USA – Across the country, disabled Americans are struggling with high unemployment. And companies might be suffering because of it. In 2007, when Walgreens was building a high-tech distribution center in South Carolina, the retailer wanted 30% of the 800 jobs to be filled by disabled job-seekers. Not only did they beat that goal, but the center operated 20% more efficiently than other similar centers, according to a recent report from the Kessler Foundation, the National Organization on Disability and the Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.
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Everything within me groaned. Oh Lord, not again. Not another pressure sore. Not now. I’m starting a new job. I’m already behind from being sidetracked with a broken leg. I have family to take care of. I don’t have time for this. Enough’s enough!
But there it was–a definite, bloody, inflamed wound on the back of my left heel. How did it start? I wish I knew. But then, if I could have felt the cause of the pressure, it wouldn’t have deteriorated into a sore.
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RICHMOND, Calif. — When Joey Abicca pokes a metal crutch into the ground with his right arm, tiny motors start whirling around his left leg, lifting it and moving it forward. When he does the same with his left arm, the motors whir to life again and his right leg takes a step. The metallic whine is like something out of the movie “RoboCop.”
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Facebook isn’t just for connecting with friends – doctors are finding uses for the social network in diagnosis. Doctors from the Mayo Clinic used the social media site in investigating the stroke of a 56-year-old woman. They published a report about it in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
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Invitation to a 5-days training course under GRUNDTVIG EC programme. It is about training of trainers to provide basic ICT (Information & Communication Technologies) skills’ education to people with disabilities, taking on board their specific needs.
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Young physicians’ willingness to embrace mobile health technology is also giving them more flexibility, including to have lives outside their hospitals and medical practices, the Associated Press reports.
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(CBS News) For most people who are paralyzed, there is no treatment available to help them regain full function of their limbs. But, promising new research from a phase 1 study conducted at the University of Zurich sponsored by StemCells, Inc. shows that six months after the implantation of neural stem cells, two out of three complete injury patients – meaning they had no neurological function below the point of injury – were able to gain some sensory function.
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You often hear that tenacity and perseverance are musts for any model who wants to succeed in the industry. Well, Angela Rockwood has those in spades. After breaking into the business, she was in a horrific car accident that left her in a wheelchair. But instead of giving up, Rockwood decided that her injuries (which stripped her of the use of her legs and left her with extremely limited use of her arms) shouldn’t stop her from doing what she loves. And 11 years after that life-changing accident, she has achieved something she dreamed about, but never thought would really happen: Rockwood is modeling again, in a national campaign for Nordstrom.
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Fast Forward, LLC, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the National MS Society, is funding research at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, UK to screen for compounds that can stimulate myelin repair in MS. Myelin is the substance that surrounds nerve fibers and is a target of the immune attack on the brain and spinal cord in MS.
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The European Parliament promotes equality of opportunity and encourages applications from women and men with disabilities for its traineeship programmes. In 2006, as a positive action measure, the European Parliament launched a specific traineeship programme for people with disabilities.
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