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Big C leads to the Big B (bankruptcy)
People with cancer are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as those without, according to a new study in Health Affairs. Medical expenses can be high even for those that have insurance, thanks to co-pays, deductibles and non-covered services. In addition, many cancer patients can’t work so aren’t earning income plus they may have other non-medical expenses like child care and transportation. Don’t expect a government policy solution anytime soon. So do your best to obtain health insurance and disability insurance and to set aside a rainy day fund. —– By David E. Williams of the He...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 15, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Patients Research Source Type: blogs

Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 22 minutes
By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes. An adult who spends an average of six hours a day watching TV over the course of a lifetime can expect to live 4.8 years fewer than a person who does not watch TV. References: Get Up. Get Out. Don't Sit. - NYTimes, 2012 http://nyti.ms/10oXBQd Comments from Twitter and Google Plus: Humera Naqvi, MD @nayab78: hmmm that means we ppl should be dying early taking the amount of tv watched but life expectancy has increased. K Dillon, RDMS,CPC-A @comalliwrites: Confounders & confirmation bias not accounted for... Timothy Cook: Great...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - May 15, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: NYTimes Exercise Source Type: blogs

Paula writes – #wca #bedroomtax #benefitsactions #DWP #disability
Paula writes: ”I am so incensed I am beyond anger, cried so many tears, and mourned many friends and fellow campaigners, spoke until I had no words left, stood until I could not stand up, walked steps in great pain on marches, endured some horrendous criticism for what i do and hate crime only recently. On Saturday night, I heard the news about Stephanie Boterill when I was in Glasgow, I sat there and cried for her. Every death from these callous policies affects me deeply. I know it does all of you. I feel powerless at times. Last night, in Bromley at the bedroom tax meeting I chaired, I listened to CLIVE BAULCH. H...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Robots in healthcare: scary, promising, or both?
Robot Aids in Therapy for Autistic Children Wall Street Journal (05/01/13) Shirley S. Wang University of Notre Dame researchers will present study findings at the annual conference of the International Society for Autism Research showing promise in the use of robots for teaching social skills to autistic children. The study, involving 19 autistic children, is believed to be the largest trial to date using robots in this way. The children interacted with a two-foot-tall robot therapist that was programmed to ask novel questions and engage children in conversation. The study participants showed greater conversational ...
Source: FutureHIT - Speculations on the Future of Health IT - May 15, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Hunscher Source Type: blogs

Big Blue pushes accessibility, with help from others
Back in the late 1970s, when I was Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy, the state disabilities commission ran an awareness event in which corporate and governmental leaders were given a disability for the day and were expected to try to carry out their work and personal functions. You might be given heavily fogged glasses to be partially sighted; or you might be confined to a wheelchair; or (in my case) you were given earmuffs that severely limited your ability to hear. At the end of the day, we all met to discuss what we had learned. My observation was that the disabilities tended to isolate pe...
Source: Running a hospital - May 14, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

The Best Yoga Moves for Triathletes
A bunch of SELF staffers are just weeks away from competing in the Aquaphor New York City Triathlon. While we're turning up the heat on training (6:30 am swims before work, anyone?), the thing that keeps us up at night isn't worry about the race itself -- rather, it's the fear of getting injured while we're training for the race. So we asked Stefanie Eris, national yoga director for exhale mindbody spa to teach us yoga poses that'll help us prep for the event without ending up on the disabled list. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - May 14, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Fitness biking recovery running stretching swimming toning moves triathlon yoga Source Type: blogs

