The long-term aftershocks of care Feb 9, 2010
A few mobile health teams have arrived to provide rehabilitation services and plans are underway to begin producing prostheses for amputees. While these are good starts, the massive need of thousands of newly disabled Haitians is simply overwhelming. (Boston Globe)
Penn State doctors weigh in on Haiti Feb 8, 2010
As the breadwinner for her family, she told them amputees in Haiti usually end up destitute in the streets ... "They were pretty resilient kids, but it was hard to walk into a camp of 8-year-old amputees who didn't have their parents with them," he said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Funding for Athletes with Disabilit... Feb 7, 2010
Based in San Diego, the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) grew from the grass-roots financial support for endurance race Jim MacLaren, a below-the-knee amputee who was struck by a car during the bike portion of a triathlon and paralyzed from the neck down. MacLaren s friends organized the San Diego Triathlon Challenge to raise funds for his recovery. (Suite101.com)
Repulsed by her Feb 7, 2010
Stern advice for a grandmother of an amputee, plus foreign language rules. By February 7, 2010. (Boston Globe)
Patients Kept from Medical Marijuana as They Push for Reform Feb 6, 2010
A challenging task for double amputee Bilyeu, but the sort of opportunity a patient named Andrea relishes. "Let me show you my garden," she says, gleefully pulling open a closet door in her spare bedroom. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
Penn State doctors return, more go to Haiti Feb 6, 2010
Because of the poverty in Haiti, an amputee would not be able to receive the care and physical therapy needed. Aside from surgeries, the team also worked to set a medical record system in place to make it easier for future teams to continue providing care, she said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
New amputees worry about life ahead Feb 5, 2010
New amputees worry about life ahead - USATODAY.com ... New amputees worry about life ahead ... By Ken Dilanian and Marisol Bello, USA TODAY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Ivens Louius, a Haitian physical therapist in the , hopes the wave of amputees needing rehabilitation after the earthquake that rocked his native country means he can go home again. (USA Today -- News)
Bill Clinton: Business Can Help Haiti Feb 5, 2010
Call Centers: Haiti could also be an ideal location for offshore call centers, which could serve both English- and French-speaking markets and employ the many Haitians who have recently become amputees or suffered other physical disabilities. Some businesses and investors are exploring the creation of a pooled investment fund. (BusinessWeek)
Oprah Winfrey takes on a killer: type 2 diabetes Feb 4, 2010
Oz says Winfrey will take viewers into a hospital to meet a woman with diabetes on dialysis, who is a double amputee. "It's a very emotional story as she tells America what diabetes did to her and wishes she'd been more aggressive about treating it," Oz says. (USA Today)
Using Technology to Help Haiti's Growing Amputee Population Feb 3, 2010
Adam Cote, senior vice president of Global Relief Technologies, uses a PDA to collect crucial information from amputees. Adam Cote, senior vice president of Global Relief Technologies, uses a PDA to collect crucial information from amputees ... 0-magnitide earthquake devastated Haiti last month, amputees living in the Caribbean nation faced a grim and uncertain future with many people looking at them as no more than an economic burden. (Fox News)
Pa. hospitals to accept Haitian quake victim Feb 2, 2010
Carolyn Scanlan of the Hospital hsystem Association of Pennsylvania said the wounded could include amputees and paraplegics. However, it was not clear when exactly wounded Haitian earthquake victims will show up. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
The Hidden Cost of War in Afghanist... Feb 2, 2010
Depending on how many brain injured veterans file for disability, such expenses could easily run into hundreds of billions of dollars this amount does not include caring for needs of the other war-wounded, such as amputees. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) vs. Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD). (Suite101.com)
Life and limb Jan 31, 2010
BBC News - Uncertain future for Haiti's amputees ... Uncertain future for Haiti's amputees ... There are fears that amputees will not receive proper aftercare. (BBC News -- Americas)
Task of rebuilding Haiti expected to be ambitious, arduous Jan 31, 2010
The most vulnerable people -- amputees, orphans and pregnant women -- will be resettled first, said Charles Clemont, head of the temporary settlements for the reconstruction commission. When the resettlements will take place remains uncertain. (CNN -- World)
Haiti's biggest loss from quake: Thousands of amputees Jan 30, 2010
