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DOHA, Qater, April 18: The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) recently hosted the fifth Gulf Disability Week.
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April 19: MAXIS recently reached out to visually impaired community in the Klang Valley with a special offer on the iPhone 3GS – with a RM500 discount off the phone with a sign-up for an iValue plan.
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April 17: One in five American children has a diagnosable mental health disorder and kids in military families have an even higher incidence of emotional and behavioral problems, according to a press release from the National Center for Children in Povert...
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Quebec City, April 16: Researchers from Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine and the CHUQ Research Center have proven that it is possible to repair the defective gene responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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April 16: Ricky Heilbron is racing a timer as he shoves metal pegs into a wooden board. The 9-year-old wears blue-tinted glasses and a buzzer on his left ear — visual and audio stimulation for the right side of his brain.
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Lucknow, (India) 16 April: In a significant study which may force India and a few other countries to change polio eradication strategy, experts from Britain, India and the WHO have found that even vaccinated children in India play a role in transmitting...
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NEW DELHI, April 16: Migration to major cities in India is on the rise, thanks to increasingly unpredictable rains and fluctuating farm income, and is complicating an old battle: that to eradicate polio.
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April 16: Few can legitimately boast that an iPhone application changed their life but for 10-year-old Grace Domican, unable to speak due to autism, the touchscreen phone has given her a voice for the first time.
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 16: The Transport Ministry is planning to improve access for disabled at 10 more KTM Komuter station.
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Philippines, April 16: PRESIDENT GLORIA Macapagal-Arroyo has signed into law a measure that will ensure the implementation of programs and services for persons with disabilities in local government units.
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Baku, April 16: The Azerbaijani Ministry of Labour & Social Protection has started creation of single database for complex settlement of problems of disabled persons.
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MALE, April 15: Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) has revealed there are around 24,000 disabled people in the Maldives.
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RAWALPINDI, April 15: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Wednesday announced quota based scholarships on merit for special students passing matriculation examinations in 2009, said a BISE spokesman on Wednesday.
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April 15: Almost a quarter of disabled people are still regularly suffering from discrimination, a charity has warned.
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April 15: A San Antonio teenager is taking part in an exciting medical study. She's helping test a device designed to help paraplegics walk on their own.
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April 15: People with hearing disability often fails to sense urgent situations and becomes more vulnerable during emergencies.
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April 14: Blind people can now browse some government Web sites. Recently, a government Web portal – shanghai.gov.cn – together with the Web sites of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, Shanghai Bureau of Justice and Shanghai Municipal Human Resources
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JEDDAH, April 14: A new e-learning program for blind people called VRT will be announced at the annual general assembly of Ebsar Foundation in Jeddah on April 29.
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Derby, April 14: A DISABILITY group has criticised the design of Derby's new bus station.And Derby Disabled People's Diversity Forum has pledged to carry out an inspection of the building and log the full extent of the problems for disabled users.
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HA NOI, April 14: Thousands of disabled people nationwide are going to be provided with the opportunity to take work and live independently from their families through projects providing financial and technical assistance, according to the Association for...
