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Terminally Ill deserves a better quality of Life

... with perceived disability," said Gupta, who faced discrimination 18 years back and failed to get a good job despite...d with cancer. "Even now people with cancer face discrimination and get no support from their place of work," said Gupta. Apart from providing medical attention at...

Terminally Ill Patients Could Be Offered A Better Life

... with perceived disability," said Gupta, who faced discrimination 18 years back and failed to get a good job despite her qualifications when she was diagnosed with cancer. Apart from providing medical attention at home, groups like CanSupport lend a sympathetic ear to family members and caregivers looking after t...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

...ossible to compensate for amusia by training pitch discrimination abilities. Amusic adults show a normal range of intelligence and have no other brain deficits. They get little payoff from pitch training and typically find it annoying. Their performance on tests of pitch may even decrease with continued testing. T...

Attitude Towards AIDS Patients – Time For A Change

...ess must do - but also have to face the torment of discrimination and stigma // . Our attitude to the disease rests largely on ignorance regarding the disease inspite of the massive awareness campaigns that has been conducted so far. Infact, a hardened cultural attitude to the disease has been cultivated, which, u...

Habit Memory May Enhance Learning In People

... and GP, participated in a series of simple object discrimination tasks. Both individuals have severe memory impairment, due to temporal lobe damage caused by herpes simplex encephalitis. At the beginning of each session, the volunteers had no recollection of having performed the task previously, and even after s...

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