"And as I get to know more and more of my self-worth, it sort of helps me to identify myself, thinking I am a woman created by God and I am so precious and I am so loved and I have so much beauty ...

Women with disabilities have very low rates of physical activity, which may be an important contributor to overweight in this population. According to the United States Department of Health and Human ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Maribel Melendez enjoys scuba diving, yoga ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s absolutely essential that we respectfully talk about physical disabilities with children, especially with children who don’t have a disability. If we don’t, disabilities become the elephant in ...

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 ...

An analysis of longitudinal data from the Taiwan Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study found that the relationship between disability and cognitive decline in older adults is bidirectional.