She is one of thousands of people who were made amputees when jagged, cascading concrete crushed their bones ... Some patients are multiple amputees, though Doubt didn't say how many ... "But that number of new amputees can go up as wounds turn gangrenous or as repairs that were made fail at a later date and it is necessary to amputate," Doubt said. (The Palm Beach Post)
Harackiewicz gets win No. 200 Jan 29, 2010
"Our goal is to win a state championship. But along the way you're trying to really develop these kids into real strong people that represent the town well." Harackiewicz also coaches his son at the youth level and is the assistant coach for the U.S. National Amputee Ice Hockey team. The Indians entered Saturday night's game ranked fifth in Division III, but the win against a staunch Division II opponent in Enfield should bump the Indians up. (Farmington Valley Post, CT)
Businesses must help Haiti -Clinton Jan 29, 2010
Doctors in Haiti say the quake had created a litany of health problems, including perhaps tens of thousands of new amputees. With many hospitals and clinics destroyed, there was little chance they would get the therapy they need, doctors said. (AlertNet)
Nursing Haiti back to health Jan 29, 2010
More than 75 people a day have lost limbs following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, triggering a call to action for prosthetics manufacturers and suppliers and amputee advocates in the U.S., who want to avert further casualties ... More than 75 people a day have lost limbs following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, triggering a call to action for prosthetics manufacturers and suppliers and amputee advocates in the U.S., who want to avert further casualties. (MSNBC -- International)
Haiti challenge Jan 29, 2010
Doctors fear many amputees will languish or even die without proper rehabilitation. As the emergency phase of the disaster winds down, there is a pressing need for mobile and community-based clinics that can provide such services as maternity care, post-operative care, and treatment for chronic health problems including diabetes, heart disease, HIV, and tuberculosis, the WHO says. (BBC News -- Americas)
Haiti awash in doctors, but few nurses Jan 29, 2010
Thousands of amputees will need significant, specialized help from physical therapists, but few are available. Nurses are in short supply. (CNN -- International)
Haiti pleads for better aid effort, survivor found Jan 28, 2010
Quake created thousands of new amputees in Haiti (Adds teenage girl rescued, more Preval, finance minister) ... Doctors in Haiti say the quake had created a litany of serious health problems, including perhaps tens of thousands of new amputees. (AlertNet)
Life gets tougher for amputees Jan 28, 2010
Tough challenge gets tougher for Haitian amputees - CNN.com ... Tough challenge gets tougher for Haitian amputees ... Haiti will not be able to meet the current needs of amputees, said Eric Doubt, chief of Healing Hands for Haiti International. (CNN -- World)
Air Force Team Cares for Victims Jan 28, 2010
"We're transporting a lot of crush injuries, amputees, burns, and closed-head trauma," Lynch said. "About half of our critical patients to date have been pediatric patients with all of those types of injuries.". (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)
Haiti not ready for amputees Jan 28, 2010
Total amputees could be in the tens of thousands ... The total number of amputees due to the earthquake could stretch into the tens of thousands, said Dr Ronald Waldman of the U.S. Agency for International Development ... Already in Port-au-Prince, one-legged people on crutches are a frequent sight, part of what a Haitian doctor said was a generation of amputees, many of them young, who will need expensive care that was unavailable to most even before the quake hit the Western Hemisphere's... (AlertNet)
Fighting spirit aids ex-boxer in Afghan battle (Yesterday) Jan 25, 2010
As Sgt. Lubash recuperated at Walter Reed, where amputees and thousand-yard stares are too abundant, demonstrators sometimes gathered outside the fence to protest the wars. "I understand why people question Iraq because it had nothing to do with 9/11, but Afghanistan is where it all started. We will prevail," Sgt. Lubash said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Haiti's amputees Jan 24, 2010
Prosthetic organisations and charities worldwide have warned of the huge task facing Haiti as it struggles to rehabilitate hundreds of thousands of amputees resulting from the island's earthquake ... And in a country where an estimated 800,000 people were already living with disability before the disaster struck, meeting all the needs of the amputees may be impossible ... "Amputation is a life-long rehabilitation - in the UK we still treat amputees from the Second World War because they need... (BBC News -- Health)
NH company to help Haiti relief effort Jan 23, 2010
Four members of Global Relief Technologies of Portsmouth are scheduled to leave for Haiti on Monday to help take a census of amputees who need medical treatment and rehabilitation as they recover from last week's earthquake. The company will assist the medical relief group Helping Hands for Haiti and the New England Brace Company, which specializes in the care of amputees and other injuries requiring braces and prosthetic devices. (Concord Monitor)
