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...Tending to strike people aged between 50 and 70, it kills half of them within 14 months of diagnosis by progressively paralyzing the body until the sufferer can't speak, swallow or breathe, while usually leaving the mind untouched. It's MND that confines physicist Stephen Hawking to a wheelchair and last month claimed the life of Australian artist Pro Hart. Experts' understanding of the disease remains sketchy, and riluzole falls way short of being a cure: at best, it might prolong a patient's life for a year...
...blind, overweight patient in the wheelchair has terrible pain in her back and burning pain in her legs. She also has advanced arthritis in her knees and end-stage circulatory disease, which have left her with two useless legs that are red, swollen and infected. Now her shoulder has started to hurt. She can't raise her arm to comb her hair. Five or six other things are wrong with her--she tells me about each. Some we can help; most we can't. I tell her as much...
...Runaway Wheelchair...
...officer was dispatched to Kresge on Wednesday, March 29 to a report that a wheelchair had rolled down from the Brigham and Women’s hospital. The officer arrived and reports that a van from the hospital will be by to pick up the wheelchair...
...Greater Boston Legal Services Senior Attorney Taramattie Doucette said. The settlement, filed in 2002 by GBLS, represented 10 plaintiffs with various disabilities. The plaintiffs cited personal experiences as proof that there was an imminent need for improvement in public transportation. Plaintiff Joan Golden of Medford, Mass., who uses a wheelchair, said she sustained a serious injury when a lift she was on came out from under her. Despite the experience, “I never realized how serious and deplorable the situation was until I became a plaintiff and I learned more,” she said. Under the agreement...