disability

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) has removed a Carter-era rule that makes lacking proficiency in English a factor when determining who qualifies to receive federal disability benefits. The new ...

Weightlifter Ned Norton is no stranger to taking on big challenges. He has been training ever since he ...

A Mexican man who was found guilty of raping a wheelchair-bound Seattle woman last year, attacked his victim ...

WASHINGTON–The latest Social Security Trustees report finds that the program faces large shortfalls and is only a few ...

There is an estimated 285 million people across the world that are visually impaired, with a further 246 ...

FRANKFORT, Ky.—Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature on Wednesday, March 13, passed its latest measure to put more restrictions on abortion, ...

NEW YORK—Republican gubernatorial candidate, Marc Molinaro, released his signature initiative Think Differently at New York City Hall on ...

Chinese Internet users slam the local education bureau for not lifting a finger to help the 8th grader.

In Georgia, four little words mean the difference between life and death for a small subset of people.

With the close of the Brooklyn Developmental Center, John Cosentino, a 51-year-old with a history of seizures and ...

Dear Kathy,      I am in the midst of a Social Security overpayment nightmare. Three years ago, I ...

A new Toronto-based restaurant staffed by deaf servers is attracting international attention for its unique concept.

The City Council approved four bills on Thursday that will become law once Mayor Bill de Blasio signs ...

Phantom pain, experienced in missing limbs, tortures amputees and puzzles scientists. Srinath Perur cycles round Cambodia with a ...

Your spine is one of your most treasured body parts. It allows communication from your brain to your ...

Applying mild electrical currents to your head could take away pain, help memory and improve attention – and ...

This past week the city was on high alert again after news broke that Eliceo Cortez, a Brooklyn ...

3-D printing gave a little boy in Buenos Aires a prosthetic hand, a designing challenge for 3-D specialists.

A man in western China walks nine miles a day with his handicapped son on his back to ...