CNNMoney.com reports on Disaboom. Opening new worlds: The disability boom

(From a CNNMoney.com article published 9/15/2008)(Fortune Small Business) -- Despite his wheelchair, and often because of it, Dr. Glen House has always enjoyed doing what he isn't supposed to. Take the time he persuaded his neighbor in Colorado Springs, J.W. Roth, to join him...

Iran Basketball Team Withdraws From Paralympics Amid Suspicion

Iran's Paralympic wheelchair basketball team forfeited their quarter-final match versus the United States, avoiding a possible match-up against Israel.Officials for Iran's Paralympic team deny that they withdrew from the competition because of Iran's strained relations with...

EU extends rights of disabled air travellers

Many of the budget airlines in Europe have in the past made life very difficult for passengers with disability and one airline in particular has treated them with contempt so it is good to see that the EU has introduced new regulations relating to the treatment of elderly and...

Blind war vet, 80, 'waited 20 hours' at hospital

Hope he won't be "the next Esmin Green". " AN 80-year-old war veteran was forced to wait nearly 20 hours overnight for treatment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital emergency department, his wife claimed today. Edward Webster from Bedford was brought to SCGH emergency...

Wheelchair man 'over the limit'

Drivers are not the only ones who go over the limit on drink driving. Police in the northern Australian city of Cairns have charged a man with drink driving in a motorised wheelchair. Patrol officers found the man stopped and fast asleep in his wheelchair in the exit lane of...

Australian charged with driving wheelchair while drunk

An Australian man was charged with drunk-"driving" while traversing a highway in northern Queensland... on a wheelchair. " Motorists were forced to drive around the 64-year-old man after he fell asleep in an exit lane on the Captain Cook Highway in northern Queensland...