See what happens when forward-thinking women from around the world gather in one place to swap ideas at ?Rooms of Their Own: Women in the Knowledge Economy and Society?.
Although the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has helped increase awareness of barriers faced by people with disabilities, and advances in science and engineering have led to better assistive technologies that make it easier for individuals to lead productive, independent lives, outdated regulations too often impede access to health care coverage and assistive devices for many who need them, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine.
?”Children are like snowflakes, each one different, each one needing a different biomedical intervention,” said Shelley Reynolds of Unlocking Autism. ?”What makes treating autism difficult is that each combination to unlock each person affected is so unique.” As a result of advocacy efforts, the U.S. Congress provided $7.5 million in appropriations directed to the Department of Defense to initiate the Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program in 2007.
When does the wait time for cataract surgery cross over from being inconvenient to affecting health and quality of life? Dr. William Hodge and colleagues report on their systematic review of studies that assessed the relation between wait times for cataract surgery and patient outcomes.
‘Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders’ has just been published by the International Pediatric MS Study Group as a supplement to the journal Neurology. The Group was founded by the National MS Society (USA) to foster global cooperation in studying and addressing the challenges associated with what is generally thought of as an adult neurological disease when it occurs in a non-adult population.
American Academy of Ophthalmology says report on economic impact of vision problems shows need for greater investment in prevention and research.
A man?s vision has been restored by a corneal patch grown from adult stem cells by a team at the University of Melbourne?s Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) and the Bernard O?Brien Institute of Microsurgery (BOBIM).
A new University of Illinois at Chicago study appearing in the online edition of the journal Ophthalmology reports on the safety, efficacy and predictability of laser eye surgery — laser in situ keratomileusis or LASIK — in patients 40-69 years old.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers to possible serious health risks from eating olives that may be contaminated with a deadly bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. C. botulinum can cause botulism, a potentially fatal illness.
According to a study that appears in the April 17 issue of Neurology, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that natalizumab (TYSABRI?) ? a drug that slows disability and reduces relapse rates in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) ? also reduces vision loss in patients with relapsing MS.