The latest expansion brings the Compassionate Allowances list to 314 conditions.

The U.S. Department of Labor is officially putting an end to a 2013 regulation that put pressure on federal contractors to beef up disability employment. Under the rule finalized by the Obama ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued a final rule substantially revising the regulations implementing Section 503 of the ...

A real gap is built into the Department of Veterans Affairs' disability rating system. A veteran can be rated at 70% or 80%, ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act always considers bipolar disorder a disability. However, the Social Security Administration sometimes does not. Bipolar disorder can cause significant shifts in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. A little over a quarter of all Americans have some kind of ...

Disabled people are disproportionately incarcerated and segregated from society through a variety of institutions. Still, the links between disability and incarceration are underexplored, limiting ...

Australians with intellectual disability continue to experience unconscious bias in the medical system and much poorer health outcomes than people without disability. On average, they die 27 years ...

They lamented the severe economic hardship confronting the disability community, revealing that membe are aunable to pursue ...

The effectiveness and safety of statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events and the extension of disability-free survival among older adults remain uncertain. We conducted a ...