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From: New York Times
Veterans groups are pursuing legislation to allow families of soldiers with traumatic injuries to be paid for caregiving.
From: New York Times
NBC?s 90-minute documentary about the Paralympics is a continuous ?Oh my? journey that should not have taken this long to see.
From: ScienceDaily
Influenza vaccination rates are still far too low for adolescents who suffer from asthma and other illnesses that predispose them to complications from the flu.
From: New York Times
New voting machines will have an audio component for voters with compromised sight, and a sip-and-puff attachment and foot paddles for voters with limited or no upper-body movement.
From: New York Times
On Sunday, Nadine McNeil will race in the New York City Marathon on her handcycle for the fourth time while her autistic son, Tyler, runs the race for the first time.
From: ScienceDaily
In this day and age, people engage in their right to vote from all over the world. But this Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts.
From: ScienceDaily
A new study shows that if directions for a task are presented in a difficult-to-read style, the task will be viewed as being difficult, taking a long time to complete and lead to decreased motivation for completing the task.
From: ScienceDaily
In the not so distant past, women with systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, were advised not to have children, and if they became pregnant, to have therapeutic abortions to prevent severe flares of their lupus. Research by rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, in patients with lupus who have had successful pregnancies is yielding insights that support a reversal of that thinking.
From: ScienceDaily
Wearing masks and using alcohol-based hand sanitizers may prevent the spread of flu symptoms by as much as 50 percent, a new study suggests.
From: ScienceDaily
German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.
