Center on Disability Studies

Recovering with 4-legged friends requires less pain medication.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1022 words; ...Julia Havey, RN, study presenter and senior...Department of Medical Center Information Systems...physical and developmental disabilities free of charge...Department of Medical Center Information Systems...adult or child with a disability under the guidance of a facilitator. ...

Parent training key to improved treatment of behavior problems in children with autism.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/20/2009; 1388 words; ...the Yale Child Study Center, is principal investigator...problems. In this new study, the RUPP group tested...living skills. The study included 124 children...site parent training study in preschool-age children...Scahill said. "Future studies may also look for ways...Problem, ...

More rural Medicare beneficiaries elect joint replacement surgery than urban recipients.
NewsRx Health; 12/20/2009; 963 words; ...the leading cause of disability in the U.S., and...Review File from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...file to establish the study group. This cohort was...were represented in the study, with a mean age of...2006 report from the Centers for Disease Control and...

Research conducted at M. Weiss and co-authors has provided new information about pediatrics, psychology and psychiatry.
Pediatrics Week; 12/19/2009; 1252 words; According to a study from Vancouver, Canada...This was an exploratory study to examine the use of...implementation of the efficacy studies of risperidone for disruptive...Psychopharmacology (A Naturalistic Study of Predictors and Risks...s & Women's Health Center, Dept. of Psychiatry...ADHD, ...

Studies from University of Copenhagen, Department of Neurology in the area of multiple sclerosis immunology described.
Blood Weekly; 12/17/2009; 896 words; ...sclerosis.' According to a study from Copenhagen, Denmark...disease, but still low disability scores, unresponsive...review is a comprehensive study of the results obtained in several single-center and multicenter studies," wrote C. Rogojan...colleagues published their study in Acta ...