A new study examined disabilities and caregiving before and after older adults entered long-term care communities. The researchers found that people who went into nursing homes and assisted living ...

Clinical trials for treatments to prevent recurring strokes typically only include participants who have little to no disability from a prior stroke. A new Yale study finds that leaving patients with ...

Patients with traumatic brain injury were more likely to collect work disability benefits, with odds increasing with the severity of the injury, than patients who did not have these injuries, ...

The VA now requires disability ratings to reflect a veteran’s condition as it appears while medicated, rather than estimating how severe it would be without treatment.

Brain lesions — areas of brain tissue that show damage from injury or disease — are the biomarker most widely used to determine multiple sclerosis disease progression. But an innovative new study led ...

Medically reviewed by Valerie Cacho, MD Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) usually does not qualify as a disability on its own.However, severe OSA may be considered a disability if it causes health ...

Louisiana has joined eight other states in a fight to overturn a federal requirement that encourages care for disabled residents to happen in their homes and communities, notes activist and mom Katie ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with disabilities had higher severe maternal morbidity rates per 10,000 deliveries vs. women without.