Deaf Health – Healthy eating help for Deaf

An innovative project in Tyneside is helping deaf people eat more healthily and get more exercise. Deaflink a Newcastle Healthy City-based project working with deaf and deaf blind people has developed a range of resources to boost healthy eating and exercise.

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Deaf Health - Technology For Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients

Deaf and hard of hearing patients have a new option for care at Baton Rouge General. The General is now using NexTalk, which allows patients to link in real-time to an online sign-language interpreter, allowing communication 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The General is the first hospital in the region with this technology and it is available at both its Mid City and Bluebonnet hospitals, including both Emergency Departments

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Deaf Health – HIV Testing Explained in ASL

HIV is spread through the exchange of bodily fluids. This most commonly happens during sexual intercourse, including oral and anal sex. HIV can also be transmitted through sharing needles, or from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby. There is no cure for HIV and no vaccine to stop you from becoming infected. However, since the 1990s, treatments have been developed that enable most people with HIV to stay well and live relatively normal lives…Source

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Deaf Health – Swine Flu

Swine influenza virus is common throughout pig populations worldwide. Transmission of the virus from pigs to humans is not common and does not always lead to human influenza, often resulting only in the production of antibodies  in the blood. If transmission does cause human influenza, it is called zoonotic  swine flu. People with regular exposure to pigs are at increased risk of swine flu infection. The meat of an infected animal poses no risk of infection when properly cooked…Source

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Deaf Health – Deaf-Friendly Clinic

The lives of the Deaf people are getting better each day and it should be! Now there is a deaf friendly clinic where we can go to seek health advice without the stress of poor communication with our doctor or the embarrassments of hiring the interpreter in. Come on UK and the rest of the world…do we all have something like this in our country?

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Deaf Health – Coping with Dementia

In some stage in our life we might be faced with our love ones suffering from dementia – an illness which make you lose your memory and then eventually ….sadly they won’t be able to recognise you.

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