Public attitudes towards welfare are hardening claims report from JRF #disability #poverty #mentalhealth
http://bit.ly/17nw2ep Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 14, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Dignity and the Day Program
I am in love with Nat’s Day Program provider, ASA (Autism Services Association). I went to their 50 year celebration today, and I was surrounded by ASA clients and staff. I also was sitting next to my old friend Margaret Bauman, who was one of the speakers (along with ASA Founding Parent Barbara Cutler and Martha Zeigler, two other Autism/Intellectual Disability Community Glitterati). When I walked into the chaotic, bright room, my eyes connected with Nat’s immediately. How does that happen? It’s like our bodies know the other is in the room before our minds! I sat down next to his lovely and lively job c...
Source: Susan's Blog - May 13, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Rebooting pyschiatry: time for a new set of disorders
I can't remember when I first decided that the psychiatric classifications I'd learned in medical school had outlived their usefulness. It was probably a gradual process, but by 2005 I wrote to a colleague "DSM IV was great in its day, but new knowledge is breaking down the simplistic classifications of the 1960s and 1970s. Schizophrenia, autism, etc -- bah, humbug. Those labels are better than nothing, but humans tend to confuse labels with reality …".A few months later I took my rants public and went on for about 30 posts or so. Soon I learned I wasn't alone, and by 2010 victory was in sight. I was a solitary cra...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - May 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: brain and mind neurodiversity diagnostic definition research schizophrenia autism Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 13th 2013
In this study we used the hMTH1-Tg mouse model to investigate how oxidative damage to nucleic acids affects aging. hMTH1-Tg mice express high levels of the hMTH1 hydrolase that degrades 8-oxodGTP and 8-oxoGTP and excludes 8-oxoguanine from both DNA and RNA. Compared to wild-type animals, hMTH1-overexpressing mice have significantly lower steady-state levels of 8-oxoguanine in both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of several organs, including the brain. hMTH1 overexpression prevents the age-dependent accumulation of DNA 8-oxoguanine that occurs in wild-type mice. These lower levels of oxidized guanines are associated with in...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Unthinking Autism Guide Shannon Rosa Attacks Autism Parents .... AGAIN.
Shannon Rosa, with the Twitter help of Seth Mnookin and Dr. Jon Brock is at it again, misrepresenting autism disorders and the state of knowledge about autism causation and of course blaming autism parents fighting for their children for the latest report of a professional caregiver abusing an autistic child because they dare talk honestly about the negative aspects of autism DISORDERS : "At their worst, negative media-sown autism messages influence people like Greg Simard, who brutally beat a 12-year-old, non-speaking autistic boy in his care. Simard justified his actions by saying of the boy, .......
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - May 12, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs

Celebrating Nursing
Over the past 6 weeks or so I can honestly admit that I have been taking things rather easy. I am now over the experience of organisational change and redundancy and from my encounters with colleagues employed in the new worlds of NHS England and the local Commissioning Support Unit, I am well shot of it all. My pension has now paid up (suggestions by NHS Pensions that it would all take 3 months were unfounded) and I am about to become an investor in ‘funds’. Soon, I will swop the Nursing Times for the Financial Times, well, maybe not. I have begun to consider what work I would rather do in the future and on ba...
Source: Life in the NHS - May 11, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Julie Tags: NHS Nursing Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Myth busting: facts and figures (Update from previous myth buster).
Reblogged from The Hardest Hit: A lot of myths, untruths and exaggerations are being peddled on the issue of disability benefits, particularly Disability Living Allowance (DLA). Here we set the record straight on some of the most regularly used myths for targeting cuts at disabled people support, some of which have been most recently given an airing by the Prime Minister himself: “The fact is that we are not cutting the money that is going into disability benefits. Read more… 2,436 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The future of intuitive technology and neurocognitive care?
This article presents testing of DANA by 224 active duty U.S. service members in five operationally relevant environments (desert, jungle, mountain, arctic, and shipboard). DANA was found to be a reliable instrument and compared favorably to other computer-based neurocognitive assessments. Implications for using DANA in far-forward military settings are discussed. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - May 10, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Cori Lathan Dana NASA neurobehavioral neurocognitive neurocognitive assessment NPR TBI Source Type: blogs

