A new article examines how social isolation, loneliness and frailty affect one another and the bidirectional relationship they exert as an individual gets older. hey found that physical frailty can be ...

Marking Disability Rights Awareness Month, Jessica van der Merwe delves into the inspiration behind her autobiography ‘Broken ...

A 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is learning how to communicate with the help of a computer program and device that reads his brain signals. Posted November 2, 2024 5:41pm CDT Share ...

Getting injured after a fall may be an early warning sign of dementia in older adults. That’s according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open last month. "This study quantifies a ...

Just being on the island, meeting so many incredible people, the sense of community ... after being born 11 weeks premature with Cerebral Palsy, an incurable neurological condition that affects ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released the latest stats, revealing that over 3.5 million people across Great Britain are now on Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Notably ...

“Is this treatment right for my child?” This is a question parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) grapple with daily. It can be especially scary when the treatment you’re considering is surgery.

Adults 65 and older and people with weakened immune systems should get two doses of the newly updated COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends. People in ...

The CDC said adults ages 65 and older should get a second dose of this year’s COVID vaccine six months after their first dose. Immunocompromised people older than six months should also get a second ...

SINGAPORE – Wise men say only fools rush in, Elvis Presley once crooned. However, after dating for 12 years, Workers’ Party (WP) chairwoman Sylvia Lim and former national footballer Quah Kim ...

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials on Wednesday recommended that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses. The recommendation was made ...