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<title><![CDATA[Mount Sinai Researchers Provide the First Comprehensive and Prospective Characterization of a Genetic Subtype of Autism]]></title>













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		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 intellectual, motor, and speech impairments in a subtype of autism called Phelan-McDermid Syndrome (PMS). The data are published online ...

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<title><![CDATA[Brain-Imaging Technique Can Help Diagnose Movement Disorders]]></title>













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		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 as Parkinson’s disease.Utilizing the diffusion tensor imaging technique, as it is known, could allow clinicians to assess pe...

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<title><![CDATA[New Tasks Become as Simple as Waving a Hand with Brain-Computer Interfaces]]></title>













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		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 technology could improve communication and daily life for a person who is paralyzed or has lost the ability to speak from a st...

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<title><![CDATA[Online Video to Help Recognize Early Signs of Autism]]></title>













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		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 recognition will be distributed to member pediatricians throughout the state. Developed by autism researchers at the Kennedy K...

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<title><![CDATA[10 Ways to Safeguard Against Falls]]></title>













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		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 unexpected tumble off a curb or trip over an extension cord.One of the critical goals of managing bone-thinning osteoporosis is to...

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<title><![CDATA[New Line of Self-Buttoning Shirts Simplifies Dressing with Magnets]]></title>













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		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 crosses our minds. For the 1 million people living with Parkinson’s disease and 50 million people living with arthritis in the...

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<title><![CDATA[Webinar Explores Benefits of Online Occupational Therapy in Special Education]]></title>













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		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 rigors of the Common Core implementation, special education administrators are trying—and seeing success with—new service de...

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<title><![CDATA[Dogs help vets with PTSD]]></title>













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		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 post traumatic stress disorder, Ramirez had to retire from the military. It wasn’t until February, when she was paired with a b...

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<title><![CDATA[Common Protein Known to Cause Autism Now Linked to Specific Behaviors]]></title>













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		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 FXS, and the damage it does—misshaping the brain’s synapses, the connections between neurons. But how that abnormal shaping of...

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<title><![CDATA[Interleukin 17F Level and Interferon Beta Response in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis]]></title>













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		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 interferon beta-1b among patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.Serum samples were analyzed with an immunoassay from...

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<title><![CDATA[Grant Funds Research Into Cardiac Stem Cells as Treatment for Heart Disease Related to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy]]></title>













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		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 treatment could be used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients who have developed heart disease.Coalition Duchenne is ...

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<title><![CDATA[New Funding to Help People with Disabilities Leave Wheelchairs Behind, Develop New Technology for Amputees]]></title>













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		Cadence Biomedical, maker of the KickstartTM Walking System that helps people with neurological conditions retrain their abilities to walk and regain their lives, today announced $1M in new grants from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program. The grant funds will ...

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<title><![CDATA[New Research Suggests Possible Direction for Treatment of Autism]]></title>













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		In the first successful experiment with humans using a treatment known as sensory-motor or environmental enrichment, researchers documented marked improvement in young autistic boys when compared to boys treated with traditional behavioral therapies, according to research published by the American P...

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<title><![CDATA[Five Exercises to Improve Hand Mobility and Reduce Pain]]></title>













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		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 usually suggest specific exercises depending on the condition. Some help increase a joint’s range of motion or lengthen the mus...

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<title><![CDATA[Disabled Patients Who Can&amp;#39;t Afford Their Meds Come to the ER More]]></title>













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		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 visit during a one-year period. The results of a new study are published online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine (“The ...

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<title><![CDATA[Ergonomic Products Help Therapists, Patients]]></title>













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		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 Patrick Carley, PT, DHA, MS, professor in the DPT program at American International College, Springfield, Mass. "The whole idea ...

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<title><![CDATA[Down Syndrome Neurons Grown From Stem Cells Show Signature Problems]]></title>













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		Down syndrome, the most common genetic form of intellectual disability, results from an extra copy of one chromosome. Although people with Down syndrome experience intellectual difficulties and other problems, scientists have had trouble identifying why that extra chromosome causes such widespread e...

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<title><![CDATA[Ride for Life Ceremony Honors ALS Patients and Families]]></title>













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		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 other ALS patients, rode onto the Stony Brook University Campus for the annual “Ride for Life” Celebration and Remembrance C...

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<title><![CDATA[Tavenner Confirmed as CMS Administrator]]></title>













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		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 leader since 2006.When Tavenner was first nominated in late 2011 she did not receive Senate confirmation. She succeeded form...

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<title><![CDATA[Women with Chronic Physical Disabilities are No Less Likely to Bear Children]]></title>













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		Like the general public, healthcare professionals may hold certain stereotypes regarding sexual activity and childbearing among women with disabilities. But a new study finds that women with chronic physical disabilities are about as likely as nondisabled women to say they are currently pregnant, af...

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