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• Chamber Helps Disabled Across Florida | Florida Disability Attorney
  Jun 29, 2009

  Orlando is known for its sunny beaches and theme park attractions.  A group of concerned citizens have been working hard to make the city disability friendly as well.  The Chamber of Commerce for Persons with Disabilities, Inc. was formed two years ago by a local attorney.  Now the Chamber is hoping to expand nationwide.

  The board wants the Chamber to be a place where people with disabilities come to network and get help with entrepreneurial endeavors.

  One hurdle that disabled business owner's face is that their disability benefits often stop while they are still working on growing a successful business. 

  "The end result is to get off (Social Security) disability," said Rouge Gallart, president of the Central Florida Disability Chamber. "But while they're building their business, they may need services."

  Robby Sedlak has a spinal cord injury and uses a wheelchair.  However, his injury did not stop him from starting a concrete pumping business. 

  "It's something that I want to do for myself," said Sedlak. "There's so many other open opportunities out there, and I just don't know how to get them."

  Sedlak is currently working with the Chamber to create a business plan.  The plan should help him map out his company's strategy for growth.

  The Chamber is gaining in popularity and attention, something that can only help disabled people in Florida and around the country.

  If you need help filing for Social Security, veterans' or long-term disability please contact an attorney at LaVan & Neidenberg today for your free consultation.

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• Wal-Mart kicks an Injured Cop When He is Down
  May 01, 2009

  Wal-Mart now seems determined to keep disability benefits from all Americans, not merely its own employees. To make matters worse, the company has chosen to start its campaign with an injured police officer.
  
  The NW Arkansas Morning News recently reported how former Pine Bluff Police Officer Jimmy Singleton was patting down a suspect in 2003, when he was shot in the ankle and knocked unconscious from a blow to the head. He suffered neurological damage, and today is overly sensitive to light and suffers frequent migraines. The bullet remains lodged in his ankle, making it difficult to walk or stand up for long periods of time. Officer Singleton is now retired, but has spent the past 4 years waging a nasty court battle to receive disability benefits. - 2 - 10

• Leg pain could signal peripheral vascular disease risk
  Nov 17, 2008

  Symptoms of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) include pain, numbness, aching or heaviness in the leg muscles when walking or climbing stairs. Symptoms may also include cramping in the legs, buttocks, thighs, calves and feet.

  Factors that can cause plaque buildup include smoking, high amounts of certain fats in the blood, high blood pressure and high amounts of sugar in the blood due to diabetes, said Thomas Livingston, M.D., radiologist on the medical staff at Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth.

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• AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario nears human trials
  Nov 13, 2008

  Unlike other vaccines, which have used only a small amount of HIV's genetic material, virologist Dr. Chil-Yong Kang said his vaccine uses a whole dead HIV-1 virus, a technique Jonas Salk used in the polio vaccine. "We have engineered a virus in such a way that it can be produced in larger quantities in shorter periods of time and it is also non-pathogenic. In other words, it doesn't cause the disease," Kang said. "We have tested animals and they do respond to the vaccine and we now have to try it in humans."

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• Hypertension: Sleep Deprived People With Hypertension Stand Higher Heart Risk
  Nov 12, 2008

  “A good sleep of adequate duration is essential because sleep fragmentation and sleep deprivation, commonly seen in contemporary society, are associated with multiple health disorders, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD),” Dr. Eguchi of Jichi Medical University in Japan said.
  
  According to the National Sleep Foundation, a Washington-based organization that studies sleep and sleep disorders, adults should sleep at least seven hours a night, children ages 5 to 12 should get nine to eleven hours, while adolescents need 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 hours.

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• Study: Concerns on mixing Plavix, heartburn drugs
  Nov 12, 2008

  Researchers found that patients who were taking Plavix with popular prescription heartburn drugs, including AstraZeneca PLC's Nexium, were significantly more likely to be hospitalized for a heart attack, stroke, chest pain or a coronary artery bypass operation than those who took Plavix alone.

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• Diabetes Leg Pain and Injury
  Nov 12, 2008

  A new study found that the diabetics who check the temperature of their feet and lessen their activity when they find the temperature high showed infection at a lower rate. The signs and symptoms to show that the arterial problem is causing the diabetes leg pain are discoloring of the leg that is affected when it is dangling and the difference in the temperature in the leg that is affected. It will be cooler than the other one. Other signs are wounds that do not heal, change in sensation like tingling and the absence of pulse or at least diminished in the affected area.
  
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• Certain cancers and rare diseases get fast-track disability review
  Nov 07, 2008

  The Social Security Administration is launching the second piece of their Compassionate Allowances program which allows for an expedited decision to be made on cases where the claimant suffers from an eligible rare disease or cancer. The commissioner of Social Security, Michael J. Astrue, stated that this initiative will allow them to make decisions on cases where a claimant fits the criteria in a matter of days, rather than months or years. Once the Social Security's Compassionate Allowances program is fully implemented and combined with their Quick Disability Determination process, it should result in 6 to 9 percent of disability claims being decided in an average of six to eight days. These types of cases currently affect 250,000 people annually.
  
  The agency released their list of the 50 conditions that would render a claimant eligible to receive a compassionate allowance: 

   

  1	Acute Leukemia
  2	Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  3	Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
  4	Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  5	Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  6	Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
  7	Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  8	Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  9	Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  10	Canavan Disease (CD)
  11	Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
  12	Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
  13	Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
  14	Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
  15	Esophageal Cancer
  16	Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
  17	Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
  18	Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
  19	Gallbladder Cancer
  20	Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
  21	Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)
  22	Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
  23	Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
  24	Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
  25	Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
  26	Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
  27	Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  28	Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
  29	Liver Cancer
  30	Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
  31	Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
  32	Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
  33	Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  34	Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
  35	Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
  36	Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  37	Pancreatic Cancer
  38	Peritoneal Mesothelioma
  39	Pleural Mesothelioma
  40	Pompe Disease - Infantile
  41	Rett (RTT) Syndrome
  42	Salivary Tumors
  43	Sandhoff Disease
  44	Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
  45	Small Cell Lung Cancer
  46	Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  47	Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
  48	Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  49	Thyroid Cancer
  50	Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or  recurrent

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• Children With ADHD: Research Shows A Walk In The Park Improves Attention
  Oct 28, 2008

  During the walks, all of the children were unmedicated - those of the participants who normally took medications to control their Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms stayed off their medications on the days of the walks. Interestingly, Faber Taylor and Kuo, child environment and behavior researchers, found that a "dose of nature" may be as helpful - at least for a while - as a dose of stimulants. - 9 - 10

• Women With Fibromyalgia Benefit From Walking, Strength Training And Stretching Program
  Oct 28, 2008

  Women with fibromyalgia may experience significantly improved daily function and symptom relief after taking part in a program that includes walking, strength training and stretching, according to an article published in Archives of Internal Medicine. - 10 - 10

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