Spring 2012 Current Events Stories

These are the stories sent by students for the "Current Events" assignment due April 19th. I tried to organize them in general clusters of themes that repeated across different articles.

Alzheimer's Disease

Building relationships amid memory loss: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/09/living/dementia-building-relationships/index.html?iref=storysearch

Path is Found fo the Spread of Alzheimer's: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/health/research/alzheimers-spreads-like-a-virus-in-the-brain-studies-find.html

Article on coach Pat Summit: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/18/alzheimers-and-college-basketballs-top-coach/

What's ahead in the Alzheimer's research pipeline?: http://www.everydayhealth.com/alzheimers/alzheimers-research-and-future-treatments.aspx

Music as a treatment for Alzheimer's: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/11/alzheimers-patient-awakens-when-listening-to-music-from-his-past/#ixzz1sR86UlJl

Debates

Questions about Services for those with Developmental Disabilities: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/nyregion/federal-government-criticizes-new-york-on-disabled-care.html?_r=1

Debate about Healthcare and insurance in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/opinion/down-the-insurance-rabbit-hole.html

Ricky Gervais defends comedy show Derek http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17656633

Crime, Lawsuits, and Legal Issues

"NY Police: Partially paralyzed woman beaten, held captive for months: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/28/justice/new-york-imprisoned-woman/index.html?iref=storysearch

Lawsuit over disability in the workplace: woman sues Abercrombie & Fitch: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192674/I-banished-stockroom-says-disabled-shop-girl-suing-Abercrombie--Fitch-discrimination.html

Sports/Athletes

Overcoming barriers for a second chance at sports: http://www.adn.com/2010/09/30/1480235/no-barriers-to-second-chance-at.html

Amputee at Fenway: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120416&content_id=28829438&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

Paralympic Cyclist: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/nyregion/the-cyclist-damian-lopez-alfonso-heads-for-paralympics.html?_r=2&ref=paralympicgames

New Technology; New Treatments; New Research

Ipads and disability: http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/ipads-disabilities/ and more here: http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/162138/2/On-Assignment-Apps-helping-children-with-disabilities


Easing the Seizures, and Stigma, of Epilepsy: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-epilepsy-ess.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-epilepsy-ess.html

Is there a link between the rise in obesity and the rise in autism? http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2012/04/09/obesity-moms-autism/15350/

"Attention Problems May Be Sleep-Related"http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/attention-problems-may-be-sleep-related/?ref=health#