Disabilities Industry News & Blogs

Industry News & Blogs

Add has launched a unique Web site for people with developmental disabilities in Central Ohio |
www.prlog.org | Feb 13, 2012
Add has launched a unique Web site for people with developmental disabilities in Central Ohio. Whether someone with developmental disabilities needs a place to live, work, learn or connect,www.addohio.org makes it happen. - PR11797741

RetroSense Therapeutics’ Blindness Therapy Lands Investment | Xconomy
www.xconomy.com | Feb 13, 2012
On Friday, the Maryland-based Foundation for Fighting Blindness announced it has invested $250,000 in a vision-restoring therapy developed by Ann Arbor,

Blindness eased by historic stem cell treatment
www.newscientist.com | Jan 25, 2012
People with eye degeneration report better vision after controversial treatment based on human embryonic stem cells

Diabetes-related blindness and cataracts top the agenda at prestigious international congress |
www.ameinfo.com | Jan 22, 2012
The prevention and treatment of diabetes-related blindness and cataracts will be key topics at the World Ophthalmology Congress 2012 (WOC2012), being held in Abu Dhabi in February. WOC 2012, which...

Nigerians demonstrate against hike in gas prices - The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com | Jan 9, 2012
Widespread anger could be felt among protesters upset by the ingrained graft and failures of the African country's young democracy

Focus on a brighter future - FT.com
www.ft.com | Nov 20, 2011
With one hand, Ubandoma Adamu grips a staff for support; with the other he scoops up water from the Zamfara river, joyfully splashing it across his face. The river in Nigeria’s poor, remote northern state of Zamfara has always played a central part

Geron abandons stem cell therapy as treatment for paralysis | Science | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk | Nov 15, 2011
US biotech company Geron blames economic conditions for its decision to abandon the first-ever human trial of its kind

Novel drug to slow cataracts on their path to causing blindness - UQ News Online - The University
www.uq.edu.au | Sep 5, 2011
The innovators behind commercialising a world-first drug to slow cataract growth and to delay cataracts forming, have been named as one of five finalists in The University of Queensland (UQ) Business School’s $100,000 Enterprize business plan competition.

Harlan Green: The Fed's Paralysis -- Who Will Do the Right Thing?
www.huffingtonpost.com | Aug 31, 2011
Why so much emphasis on debt, rather than recovery? It is because of timidity on all sides, from the White House and Congress.

Matters Concerning Ponsetti Method for Clubfoot
www.excelsiorbiz.com | Aug 30, 2011
Every single mother or father wants their own baby being healthy. They will check situations including the quantity of fingers. One particular ailment that will