Independent Living Research Utilization

The DBTAC Southwest ADA Center provides training to entities with compliance obligations under the law, as well as to those people with disabilities and advocates who want to learn more about their rights.

What is a Webcast?

A webcast is similar to a teleconference, but instead of tuning in by phone, you listen through the Internet for free. All webcasts include real-time captioning, which ensures access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Webcasts are an excellent way to receive training and information from your desk or home computer. Archived webcasts, allow you to listen at your convenience.

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A podcast is an audio broadcast on the Internet. The reason it's called a podcast is because people can download the audio file to listen on their iPods. However, you don't need an iPod to listen to a podcast. You can use a computer or any portable musci player as long as it is able to play digital audio files like mp3s. If you can play music on your computer, your computer can play a podcast.

Resistance could lead to breakouts of the infection in communities where it has been brought under control, a Canadian study in the Lancet reports.

Ivermectin, used since the late 1980s, is the only drug available for the mass treatment of river blindness.

Experts warned the findings highlighted the urgent need for new treatments.

River blindness (onchocerciasis) is caused by a nematode worm which is transmitted by a black fly.