Healing Hands for Haiti needs help (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Poverty is so crushing in Haiti that a simple cut or broken bone can become so infected in slums plagued with filth and raw sewage that the only remedy is amputation.

Lady who waited a year for her new wheelchair will get one thanks to column (Toronto Sun)

It never ceases to amaze me how sometimes it is only bad publicity that finally makes people do the right thing.

Giving Season: United Way of Chittenden County Volunteer Center -- Wish Lists (The Burlington Free Press)

Nonprofits in need of assistance at the holidays

Wheelchair user advocates by example (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

TACOMA -- Imagine sitting in a wheelchair, heaving open a steel door with one hand and moving your seated body across the threshold before the door shuts.

Health Briefs: Martin County-Nov. 24 (TCPalm.com)

November is Diabetic Eye Disease Month.Free diabetic eye disease screenings are offered throughout the month of November at East Florida Eye Institute, 509 S.E. Riverside Drive, Suite 302 Stuart. Call (772) 287-9000 for reservations.