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Reporting from Chicago — Researchers have found that many people with autism share common genetic variations, a discovery that may improve diagnosis and offers the promise of developing treatments for the frustratingly mysterious disorder.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into the contentious debate that takes place in public schools every day between parents seeking special education services for their children and school administrators who are trying to contain costs.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. – The complexion of this overwhelmingly white city is undergoing a dramatic change from a continuing surge of refugees, many of whom are now encountering severe stress that officials and volunteers are scrambling to assess and address.
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WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A survey of over 33,000 households released today shows that 40 percent more Americans live with paralysis and over five times the number of Americans live with spinal cord injury than previously estimated. Specifically, the survey shows that 1.275 million have had a spinal cord injury and over 5.6 million Americans live with some form of paralysis. The highest previous estimates were 250,000 and roughly four million, respectively.
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Life after a spinal cord injury is filled with the challenge of accepting your injury, coping with your limitations and adjusting to an entirely new way of seeing the world. Here, six men and women talk about their lives after a spinal cord injury. (Join the discussion here.)
Anxious and depressed about the economy, your finances and, well, your state of anxiety and depression over the economy and your finances? While the $800-billion stimulus package is designed to boost the economy, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, today unveils a new website to boost your mood and help you cope with the psychological effects of unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy and financial losses and generalized financial worry (which is not yet characterized as a psychiatric disorder).
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MONTPELIER — Despite spending hundreds of hours together in a stuffy, second-floor committee room, the 11-member House Appropriations Committee failed to agree unanimously Monday on a budget it passed to operate state government next year.
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The governor is asking the state Legislature to amend the unemployment compensation law to provide additional weeks of benefits to individuals in approved training. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress, states must meet a number of benchmarks including the additional weeks of benefits to qualify for all of the $13.9 million available to assist Vermont.
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Vera Rutherford’s carpal tunnel disability case lingered in New York’s workers’ compensation system. As she waited for a resolution, her life was on hold.
Michael Anderson was found guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of Katherine Ann Olson. A jury found Michael Anderson guilty Tuesday night of premeditated murder in the shooting of a Minneapolis woman he lured to his house in Savage through an ad on Craigslist.
District Judge Mary Theisen set sentencing for 10:30 a.m. today in Scott County District Court. The mandatory sentence for first-degree murder is life in prison. Theisen said she would invite relatives of the 24-year-old victim, Katherine Olson of Minneapolis, to give impact statements before the sentencing.
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