Donate used braces and crutches for Haiti Jan 23, 2010
Devastation from the earthquake in Haiti, along with delayed medical care for many injured, has produced high numbers of amputees. Some of the items will be offloaded Jan. 25 at 7 a.m. and on a plane to Haiti that afternoon, according to Jay Millson, executive vice president of the Duval County Medical Society. (Jacksonville Business Journal, FL)
As many as 200,000 may need amputations Jan 23, 2010
Jean-Paul Bonnet, an American family doctor, said the US Government urgently needed to intervene to help Haiti's new generation of amputees ... Ironically, if we can find any good out of the war in Iraq perhaps it is the advances in helping amputees Hopefully those nine years of education will have trained us enough to help this poor country. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Time at ease for war's wounded Jan 22, 2010
The VA system typically sees amputees one to three years after they are treated at Walter Reed. New vascular surgical techniques, computerized limbs that react to impulses in the body and plastic and carbon artificial limbs that bend like diving boards are some of the breakthroughs allowing disabled veterans to live full lives, said Daniel Morgan, head of prosthetics at Stratton VA.. (Albany Times Union)
Hairdresser Brings Kindness, Care To Quake Victims Jan 22, 2010
More than 150 Haitians fill the hospital's trauma unit, many of them amputees or with spinal injuries, casts or bandages. Doctors work extra hours to tend the wounded. (CBS News -- World)
Quake hospital Jan 21, 2010
There are amputees here, people with their heads swathed in bandages and, right in front of me, a Cuban doctor is treating a young girl, Fleury Solange, who was crushed as she tried to run from a building when the earthquake happened ... Three hundred amputees. (BBC News -- Americas)
One born every minute Jan 21, 2010
Why doesn't God cure amputees. Do saints not care to intervene in these cases. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Music Eases Physical and Emotional ... Jan 21, 2010
Patients with spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, amputees and patients with neurological problems all benefit from music exercises. As well, it gives them a great outlet to be able to express their feelings non-verbally, she said. (Suite101.com)
UM doctor returns from Haiti Jan 20, 2010
"There are tens of thousands amputees. There is not one prosthetic placed to give artificial limbs. There's no wheelchairs or canes or crutches.". Green is also credited for coordinating all of the countries and the U.S. military's medical staff, as well as setting up urgent care stations in Haiti. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
For many quakevictims, it's amputate or die Jan 20, 2010
In a country where survival is so tough, for an amputee, its nearly impossible ... There are no prosthetics for a country that may soon be a country of orphans and amputees. (MSNBC -- Health)
For thousands in Haiti, healing pivots on an amputation Jan 19, 2010
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HAITI QUAKE: World Vision Situation Update Jan 17, 2010
Amputation tools and supplies to sterilize wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. (AlertNet)
WASHINGTON WHISPERS Jan 10, 2010
Air Force Staff Sgt. David Flowers may have lost a leg last May to an Afghan land mine, but the decorated 29-year-old gained a whole new purpose in life: helping other war amputees recover with Nintendo Wii Fit, as he did. Flowers and his wife, Elizabeth, have started , an online charity to raise money to buy the games. (The Drudge Report)
Breaking the ice Jan 10, 2010
Mills did not think she could take part at first, having done an internet search on amputee ice skaters and not finding any information ... "As any amputee will know, some days the leg is great but some days the leg swells up and you can't get your socket on," she explains. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Need A New Hand? One Day, You May Be Able to Regrow One Jan 10, 2010
Prosthetics can help amputees regain some function, and successful hand transplants have recently been achieved ... In the meantime, he said, bioengineers are creating better and more sensitive prosthetics for today's amputees -- devices that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. (MEDLINEplus)
KFOX Special Investigations Jan 10, 2010
"Wounded Warriors" Some are amputees. Others suffer from severe brain injuries, which have rendered them immobile. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
U.S. Sued Over Dropping of Benefits for Disabled Jan 10, 2010
Two years ago, the government told the amputee he would have to make do with less. Kaplan, who is from Ukraine, lost his $603 in Supplemental Security Income after he missed a seven-year deadline to become a U.S. citizen. (Yahoo News -- Disabilities and the Disabled)
