Innovative doctors' offices are renovating with disability rights and accessibility in mind, from wheelchair lifts to quiet ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

People with disabilities face barriers when attempting to gain access to health care settings. Using qualitative analysis of three physician focus groups, we identified physical, communication, ...

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, ...

The Global Disability Summit in Berlin on April 2-3 will serve as a crucial platform for advancing disability rights worldwide. It aims to bridge policy gaps, promote accessibility, and secure ...

Health care staff are poorly trained to treat these patients. And NJ's low Medicaid reimbursement rate makes it hard for them ...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the special rapporteur’s report on care and support for children with disabilities within the family environment and its gendered ...

The doctor was kind and competent. Koppstein and her daughter, who has multiple disabilities, were confident they had found a ...

NJ's health care system is poorly equipped to deal with the distinctive needs of people with disabilities. The consequences can be dire, even deadly.

Our guests this Friday, Christina Mills and Cynde Soto, talk about the factors that contributed to the historical division between senior and disability advocates as well as current efforts to build ...

A recent report finds that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across Pa. continue to encounter ...