As federal officials look to clarify recent rules designed to bar disability discrimination in health care, a long-simmering ...

For many people with disabilities, getting married can come with a steep cost: the loss of federal benefits that provide ...

Hochul has previously defended the transition, calling it a much-needed reform. A spokesperson for the governor said this ...

Read full article: Saharan dust returns to Central Florida. Here’s how it’s good -- and bad The Madden Julian Oscillation, by it's full name, is one of our "intra-seasonal" mechanisms we track to ...

Last year, Republican attorneys general in 17 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), asking courts to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. Section 504 is part of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts. The second-grade student stumbled over ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. leaders are mourning the loss of a "fierce champion" for disability rights, Mathew McCollough.

A feature film is in the works about a prominent activist known as the “mother of the disability rights movement.” Apple Original Films said it is making a movie about Judy Heumann who was ...

A disability watchdog group has closed its investigation into child abuse in the autistic support program at a Central Bucks elementary school. The group, Disability Rights PA, published an April 2025 ...

During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the death on social media Sunday evening, saying McCollough served with dedication and compassion.