Disability Options Network

Advocacy Debate

 

Recent debate has questioned the priorities of the Independence for People with disabilities movement. Although; fighting for the right to live at home instead of being placed in a nursing home is clearly the number one issue, some are making very strong claims that advocacy groups are spending too much energy on it.

 

Restore Your Vision with Stem Cells

 

Stem cells are becoming a house hold term for many of us. Our medical world is being transformed by the seemingly limitless applications in which these cells can be used. New treatments are being discovered for disease and injuries at a very exciting and overwhelming pace and in our quest to restore vision it is no different.

Eye Damage Caused By Tanning Beds

              BBC News, Monday 19 October

 

We have been warned for years about the harmful effects of ultra violet rays, given off naturally by our sun and produced artificially by tanning beds. Its common knowledge that too much of these rays causes burning and in more severe cases involving prolonged or repeated exposure, skin cancer, but it can also be very damaging to the eyes.

PA ADAPT members from Western Pennsylvania visited State Senator Bob Robbins’ office in Greenville, PA on September 30, 2009 to ask him to right the wrongs he's done to the disabled community by supporting budget cuts which will force more disabled people out of their homes and into nursing homes. 

PA ADAPT members from Western Pennsylvania visited State Senator Joe Scarnati's office in Warren, PA on September 1 and 2, 2009 to speak with him regarding the state budget impasse and to demand that any state budget fund people first. Senator Scarnati is the President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, our Lieutenant Governor and a member of the State Budget Caucus.