Family members, friends, and guests who have mobility concerns have difficulty visiting places without disabled access lifts. Make it easy to them by increasing the mobility at your home with a wheelchair lift. Home wheelchair lifts and access lifts have become famous for over the past few years, and residential lift installation is more prevalent today.
Home lifts are not considered to be luxury. They re needed by you, your loved ones, or visitors who have mobility issues. At some point, you may have elderly family members, disabled friends, or loved ones who have just got out of the hospital because of injury or surgery. Having a residential lift installed at home is essential to the safe and easy movement of persons with mobility issues.
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Vaccines have been proven to be an effective means of preventing deadly diseases by enhancing the natural immunity of the body. Programs of vaccines across the globe have resulted in improved overall health by minimizing the transmission of diseases, reducing disability, and minimizing the rate of infant mortality. Despite their significance, several myths have been spread about vaccines, creating so much controversy regarding their use. Here are the top five travel vaccination myths debunked.
Vaccination Is Unnecessary If A Disease Does Is Non-Existence
When traveling, it is important to get vaccinated whether or not a disease exists in your country of destination. Infectious agents that circulate in one region could quickly show up in …
Interview with Luis Soto Ramírez, co-chair of AIDS 2008
MEXICO CITY, Aug 1 2008 (IPS) – Mexican virologist Dr. Luis Soto Ramírez, co-chair of the 17th International AIDS Conference, which opens Sunday in the Mexican capital, says that ramping up prevention efforts is the most urgent step to be taken in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Luis Soto Ramírez Credit: Daniela Estrada/IPS
While rushing from one commitment to another in the run-up to the event, also known as AIDS 2008, which will draw 25,000 participants from 188 countries, Soto Ramírez takes time to question the way the Uni…
Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Mar 30 2009 (IPS) – You could hear a pin drop and uncomfortable glances went round the room when the moderator of the debate invited contributions from the floor. A law student finally broke the silence, appealing for education to be a two-way street, so that homosexuals can help us to accept them.
Perhaps unintentionally, the law student, Bárbara García, really broke the ice. The men and women who had spoken up to defend their sexual orientation against prejudice and misunderstanding had shown those present a reality that perhaps many considered alien to their experience, had no knowledge of, or knew of only in a distorted way.
There are people who commit suicide because of their sexual orientation. We are not even going to talk about lesbi…
Ansel Herz
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 15 2010 (IPS) – People are going to take the body to MINUSTAH to show them what they did, Jean-Luc Surfin told IPS by phone as riots erupted against Haiti s U.N. peacekeeping force on Monday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.
A demonstrator holds up an anti-U.N. poster during an October protest outside a MINUSTAH base in Port-au-Prince. Credit: Ansel Herz/IPS
Surfin, a…
Three in four people with mental illness live in developing countries, where treatment options are often limited or nonexistent. Credit: Photostock/IPS
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 2012 (IPS) – About 50 percent of Afghanis over 15 years of age suffer from mental health problems depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder. In northern Uganda, nearly every family suffered during the vicious 20-year rebellion during which thousands of children were kidnapped and turned into child soldiers in the Lord s Resistance Army.
The fighting is over but the mental trauma continues.
Globally, close to 450 million people have mental health disorders, with more than 75 percent…
WASHINGTON, Mar 19 2013 (IPS) – Food safety advocates, environmentalists and health professionals here are engaging in a fervent last-minute campaign to highlight a controversial legislative amendment they say would gut the ability of both the judiciary and the federal government to regulate genetically modified agricultural products.
The U.S. Senate is slated to vote early this week on amendments to a massive, “must pass” bill that would fund the U.S. government’s operations beyond Mar. 27 to the end of this fiscal year. That bill – a piece of stopgap legislation known as a continuing resolution – is so important that leaders in the U.S. Senate had previously suggested that they would not include any potentially controversial amendments.These provisions are giveaways …