‘How the cuts target #disabled people’ by Dr SImon Duffy #ukmh #wrb
http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/type/text/briefing-on-how-cuts-are-targeted.html Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Pot Roast Heaven!
I just called mom to enquire about what's for dinner. Helen is cooking a pot roast with potatoes and carrots, green beans, and cornbread muffins. "Hot damn!" I said with excitement. Mom was getting ready to go to her beauty salon appointment. She goes three times a week – every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Mom is going through that subtle shift to little old lady hairdos. Dad says she can have "big hair" days which makes me smile and chuckle. She sure can!"I don't know where your daddy is," she told me. "He might be at work.""Don't you dare tell your daddy I am paying for those computer parts," my mother then told me a...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - May 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

How ADA-for-the-Web Regulations Menace Online Freedom
Walter Olson Were I asked to pick the most significant developing story about federal regulation that the press has not really caught onto yet, I might nominate the Obama administration’s apparent intent to publish new interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requiring that website operators make their sites “accessible” to users who are blind, deaf, intellectually disabled, or lacking in motor skills, to name but a few categories. While disabled advocates have been pursuing such interpretations of the ADA for more than a decade, several adverse federal court decisions greatly slowed down their m...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs

60% Of Claimants To Be Worse Off Under Universal Credit Says Child Poverty Charity
Reblogged from the void: A report released this week shows that Iain Duncan Smith's bodged attempts at welfare reform will see the incomes of the working poor, disabled people and parents savaged. Universal Credit is to be gradually introduced over the next four years and will replace most of the main in and out of work benefits. DWP Ministers have long claimed that the new benefit will make work pay, yet as details start to emerge about the endlessly complex new system, it seems that for most people this will be anything but the case. Read more… 557 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Jan Contemplates Becoming a Hermit
By Jan Chait Ever had one of "those" weeks? Sheesh! Both my Type 2 diabetes and my disability (one leg doesn't go all the way to the ground) were out to get me. The diabetes one was kind of stupid of me. All I was doing was trying to help a friend. She's blind and is looking around for a new insulin pump. She loves the one she has, but that one isn't made any more. It isn't easy for her, since she needs a pump with audible boluses and pump companies seem to be making beepless pumps these days. Who knew? I don't need audible boluses. One pump that has an audible bolus — which is also the one I have — is Tandem D...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - May 7, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs

One Woman Went To Work! #BADD13
Reblogged from Disability Matters UK: Large Plain Text Version One woman Went to Work BADD13 This is a belated Blogging Against Disablism Day, blog post... Getting to work is something many take for granted; it can be a bind, and if you rely on public transport it will have all manner of annoyances; Will the bus be on time? Will I get a seat? If your disabled the daily commute often comes with many other considerations, this blog is about one woman's commute to work - using photographs to illustrate the kind of barriers she faces that an able bodied commuter might not even have to think about. Read more… 831 mo...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 7, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

::sigh:: Brendan O’Neill at it again……. #disability
http://bit.ly/16LFwQx Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Urgent Press Release: NY Assembly Voting to Give Vaccines to Minors Without Parent’s Permission
Conclusion Please act now if you want to have a say in what vaccinations your children receive. These vaccinations are not as safe as the US government wants you to believe they are. If you are still not convinced, please watch the following two videos on the HPV vaccines. Gardasil. One More Girl Cervarix Video References 1. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00497&term=… 2. http://www.greenmedinfo.com/anti-therapeutic-action/vaccination-hepatitis-b… 3. http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/02/managing-editors-note-below… 4. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/24/hpv-vaccine-ave...
Source: vactruth.com - May 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Adverse Events Diane Harper gardasil Hepatitis B vaccine HPV Vaccine New York Source Type: blogs

