Empowering Life Skills Through Cooking Training: Prayatna Nepal's Pioneering Initiative in Nepal
Jalasa Sapkota delves into the significance, impact, and necessity of cooking skill training for visually impaired women, drawing insights from the initiatives conducted by Prayatna Nepal (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 20, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Cooking Tips and Recipes Source Type: news
Influence and Responsibility: Higher Education's Role in Shaping Societal Perceptions, Policy, and Knowledge on Service Dogs, Disability, and Inclusion
Allison Gainer writes on university responsibility for inclusion education and actively combating ableism, particularly regarding students accompanied by service dogs (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 20, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Service and Therapy Animals Source Type: news
Finding Balance in Aging
Tsara Shelton provides us with her perspective of aging holistically (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 19, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Tsara ' s Column Source Type: news
The gendered context of women charged with violent offences in the forensic psychiatric setting - Nagdee M, Artz L, Subramaney U, Young C, Pieterse A, Pettitt J.
BACKGROUND: Women charged with violent offences may be referred by courts for forensic psychiatric assessment to determine whether mental disorder or intellectual disability impacts their fitness to stand trial and/or criminal responsibility. The profile o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Prime Minister should focus on the NHS, not demonise those too sick to work
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s proposals on welfare reform today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“The Prime Minister has promised and failed to cut NHS waiting lists.
“Worse still, his government has damaged the public services people were once able to rely upon to get better and stay healthy.
“Lengthy waits for NHS operations and treatment have left people languishing at home, too sick or injured to work. That’s a personal tragedy for them and terrible for the economy too.
“Instead of hostile rhetoric on benefits, ministers should be recruiting to fill the huge...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 19, 2024 Category: UK Health Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Christina McAnea NHS Source Type: news
National Council on Disability: Meetings; Sunshine Act
The National Council on Disability will hold a virtual quarterly business meeting on May 9, 2024, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. Eastern. Agenda items include reports from the Executive Committee and Chair, policy updates, policy proposals for fiscal year 2025, a presentation by the Intertribal Disability Advisory Council (IDAC) on living with a disability on tribal lands, a public comment session focused on public facilities and public transportation, and Council Member training on National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements.Registration is required. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 19, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
RHS: Notice of Solicitation of Applications for Section 514 Off-Farm Labor Housing Loans and Section 516 Off-Farm Labor Housing Grants for New Construction for Fiscal Year 2024
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is accepting pre-applications for Section 514 Off-Farm Labor Housing (Off-FLH) loans and Section 516 Off-FLH grants for the construction of new off-farm FLH units for domestic farm laborers, retired domestic farm laborers, or disabled domestic farm laborers. This program aims to increase the supply of affordable housing for farm laborers. Pre-applications will be accepted until July 3, 2024. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 19, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Wheelchair users turned away from mammogram clinics
A Quebec disability advocacy group says people who use wheelchairs are getting turned away from mammograms clinics. The Regroupement des activistes pour l'inclusion au Québec says nearly half of 50 designated screening clinics it called in Montreal could not accommodate someone using a wheelchair. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors Need to Get Better at Recognizing Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Whether fictional or fact-based, Munchausen syndrome by proxy grips the public. Media depictions in The Sixth Sense and Sharp Objects and real-life news coverage of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s December 2023 release from jail are hard to look away from. The most well-known cases—real or dramatized—are often the starkest ones, but Munchausen by proxy comes in subtler, harder-to-detect forms too.
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“The media are fascinated, but they tend to depict the most extreme cases,” says Dr. Marc D. Feldman, distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Ass...
Source: TIME: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Klein Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
UK Healthcare Organizations Receiving Payments From Medical Device Industry
Medical device firms paying millions to UK healthcare organisations, including the NHS, according to a new report (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 18, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Europe Source Type: news
New Urine Test Identifies High-grade Prostate Cancer, Reducing Need for Unwarranted Biopsies
This new urine sample test looks at 18 genes and is specifically developed to pick out cancers that need immediate treatment over the slow-growing type (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 18, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Prostate Cancer Source Type: news
EURO 2024: Top Football Stadiums with Best Accessibility
Ranking the most accessible stadiums for UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany using the percentrank method based on: wheelchair seating, accessible seating, toilets, parking, and services (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 18, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Football Information Source Type: news
The effects of postural support padding modifications to child restraints for children with disability on crash protection - Cook L, Brown J, Kent N, Whyte T, Bilston LE.
OBJECTIVE: Many children with physical disabilities need additional postural support when sitting and supplementary padding is used on standards approved child restraints to achieve this when traveling in a motor vehicle. However, the effect of this paddin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Graphitisation: Recreating Plausible Conditions for the Origin of Life
Scientists suggest molecules could have formed from a process known as graphitisation which could allow us to recreate plausible conditions for emergence of life (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 18, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Anthropology and Disability Source Type: news
Times Radio ’s Darryl Morris: ADHD is ‘perfect for journalism’
Times Radio journalist Darryl Morris was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. He began his radio career at the BBC in 2006 as a production assistant on Radio Manchester, worked as a presenter at Bauer Media for six years and joined Times Radio in 2018. He said although ADHD is a disability, he does not…#timesradio #darrylmorris #radiomanchester #bauermedia #pressgazette #adhd #google #lydiawilkins #nancydoyle #letterspage (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
