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Veterans? Families Seek Aid for Caregiver Role

From: New York Times

Veterans groups are pursuing legislation to allow families of soldiers with traumatic injuries to be paid for caregiving.



Long Overdue, Telecast Isn?t Short on Emotion

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.



Flu Vaccination Rates Lag For At-risk Adolescents

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.



A New Machine Helps Those With Disabilities

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.



This Journey Began Before Starting Line

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.



Astronauts To Vote From Space

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.



Difficult To Read Instructions Decrease Motivation

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.



How Women With Lupus Can Increase Chance For Healthy Pregnancies

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.



Masks, Hand Washing, Prevent Spread Of Flu-like Symptoms By Up To 50 Percent

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.



Space Tech Prosthetic Leg Helps To Reach Long-jump World Record

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.