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Critical Study Highlights Poor Physician Interactions with People with IDD Revealing Dire Need to Better Train MDs on IDD Healthcare Share Article A recent survey showed how physicians are not prepared to offer quality care to people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and it also revealed how nurses’ efforts are fruitless. According to Dr. Craig Escudé, President of IntellectAbility, there exists an urgent need to train current physicians and medical students. Efforts being mad...

 E-Mail PHILADELPHIA - Intellectual disability puts individuals at higher risk of dying earlier in life than the general population, for a variety of medical and institutional reasons. A new study from Jefferson Health examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected this group, which makes up 1-3% of the US population. The study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Catalyst, found that intellectual disability was second only to older age as a risk factor for dying f...

The Trump administration has finalized a sweeping regulation that will effectively end asylum protection in the United States. The regulation, which was proposed in June, is set to go into effect on January 11—only nine days before President Trump leaves office. If implemented, it will mean that very few people fleeing persecution will be able to obtain refuge in the United States. The Trump Administration’s War on Asylum Asylum protection (which stems from the United Nations Refugee Conven...

There was speculation that lightning may have split that plane in two, but as brian todd reports, lightning hitting a plane isnt as dangerous as it sounds. >> reporter: devastating impact, but when this 737 crashed on san andres island on colombia, almost all of the passengers survived. we dissected the accident with veteran airline pilot mark weiss. why werent more people killed? >> i think were what youre going to see, the escape slide was deployed, and you also see over here a pretty clean br...

Reliable models. that will bring the center of a very large and very strong storm right here across parts of south florida, devastating impact. one of those places, the first place to see any kind of landfall could be key largo. thats where we find our adam housley. adam, what do you see? >> we are told that governor scott has shut down all the schools in the state of florida in the last hour in that will continue through monday because this storm is so massive. the evacuations began a couple of...