Adult Autism Care in New Brunswick: An Open Letter to Premier David Alward
May 6, 2013 Honourable Premier David Alward Respected Cabinet Ministers and Party Leaders Dear Premier Alward I am the Acting President of the Autism Society New Brunswick and a parent that was involved, with many other parents, in the advocacy that led to the establishment of the UNB-CEL autism intervention training program, the provision of early autism intervention to children aged 2-5, UNB-CEL autism specific training of Education Aides and Resource Teachers and the reversal of the decision to close the Stan Cassidy Center tertiary care autism team. We also argued with some modest ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - May 6, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 6th 2013
Discussion Latest Headlines from Fight Aging! T-Regulatory Cells More Numerous in the Aged Immune System HMGA1 as a Potential Common Mechanism in Cancer A Skeptical View of Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Aging Protecting Cryonics Patients A Review of Adenylyl Cyclase Type 5 and Longevity in Mice On Extending Mouse Longevity Growth Hormone and IGF-1 in Aging IGF1R Levels in the Brain Correlate With Species Life Span Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics The Burrill and Buck Aging Meeting, May 20th 2013 SENS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2012 http://www.fightaging.org/archi...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Empathy
So Nat was hurt yesterday by one of his roommates. The roommate had had a meltdown and punched Nat in the chest and also hit the staff person and the other roommate. I was upset about this, especially after hearing that they had to turn around and go home right away. This means they did not get to go to their new friends’ group home. I gnashed my teeth and felt my anger bouncing around inside my belly, aiming to get out. But I knew I had to control it. My mantra in the end is, “They are Priority One for a reason.” Meaning, the Department of Developmental Services only grants Priority One status and fundin...
Source: Susan's Blog - May 2, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Feeding tubes and weird ideas
My favorie BADD post: Tube-ageddon. I haven't had much time to write anything here about the hell I went through getting my GJ tube. I had every indication for a GJ tube. I had gastroparesis so bad it was starting to affect my breathing, in a way that doctors said was likely to result in infection after infection until I died. From the emergency room onward, doctors were saying my best hope was to get a feeding tube. Yet the pressure I got from doctors, while in the hospital for one of those infections, was to just keep getting infections, go home, wait to die. Most of them wouldn't say that outright. But som...
Source: Ballastexistenz - May 2, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Amanda Tags: Abuse Autism Bullying Cognitive disability Degradation Developmental disability Disability Rights Discrimination Ethics Ethics, justice, etc. Food Hatred Medical Medical stuff Outside Perceptions Physical disability Power Source Type: blogs

The ESA 'Revolving Door' Process, and its Correlation with a Significant Increase in Deaths amongst the Disabled.
Reblogged from kittysjones: A Department for Work and Pensions FOI reveals that people having their claim for Employment Support Allowance (ESA) stopped, between October 2010 and November 2011, with a recorded date of death within six weeks of that claim ceasing, who were until recently claiming Incapacity Benefit, totalled 310. Between January and November 2011, those having their ESA claim ended, with a recorded date of death within six weeks of that claim ending totalled Read more… 978 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Universal Credit and Benefit Sanctions, What Every PCS Member Urgently Needs To Know
Reblogged from the void: Universal Credit may have been launched with a whimper - at just one Jobcentre affecting a handful of claimants - but unless urgent action is taken then it will prove devastating for low paid workers at the DWP, HMRC and elsewhere within both the public and private sectors. Universal Credit is not just an attack on unemployed, sick or disabled people, but everyone dependent on some form of support, such as Tax Credits or Housing Benefits. Read more… 1,141 more words (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 2, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

American Medical Association: Launches Improving Health Outcomes Initiative
To bolster ongoing efforts to address the leading causes of suffering and death in our nation and to engage the physician community in improving national health outcomes, the American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced the first phase of its new multi-year, multi-million dollar improving health outcomes (IHO) initiative: preventing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and improving health outcomes for those with these conditions. “Cardiovascular disease accounts for one-third of all deaths in our nation, and one-in-three adults could have diabetes by 2050 if current trends continue,” said AMA Preside...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 2, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Post Doctoral Position - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Obleser lab)
The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig and the Max Planck Research Group “Auditory Cognition” (headed by Jonas Obleser) are now offering a Postdoctoral researcher position, for initially 2 years, preferably starting by October 2013. Successful candidates will have a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, or natural sciences. Prior experience with either fMRI or EEG/MEG methods is expected, and an interest in further applying and combining both domains in their research is highly desirable. Candidates with a background and/or interest in advanced fMRI methods are p...
Source: Talking Brains - May 2, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs

