources on the web
Caregivers have a daunting task of trying to keep the person they are taking care of as safe and healthy as possible while trying to do the same for themselves. Sadly most stop taking care of themselves because there are not enough hours in the day to do everything. Over time they begin to gain [...]
Gov’t plans to get rid of disabled in “emergencies”
State governments are making plans on how to deal with disabled people during emergency situations. New York State has devised a set of triage standards that are to be followed by doctors during times of emergency. Originally public views were to be put into these standards, but that quickly fell by the way side as [...]
Gov’t report shows disabled ignored by states and businesses
The National, Council on Disability has written a report on the state of disability access to medical care in the United States. It is a sobering report showing the while some agencies are working hard to help the disabled and to remove barriers, both physical as well as administrative, others ignore virtually all federal laws. [...]
Five years after Christopher Reeves passed away
Spinal cord injuries were the non-existent medical problems that doctors and hospitals could ignore. No one knew about these types of injuries and many times the victim didn’t live very long to make much of a difference. As medical improved the injured lived longer, but little was done to improve their lives or to work [...]
Virus outbreak simulated event in N. Florida – Oct 17th
There are very few times where the disabled can help the first helpers on a scene to understand the best way to help those that are in trouble – this is one of them. Pandemic Pandemonium is an exercise for North Florida neighborhood and community leaders. The idea is to use real residents as a [...]
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