The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a ruling Monday that will make hearing aids available over the counter without a prescription or an appointment. It’s a game-changer for many disabled ...

JAIPREET VIRDI is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability at the University of Delaware, and the author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. For the past two years, analysts ...

As thousands of wounded warriors and military veterans battle disabilities and injuries every day, the most common ailment often gets overlooked. Tinnitus, or ringing in the ear, is the leading ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published Tuesday an updated Americans with Disabilities Act guidance containing information about how the law applies to job applicants and employees ...

In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said "there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place." Meade, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a ...

For women, the effects of unrecognized disability often surface through interrupted education, challenges navigating ...

Identifying as LGBTQ is one thing, but what if you also have a disability? People living with disabilities might have an easier time finding acceptance or support in society at large than our amazing ...

Criteria the VA developed in 1945 do not align with modern medicine, employment and the impact of disabilities on a veteran’s ...

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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet famously asks, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” She wonders how the name someone has can define them, ...