Stroke: Do you know the signs?
May is Stroke Awareness Month. Stroke is the 4th leading cause of death, and a leading cause of disability among adults. According to the American Stroke Association, about 795,000 Americans suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year, stroke kills more than 128,000 people a year, and more than $38 billion is spent each year on stroke-related medical costs and disability. Strokes occur among people of all ages, and among otherwise healthy-looking women and men. Eighty percent of strokes are caused by clots in blood vessels in the brain blocking the flow of oxygen and nutrients to brain cells; 20 percent are caused by ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 1, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Stroke Source Type: blogs

Tinfoil hat analysis: Crypto-eugenics and the autism community
I believe in science and I also believe in scientific advancement. I have stated before that I am not a Luddite even though I sometimes take positions that might cause people to question.I am having another Luddite moment though.About a year ago I wrote a cautionary post to the autism community, advising them to embrace the DSM-V changes that would make diagnosis more difficult. In summary the post was a tinfoil hat analysis of eugenics and disabilities and reflected on what we have seen happen in the T21 community. Today I am thinking that embracing DSM-V changes is not enough to provide appropriat...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - May 1, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: Disability rights OT practice Source Type: blogs

Cost of Living: DI & LTCi
Sorry for the geek overload in the title, but we have some important info to share regarding your financial health. May is National Disability Insurance Awareness Month (DIAM), and to "celebrate" the occasion, the Council for Disability Awareness has rolled out some helpful new tools to help you calculate your EIQ (Earnable Income Quotient).It's pretty simple, really: you put in your age and income, when you want to retire, and the web-based calculator delivers the (good? bad?) news. It even has a helpful link to stats on how likely it is that an illness or injury could derail those plans.Assuming you make it to retirement...
Source: InsureBlog - May 1, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs

#Disabled Mary Laver, a Games Maker volunteer, Olympic torch bearer, now contemplating a hunger strike
http://bit.ly/18nnEYs Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - May 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

6 Steps Toward Resilience & Greater Happiness
The opposite of depression is not happiness, according to Peter Kramer, author of “Against Depression” and “Listening to Prozac,” it is resilience: the ability to cope with life’s frustrations without falling apart. Proper treatment doesn’t suppress emotions or dull a person’s ability to feel things deeply. It builds a protective layer — an emotional resilience — to safeguard a depressive from becoming overwhelmed and disabled by the difficulties of daily life. However, the tools found in happiness research are those I practice in my recovery from depression and anxiety, even though, theoreticall...
Source: World of Psychology - April 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Depression General Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Treatment Appropriate Response Blood Stream California At Berkeley Chronic Sleep Deprivation Cognitive Performance De Source Type: blogs

HHS OIG Provider Self Disclosure Protocol
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) recently updated OIG’s Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP). The revised protocol now supersedes and replaces the 1998 Federal Register Notice and the Open Letters, as described below (summarized from the new SDP). In addition to the new protocol, OIG also posted a new video podcast about the SDP, given by a lawyer from OIG’s counsel. These videos are part of OIG’s Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) Provider Compliance Training initiative. We previously reported in July of 2012 t...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

‘and in the beginning #Tories will roll’ Universal Credit #ukmh #disability #WOWpetition
and in the beginning what the Tories do, is they roll out Universal Credit in highly impoverished areas , knowing only too well that people there are less likely to have internet access or readily available computers. They are also likely to have complex social problems as well as increased disability or health concerns. Thus, when people don’t apply, because they can’t understand the process, or don’t have the support to access the application, and they drop off the ‘disability benefits’ system the Tories can shout ‘YOU SEE, WE WERE RIGHT, THEY ARE ALL VILE SCROUNGERS, SHIRKERS AND FR...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 29, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

