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Stay covered against dance-related injuries with Dance Accident Insurance
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 4 (ANI/BusinessWire India): For those who love dancing, suffering from a dance-related injury during practice or performance is a real possibility.
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Centre asks banks to refund tax collected on disability pension
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 3 (ANI): The Central Government on Tuesday has asked banks to refund the tax collected on the disability pension.
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Older adults face new disabilities after hospital treatments for serious i
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 25 (ANI): Adults in their older ages face disabilities after staying at a hospital for serious illnesses, suggests a new study.
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Researchers discover a new mechanism involved in expression of down syndro
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have discovered a new mechanism involved in the expression of down syndrome, one of the main causes of intellectual disability and congenital heart defects in children.
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Study links optimism to favorable health outcomes in stroke survivors
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 16 (ANI): A study has demonstrated that stroke survivors who have an optimistic attitude in life had significantly reduced inflammation levels, stroke severity, and physical disability.
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Study reveals optimism reduces stroke severity, inflammation
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 12 (ANI): Stroke survivors with high levels of optimism had lower inflammation levels, reduced stroke severity and less physical disability after three months as compared to those who are less optimistic, says a recent study.
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TN Govt increasing access to early intervention therapy for children with
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Feb 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): The school enrollment rate of children with special needs improved from 69 per cent to 85 per cent when they received early intervention therapy, finds a study by Amar Seva Sangam, Ayikudi (ASSA), a premier non-profit organization in the f
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18-yr-old Chandigarh girl with no arms uses her toes to paint
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Jan 30 (ANI): An 18-year-old girl from Chandigarh with no hands churns out works of art using her toes, to prove that disability need not be deterrent to achieve dreams.
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Prenatal exposure to flame retardants may be associated with reading probl
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 12 (ANI): A recent study by researchers of Columbia University suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants can increase the risk of developing reading problems.
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Australia's best cricketers with disability to compete in national champio
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], Jan 9 (ANI): The National Cricket Inclusion Championships (NCIC) will take place for a fourth consecutive year in Geelong with more than 250 of Australia's most talented cricketers with a disability competing at the tournament from January 13 - 17.
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The National CSR Award-winning program of Spark Minda enabled 1000 persons
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India] Dec 28 (ANI/NewsVoir): Spark Minda with their special program 'Saksham - Empowerment of Persons with Disability Camp' under the CSR arm of the Group - Spark Minda Foundation, has organized a seven-day 'Empowerment of Persons with Disability Camp' at Chimbali Phata,
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Mark Ruffalo, Danny DeVito urge Hollywood to promote actors with disabilit
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 21 (ANI): Mark Ruffalo and Danny DeVito are among the actors to urge Hollywood to cast more disabled actors and embrace disability as a key facet of diversity in order to erase the stigma that surrounds disability.
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