The care for elderly people with disabilities or cognitive impairment in rural areas is a social issue worth policymakers' ...

Most medical trainees have never seen measles or its complications, muscle rigidity from tetanus, or an infant struggling to ...

HandicapMD provides a clearer, clinician-led pathway for disability parking permit evaluations, helping patients and ...

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the World Bank (WB) have been closely collaborating on disability-assessment reforms and ...

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing ...

Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred ...

WASHINGTON — Problems with the privately contracted disability exams veterans undergo to determine their benefits were the focus of a House Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee hearing Thursday that ...

U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is developing federal legislation to create the nation’s first ombudsman for people with disabilities, much like the watchdog office he helped establish in New Jersey in 2018.

Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a significant impact on social functioning. Social disability is common in patients, requiring a reliable prediction model for early ...

Sexuality and disability can interact with one another in complex ways. For some, disability has no effect on sexual desire or activity, while for others, it may pose challenges. Sometimes, these ...