HandicapMD provides a clearer, clinician-led pathway for disability parking permit evaluations, helping patients and ...

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the World Bank (WB) have been closely collaborating on disability-assessment reforms and ...

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum ...

Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and charity models of disability have long reinforced a status quo trapped in hundred ...

U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is developing federal legislation to create the nation’s first ombudsman for people with disabilities, much like the watchdog office he helped establish in New Jersey in 2018.

Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a significant impact on social functioning. Social disability is common in patients, requiring a reliable prediction model for early ...

Leveraging EHR tools and social work to improve ACP documentation in older adults. Developed disability collection education, intake form, scripting, and EHR template/documentation tipsheet Developed ...

Sexuality and disability can interact with one another in complex ways. For some, disability has no effect on sexual desire or activity, while for others, it may pose challenges. Sometimes, these ...

The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems are essentially cheating their way through medical tests, achieving impressive scores not through genuine medical knowledge but by exploiting ...

Objectives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disability have unequal access to health and disability support services. The impacts of colonialism and the deficit-based, Western ...