SENS Research Foundation Annual Report for 2012
The SENS Research Foundation is one of the few organizations presently focused on developing medical technologies that will produce rejuvenation in the old. The Foundation researchers and staff undertake targeted research programs in areas that are not getting enough attention from the mainstream life science community, and engage in advocacy to convince more of the research community to work on the goal of reversing degenerative aging, thus preventing age-related disease, frailty, and disability, and extending healthy life. A newsletter from the Foundation arrived today, with a link to the Foundation's 2012 annual report...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Sad, Mad, or Bad?*
Until the last century, and really to any large extent not until somewhere around the middle of it, people were lucky if their physicians did them more good than harm. But then medicine achieved great triumphs and claimed immense cultural authority and prestige. This happened when biological science enabled physicians to identify specific disease processes and offer targeted, effective treatment.The huge win was antibiotics, which became widely available and effective around the time of World War II. People can argue about whether streptococci or mycobateria are really the ultimate cause of disease, or if it isn't the stre...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Wheely, wheely awesome.
So yesterday we all, as a flat, went off to a Go Kids Go wheelchair course. I’ve heard about these guys from Kate and Sean before, they’re a wheelchair skills teaching charity for kids and young people with mobility challenges. The thing that’s truly awesome about Go Kids Go is that, if they wish, everyone works in a wheelchair. Kids, siblings, carers, parents, grandparents. You want a chair? They’ll give you a chair for the day. My main drive for the day was similar in my drive to learn sign language. I feel it’s important that anybody involved in the care of kids is able to contribute to th...
Source: Trauma Queen - April 28, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Kal Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Listen to @Abilty_PTR challenge #Clegg over @Tanni_GT on Call Clegg 25/4 #wrigglewriggle #disability
http://vimeo.com/64791308 - around 12 mins in Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 27, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

*Petition Shout*: Work & Pensions Committee: Hold #IDS to account for his (mis) use of statistics. #wca #hatecrime #disability
Petition Link Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 27, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Independent Review Needed for Future DSM Revisions
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the association’s comprehensive guide that sets the classification, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders across the United States and the world. In an April 24 Health Affairs Web First analysis and commentary, Helena Hansen of New York University and coauthors argue that the revision process for the DSM-5 missed crucial population-level and social determinants of mental health disorders and their diagnoses. Some of these include environmental factors triggering biological responses that manifest in behavior; differing cultural perceptions in defining...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 26, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories Insurance Mental Health Nonmedical Determinants Payment Pharma Source Type: blogs

Sheltered Workshop Litigation in Oregon
I have just returned from the Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium sponsored by the National Federation of the Blind: Push Forward and Push Back--Continuing the Struggle for the Right to Live in the World. The Symposium is an annual event,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 26, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: HealthLawProf Hodnicki Source Type: blogs

Hyundai Thinks Suicide Should Help Sell Cars: The Pipe Job Ad
Hyundai, the world’s fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the world, apparently believes showing a man trying to kill himself in one of their vehicles is good marketing. The ad, called “Pipe Job” and created by the ad agency Innocean Europe, depicts a man taping a hose from a Hyundai ix35‘s exhaust pipe into the cabin, trying to commit suicide. It then shows the man sitting in the cabin, waiting to die. A few frames later, the garage lights come back on, and the man opens the garage door. The tag line is, “The New ix35 with 100% water emissions.” Yes, very tasteful. Maybe if you w...
Source: World of Psychology - April 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Ad Agency Automobile Manufacturer Cancer Patient Clinical Depression Commit Suicide Cupped Hands Depiction Disability Discrimination And Prejudic Source Type: blogs

Article: What Is Visual Processing?
What Is Visual Processing?http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/videos/what-is-visual-processingSent via Flipboard (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - April 24, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Devastating for #disabled #ILF challenge fails #WheresTheDignity
Article here Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 24, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

How’s this grab #disabled campaigners? #DWP sponsor National Disabilities Conference 2013 #ukmh
http://www.govknow.com/event-detail.html?id=449 Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 24, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

#DWP ban Capita’s #disability medical recording plans #ukmh #wca
read on: Benefits and Work Filed under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 24, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs