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The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) launched a pilot with StationMD, a physician service, to provide 24/7 urgent telemedicine for up to 5,000 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). StationMD uses telemedicine to...
The Kenyan government and bilateral partners should earmark additional resources towards programs that promote access to birth control services among women living with disabilities, campaigners said on Thursday. Mildred Omino, advocacy officer at Women and Realities...
Chinese Embassy in Mongolia on Friday donated 19 million Mongolian tugriks (7,037 U.S. dollars) to disabled children from poor families. The charity event entitled "Warm Heart," which was held at the Development Center for Disabled Children in the capital, supported a...
Wedging her way off a crowded bus, Yan Ming, 60, strolls down the road towards a small workshop with the help of a crutch and warmly greets her workmates as she goes in. She takes a seat, puts on her reading glasses and plays with her "dental drill" (an electric...
The Yalu River Park in the city of Dandong, northeast China's Liaoning Province, welcomed a group of special guests. Unlike most visitors looking for a glimpse of the DPRK-China border across the Yalu River, they came to test the newly built barrier-free designs of...
Unlike most doctors with stethoscopes in their hands, wheelchair-bound Song Yichuan treats his patients with a guitar, a piano and several microphones. Surrounded by five patients, among which four are sitting in wheelchairs, 34-year-old Song chooses a soothing song...
A team of oculists from China's Yunnan province have concluded a "Bright Journey" in Lao capital Vientiane from last Friday to Tuesday, which highlights the bilateral people-to-people friendship. The activity, running till Tuesday, provided free surgeries for 94 Lao...
A total of 800 disabled students are displaying in Istanbul their artworks which touch upon their pure imaginations and inner thoughts. The students, suffering from autism, mental disabilities and Down syndrome, created around 1,000 art pieces for 37 separate projects...
Israeli researchers have developed a joint treatment for autistic and Alzheimer's patients, Tel Aviv University (TAU) said Tuesday. In a study led by TAU researchers and published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, the team discovered a high overlap in Alzheimer's...
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