A need for accommodation: a handful of programs have stepped forward to help the physically disabled.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that 4.7 million American adults with physical disabilities also have a co-occurring substance use problem. People with disabilities, encompassing a range of conditions that includes deafness, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, experience substance abuse at two to four times the rate...

The Medical Sonata: the hunt continues for diagnostic clues to Beethoven's gifts and griefs.
Diagnosing Genius: the Life and Death of Beethoven Francois Martin Mai McGill-Queen's University Press 270 pages, softcover ISBN 9780773531901 When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827 he was acknowledged as the pre-eminent composer of his generation. Twenty thousand people attended his funeral to honour his memory....

SC bends rule to reward CRPF constable.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a CRPF constable who stood guard braving heavy snowfall, became an invalid and lost his job. While on guard duty in Srinagar to protect citizens against terrorists in January 1990, Bashirbhai Khilji refused to take cover...

An objective aural-relative in Middlemarch.
Jubal ... watched the hammer, till his eyes, No longer following its fall or rise, Seemed glad with something that they could not see, But only listened to--some melody, Wherein dumb longings inward speech had found, Won from the common store of struggling sound. --George Eliot, "The Legend of...

Students to get health cards.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: All schoolchildren in India, above class V, will soon be screened for diseases once a year. In a massive National School Health Programme being planned jointly by the ministries of health and HRD, children across the country will be given...

Cure on a Sabbath.
John 5:1-16 THERE was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man...

Amyloidosis of the external auditory canal and middle ear: unusual ear tumor.
Abstract Amyloidosis of the ear is rare. We describe the case of a 41-year-old man who had localized amyloidosis that involved the external auditory canal and middle ear. To the best of our knowledge, only 4 other cases of amyloidosis involving the external auditory canal have been...

Swirsky-Sacchetti T, Gilrain K, Mandel E, Mandel S: The neuropsychology of music.
Swirsky-Sacchetti T, Gilrain K, Mandel E, Mandel S: The neuropsychology of music. J Singing 2006;62(3):289-294. Neuropsychology is the science of brain-behavior relationships; it applies to all forms of human behavior, including music. The authors begin with information gleaned from people with acquired brain abnormalities that render their...

New assay takes sting out of chronic urticaria.
KEYSTONE, COLO. -- A new in vitro diagnostic assay that detects antibodies responsible for about 40% of chronic idiopathic urticaria is now available, Dr. Mark Boguniewicz said at a meeting on allergy/clinical immunology, asthma, and pulmonary medicine. The test detects upregulation of CD203c, an ectoenzyme expressed only...

Using electropalatographic feedback to treat the speech of a child with severe-to-profound hearing loss.
Abstract The speech production of a 7-year-old child with severe-to-profound hearing loss and severe speech disorder was treated using visual feedback via electropalatography (EPG). The child's productions of /k/ and /t/ were treated in consonant-vowel syllables in three vowel contexts. A single-subject multiple-baseline design was used to...