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Getting help when doctors give up
For those of you that have chronic pain problems, you know how difficult it can be to get help. Unrelenting pain that blasts through your pain medication can quickly stop you in your tracks. While most doctors prescribe pain killers to deal with these problems, there are times when you want to find the problem [...]
Regenerative medicine coming to your local hospital
Medicalnewstoday.com has a story about the advances in stem cell research and what we can expect to see over time. This type of medicine that will allow doctors to repair areas of damaged tissue that typically is cosidered beyond any medical procedure available now. Cells from your body that can be programmed to turn into [...]
Where to fill up your car?
Radio Iowa has a story about how do the disabled get their cars refueled. Millions of disabled people go to service stations, just to be turned away because the attendants refuse to service the disabled. Virtually all gas station attendants do not know that they must help a disabled person fill up their car and [...]
Disabled workers worth anything?
The Sidney Morning Herald has a story that asks what do the disabled bring to the table for a company. The Australians are trying to get the disabled off of the Social Security rolls and back into a working environment – with mixed results. The government gives the business money to hire a disabled person [...]
Disabled protest for housing
The Birmingham Post has a story about a group of wheelchair bound people locking their wheelchairs together with chains and locks to stop people from getting into governmental offices. The protesters complained that it takes too long to get paperwork through to have an existing house refitted and newly built houses are not built with [...]
Disabled workers losing jobs in large numbers
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the disabled are especially hard hit from the disintegrating economy. Companies that typically employ the mentally disabled are finding it almost impossible to get work in packaging, direct mailing, and assembly. Those jobs are being sent overseas to companies that only pay their employees cents an hour and do [...]
Exercise for the disabled
WFTV.com has a very important article on exercising and the disabled. There are many able bodied folks that just sit in front of the TV and eat. They don’t care about their health or weight. If you are stuck in a wheelchair, it can be a big issue trying to get proper exercise. Add problems [...]
Malta not following disability laws
The Times of Malta has a story about an agency that is supposed to make sure all buildings are accessible via wheelchair, but new building permits are going around the agency. The number of permits that the agency has vetted dropped by 40% compared to last year, but there has not been a 40% drop [...]
President Obama lays an egg
There have been numerous news articles reporting on the horrible behavior of our president on the Tonight Show. On the show, the president compared his bad bowling score to that of someone in the Special Olympics. Of course there was tremendous laughing on the show and everyone thought that it was funny and proper [...]
Skyrocketing prices keep disabled friendly cabs off the street
The Standard Freeholder reports that the high costs of refitting a car or van to take wheelchairs is do high that virtually no one is paying to field cabs to take the disabled. The cab companies look at how much it costs to refit just one vehicle and compare it to the number of disabled [...]
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