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UK: Disabled see worst layoffs in decades
Five percent of the disabled people that had a job have been laid off in the last 12 months as the ever enveloping recession hits all areas of employment. The job losses put the disabled people at risk in losing their cars and homes forcing them on the street or in nursing homes because there [...]
Older population means increasing disability population
After many warnings about the rapidly aging baby boomer generation were ignored, insurance companies are stating to deal with increasing disabled populations. Canada is especially seeing these changes because of their medical care system that covers everyone in the population regardless of their age or medical condition. Tests and procedures for the disabled are much [...]
Possible changes to Medicare – Senate side
After several months of infighting we now have a bill that the Senate has passed. However up to this point no one outside of congress really has had an idea of what will be changed or who will be effected by this legislation. The folks at Piconetwork have created a PDF document that gives everyone [...]
New dangers of CT Scans
Researchers are finding out that CT Scan systems are emitting more radiation than they should in many hospitals causing patients to experience radiation poisoning type conditions. A school teacher went in for a CT Scan and over the next several weeks found her hair falling out in a arc from her left temple across the [...]
Book publishers try to bilk the blind
Virtually all American companies tied to publishing books either on paper or electronically are fighting a proposal by the World International Property Organization to allow countries to share books that are in electronic format to be used by the blind. According to to the companies, the sharing of documents amounts to stealing their works even [...]
YouTube now using captioning
YouTube, one of the most popular sites for personal videos to be posted will be using an automated captioning service. This will finally allow those that have hearing problems to access the videos on this site. It also allows the disabled to share their videos knowing that other disabled people will be able to read [...]
Testify in congress for pain issues
Those having to deal with the federal government in the payment or remittance of equipment or services have an excellent idea of the red tape that is involved. For those of us with CRPS, it can be almost impossible to get the governmental people on the other end of the phone to understand. They have [...]
Human body may have extra skin sensors
Doctors have been working for years trying to understand the reasons behind migraines and fibromyalgia but have not found reasons behind the pain. Doctors from the University of Liverpool may have accidently found that the human body has nerves at the end of blood vessels and sweat glands that can report touch and pain back [...]
Watch out for scams this season
As we run around to purchase that special gift we all need to make sure that we do not fall prey to scam artists. Here are some to watch out for in your inbox or instant messenger:
Can the disabled play computer games?
Most people don’t think about the disabled when they make computer games and many of us cannot grab a game controller or use a mouse and keyboard effectively to play games. Some of us are frustrated that games are not designed with the disabled in mind to the point that one person is suing Sony [...]
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