Although wheelchair users, visually impaired people and others with mobility and physical disabilities need consistent exercise, it's often hard for them to work out. In many cases, they can't get ...

People don't get to choose the illnesses that render them too disabled to work, but insurance companies have the power to approve or deny claims based on where in the body their condition exists. It's ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

1. Women with disabilities have limited opportunities to establish romantic relationships. Compared to women without disabilities, women with disabilities were less satisfied with how often they date ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fatigue partially mediated the relationship of pain interference with physical disability among children newly ...

1 Acting Consultant Community Physician, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2 Professor in Community Medicine, University of Ruhuna and Sri Jayawardanapura, Colombo, Sri Lanka 3 ...

What do you really need to know about disability? If you’re not disabled yourself, and don’t have a child, spouse, brother or sister, or parent with disabilities, how knowledgeable and up to date on ...

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

In reading Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024 State of the State address, I was pleased to see that the governor noted that in striving to expand access to primary care for adults with complex needs, the state ...

In general, society and the media have two extremely polarizing views on people with disabilities. They are viewed as either remarkable and heroic or victims and pitiful. Since disability falls on a ...

Diana H. Rintala, Ph.D. Mary Ellen Young, Ph.D. Catherine C. Foley, Ph.D. I know the feeling of being anxious to form relationships very well, but no one approaches you for a date; raised to expect ...