UK: Disabled see worst layoffs in decades
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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 is no place for them. The disabled that are looking for a new job are finding out that the rolls of unemployed able bodied workers is also at the highest in years. So while they are competing with an ever increasing unemployed group the disabled are running into discrimination from employers that do not want to hire the disabled.
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Older population means increasing disability population
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...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 more expensive than those for younger populations that typically do not see the doctor except for flu conditions. To offset these additional costs governmental agencies are trying to get the disabled back to work but are running into issues with employers. -
Possible changes to Medicare – Senate side
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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 an idea of what is going to be changed and who will have to deal with changes. Note that this document only goes over what the Senate has agreed to – the House bill is quite a bit different and still includes the ability for everyone to pay to enter Medicare with their own money (That was killed off by the insurance companies in the Senate version of the bill).
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New dangers of CT Scans
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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 top of her head to her right temple. This was the exact area that was radiated by the scanner. She hired a lawyer to help her deal with the hospital and the lawyer found two other cases that were almost identical. Presently Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles is being investigated for giving excess radiation to more than 250 patients. Further research is finding that depending on the type of scan the radiation could be up to 13 times higher than normal.
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Book publishers try to bilk the blind
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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 though these works have been paid for and were made available to libraries and other organizations that make them available to the public. The companies further complain that this treaty would diminish existing laws that protect the works from being pirated or otherwise stolen.
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YouTube now using captioning
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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 the captioning to understand what the people in the videos are saying. The captioning will originally be only in English but will eventually work with some 51 languages.
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Testify in congress for pain issues
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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 a list of what is needed and required, not what you need that ends up being paid for. So you don’t get what you need but rather what they think you need.
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Human body may have extra skin sensors
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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 to the brain. The find happened when doctors were trying to understand why two patients were having problems with feeling certain types of pain and touch. It turned out that these patients had no sensatory system in the skin that the rest of us did.
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Watch out for scams this season
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...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?
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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 for producing games that the disabled cannot play under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Rather than going that route, the Able Gamers Foundation is providing a point system for games so that the disabled can pick games they can play.
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