The latest information is

"At first we thought it was not serious, but then she continued having trouble breathing and couldn't move her hands or legs. The next day, the head of the specialist unit told her mom that Emma had compacted her C5 (vertebra) and will be a quadriplegic. If she's lucky she might get some feeling back in parts of her arms, but she won't write again and she won't walk," Weir said.

"September, popularly known as Heritage Month, is also Albinism Month. It is a time when people with albinism enjoy the community education and awareness spotlight," Mazibuko explained.

Kennedy Krieger Institute have announced new study results showing an early marker for later communication and social delays in infants at a higher-risk for autism may be infrequent gazing at other people when unprompted. Published in the September issue of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, the study also found that six-month-old high-risk infants demonstrated the same level of cause and effect learning skills when compared to low-risk infants of the same age.

New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age. The research is published in the September 1, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

In Alzheimer's disease, the problem is beta-amyloid, a protein that accumulates in the brain and causes nerve cells to weaken and die. Drugs designed to eliminate plaques made of beta-amyloid have a fatal problem: they need to enter the brain and remove the plaques without attacking healthy brain cells. New research from the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Paul Greengard, however, suggests that treatments modeled on the blockbuster cancer drug Gleevec could be the solution.

The Wits Hearing Aid Bank (HAB) provide hearing instruments and earmoulds for children aged birth to six years, who are in need of immediate amplification, when amplification is not readily available. These children will typically be waiting for their own hearing instrument(s) through a state hospital, awaiting a cochlear implant evaluation or require a trial with amplification based on a diagnosis of auditory neuropathy/dyssynchrony.

Promotinbg Deaf people's rights from legislation to action