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Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Are On Prescription Drugs

Nearly 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling opioids a... Full Article

Mount Sinai Researchers Provide the First Comprehensive and Prospective Characterization of a Genetic Subtype of Autism
In the first prospective study of its kind, Seaver Autism Center researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provide new evidence of the severity of intellectua... Full Article

Brain-Imaging Technique Can Help Diagnose Movement Disorders
A new University of Florida study suggests a promising brain-imaging technique has the potential to improve diagnoses for the millions of people with movement disorders such a... Full Article

New Tasks Become as Simple as Waving a Hand with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those actions. This t... Full Article

Online Video to Help Recognize Early Signs of Autism
The Kennedy Krieger Institute and Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced that a first-of-its-kind, free online video tutorial on early autism r... Full Article

10 Ways to Safeguard Against Falls
How strong are your bones? You may have no idea—until a bone breaks when you push on a stuck window or bend down to pick up something you’ve dropped. Or worse, take an unexpec... Full Article

New Line of Self-Buttoning Shirts Simplifies Dressing with Magnets
Many of us stand in our closets in the morning staring at our racks of clothes agonizing over what to wear that day, but worrying about how we are going to get dressed never c... Full Article

Webinar Explores Benefits of Online Occupational Therapy in Special Education
With the demand for occupational therapy (OT) services growing due to increases in the cases of learning disabilities, sensory processing disorder and autism combined with the... Full Article

Dogs help vets with PTSD
After almost eight years and three tours of duty in the Navy, Melissa Ramirez returned to Southern California a different person. One of many service members diagnosed with po... Full Article

Common Protein Known to Cause Autism Now Linked to Specific Behaviors
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic malady that is the most common inherited cause of autism and intellectual disability. Brain scientists know the gene defect that causes F... Full Article

Interleukin 17F Level and Interferon Beta Response in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
A study by Hans-Peter Hartung, MD, of Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldoft, Germany, and colleagues examines the association between IL-17F and treatment response to interfe... Full Article

Grant Funds Research Into Cardiac Stem Cells as Treatment for Heart Disease Related to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Newport Beach-based nonprofit Coalition Duchenne has awarded a $150,000 grant to a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute team investigating whether an experimental cardiac stem cell tr... Full Article

New Funding to Help People with Disabilities Leave Wheelchairs Behind, Develop New Technology for Amputees
Cadence Biomedical, maker of the KickstartTM Walking System that helps people with neurological conditions retrain their abilities to walk and regain their lives, today announ... Full Article

New Research Suggests Possible Direction for Treatment of Autism
In the first successful experiment with humans using a treatment known as sensory-motor or environmental enrichment, researchers documented marked improvement in young autisti... Full Article

Five Exercises to Improve Hand Mobility and Reduce Pain
If you find daily tasks difficult to do because you suffer from stiffness, swelling, or pain in your hands, the right exercises can help get you back in motion. Therapists us... Full Article

Disabled Patients Who Can’t Afford Their Meds Come to the ER More
Disabled Medicare patients under the age of 65 who don’t take their prescription medications because of cost concerns are more likely to have at least one emergency department... Full Article

START-Advancing a Surgery-Free Treatment for Knee Osteoarthritis
Lindsay Tise is not the guy you would expect to see pumping iron at the gym. At 94 years old, he suffers from knee osteoarthritis, a debilitating yet common ailment for older... Full Article

Ergonomic Products Help Therapists, Patients
As technology advances, workplaces rapidly add new equipment to offices, factories and clinics. However, their employees still have the "same old human body," according to Pat... Full Article

Down Syndrome Neurons Grown From Stem Cells Show Signature Problems
Down syndrome, the most common genetic form of intellectual disability, results from an extra copy of one chromosome. Although people with Down syndrome experience intellectua... Full Article

Ride for Life Ceremony Honors ALS Patients and Families
Greeted by their families, supporters and a shining display of 6,000 pinwheels, Christopher Pendergast, a 20-year ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) patient and advocate, and... Full Article

MGH Institute to Launch New England’s First Entry-Level Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program
MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston will launch the first Entry-Level Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) degree program in New England beginning in June 2014, one ... Full Article

Early Bloomers: Therapy in the NICU
For babies born prematurely, the tenuous first weeks of life often are filled with myriad medical interventions in the neonatal intensive care unit to help them adjust to life... Full Article

Tavenner Confirmed as CMS Administrator
Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed by the Senate Wednesday to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 91-7 vote makes Tavenner the first confirmed CMS l... Full Article

The Right Stuff: These Simple Items Can Help You Strengthen Your Core
You needn’t spend a cent on fancy equipment to get a good workout. A standing core workout and floor core workout rely on body weight alone. With the help of some simple equip... Full Article

Holding Steady: Treating Essential Tremor
Essential tremor is less well known than Parkinson’s disease, but it is eight times more common, according to the International Essential Tremor Foundation. An estimated 10 mi... Full Article

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