www.sciencedaily.com - Compared to patients in seven other countries, chronically ill adults in the United States are far more likely to forgo care because of costs; they also experience the highest rates of medical errors, coordination problems, and high out-of-pocket costs, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund.... (Read More)

www.theaustralian.news.com.au - They include a Victorian man who gambled $12.9 million at Crown Casino's tables despite collecting $224 a week on the dole. A Centrelink probe has uncovered the gambling habits of 2300 pensioners and unemployed who spent at least $50,000 on casino chips each. Thirty welfare recipients - including nine Victorians - spent more than $1 million gambling at casinos.... (Read More)

www.strategypage.com - PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is becoming big business. The U.S. Veterans Administration is spending nearly $300 million a year on it (out of nearly $100 billion spent on veterans.) Lawyers are increasingly soliciting troops coming back from duty overseas, and urging them to claim they have Combat fatigue (or PTSD) and apply for disability benefits. Last year, this was big news in Australia, where there was a similar problem, but the involvement of crooked lawyers in disability scams has been big business in the United States for decades.... (Read More)

www.hatnews.org - Research released on Friday by the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) at City University London and Refugee Support/Metropolitan Support Trust (MST) has found that disabled refugees and asylum seekers in London are not receiving enough support from mainstream disability organisations, a number of whom are unclear about the rights and entitlements of these groups.... (Read More)

www.ctv.ca - An experimental treatment offered at a clinic in Israel may alleviate multiple sclerosis symptoms, even in patients who have an untreatable form of the disease. Researchers at the Tel Aviv Medical Centre have pioneered a procedure whereby they remove a patient's own mesenchymal stem cells - cells in our bone marrow that can turn into heart tissue, bone, cartilage and nerve cells - grow them into large quantities in a laboratory and inject them back into the patient.... (Read More)

www.rocklintoday.com - Over the last year, I've been attending graduate school and looking at research on the effect a child with a disability has on marital and family stability.... (Read More)

www.etaiwannews.com - The preservation and strengthening of Canada's Medicare system is very much an equality issue for people with disabilities. One of the most important roles of the public sector is to promote equality. And there is no one-single public policy instrument in Canada that promotes equality more so than our public Medicare system. Since the inception of Medicare, Canadian society has become much more inclusive of, accessible to and accepting of people with various types of disabilities.... (Read More)

www.healthnews.com - The number of seniors, aged 65 and older, who are being admitted into hospitals for the treatment of heart failure has more than doubled in the past three decades. The American Heart Association has estimated that the costs associated with this trend will reach almost $35 billion within the U.S. this year alone.... (Read More)

www.usnews.com - Coming on the heels of the discovery that veterans' benefit claims forms may have been shredded in regional offices nationwide, two veterans' organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. They're attacking a related and, they say, similarly egregious problem: the time it takes for the VA to make a decision on a disability claim.... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - Wounded service members leaving the military will have easier, quicker access to their veterans benefits due to the expansion of a pilot program that will offer streamlined disability evaluations that will reach 19 military installations, representing all military departments.... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - By age 2, children with autism show unusual patterns of eye contact compared with typically developing children. This symptom appears to be related to a child's level of impairment and may be a useful biomarker for diagnosing autism at an earlier age.... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - For those who just want to view all the action of Disney rides and the scenic views from home we have included several webcams and YouTube video footage of rides and attractions at Disneyland.... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - Using the Internet and streaming webcam viewing technology you can watch animals live on cams from some of the worlds top zoos plus some of the smaller zoos and wild life parks.... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - Find out when the space station and/or space shuttle will be overhead in your area and which direction to watch from to see it with the naked eye, binoculars, or telescope to Track the Space Station... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - The Australian Federal Government unveiled a package in wake of the global financial crisis. Single pensioners are set to receive a $1400 and couples a $2100 lump sum payment, and it will be paid to all categories of pensioners and carers. No wonder Australia is considered the "lucky country". Its a shame America cannot put forth a similar package, which would surely aid their rapidly failing economy.... (Read More)

www.disabled-world.com - The far-reaching changes to permanent disability regulations within the state’s workers’ compensation system will wait a little longer.... (Read More)