Autistic adults, adults with intellectual disability, and adults with mental health diagnoses have multiple risk factors for infection with COVID-19 and for experiencing more severe disease if they contract COVID-19, according ...
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The Tokyo Paralympic Games, which start today, will feature around 4,400 para athletes competing in 539 medal events across 22 sports.
Aug 24, 2021
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More than 4,000 athletes from around the world will compete at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, a tenfold increase since the first Paralympics in 1960. Despite the growth in Paralympic athletes, for most of the world's 1.5 billion ...
Aug 23, 2021
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During an ice storm, a person with a disability living in Canada's largest city didn't know where she would get her next meal. If she didn't have the money on hand to get food delivered, her plan was to drink a glass of water ...
Aug 19, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The use of 15 headache days/month as a threshold to distinguish episodic and chronic migraine does not capture the burden of illness, according to a study recently published online in Headache.
Aug 18, 2021
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For every youth who dies with injury from a firearm, at least four survive. These survivors led researchers at MUSC Health to look at new mental health diagnoses that may stem from nonfatal gunshot wounds in adolescents.
Jul 28, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Serious "long COVID" symptoms could qualify as a disability and make patients eligible for federal assistance, President Joe Biden said Monday.
Jul 27, 2021
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Researchers from the Royal Women's Hospital are calling for disabilities to be routinely asked about and recorded on patient maternity records to enable disability-aware care for women who need it throughout their pregnancy ...
Jul 20, 2021
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People with learning disabilities with COVID-19 are five times more likely to be admitted to hospital and eight times more likely to die compared with the general population of England, finds a study published by The BMJ ...
Jul 14, 2021
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The brain is wired for learning. With each experience, our neurons branch out to make new connections, laying down the circuitry of our long-term memories. Scientists call this trait plasticity, referring to an ability to ...
Jul 13, 2021
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