Key disability civil rights law will get a big refresh under Sen. Bob Casey’s...
A key piece of disability civil rights law could get a much-needed refresh. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) will introduce legislation Wednesday to strengthen and extend Section 508 of the Rehabilitation...
View ArticleRobotic aid helped improve balance, gait in children with cerebral palsy
For many kids with cerebral palsy, walking is taxing. They might spend thousands of hours step-stepping in physical therapy to make walking easier. In recent years researchers have developed robots to...
View ArticleSTAT+: ALS patient lived with a brain-computer interface for 7 years. Here’s...
Brain-computer interfaces are still years, and several FDA approvals, away from being available on the market. Even though industry leaders tout their eventual use for the general public, the first...
View ArticleClinical trials exclude disabled Americans because federal agencies failed...
People with disabilities are largely excluded from clinical trials that could benefit them because federal agencies have failed to update rules that govern how trials are conducted or neglected to...
View ArticleAs climate changes, scorching summers bring deadly heat for people with...
Degree by degree, the earth’s temperature ticks up. Heat records fall as reliably as the sun sets. In July, the East Coast broiled. This week, Texas and its neighbors are feeling the burn. It’s been an...
View ArticleAlzheimer’s drug may raise the risk of brain bleed in patients with Down...
A year ago, after much fanfare and controversy, the Food and Drug Administration approved Eisai and Biogen’s lecanemab, an anti-amyloid drug that moderately slowed cognitive decline in patients with...
View ArticleDepression: How brain scans helped predict long-term treatment outcomes
Depression has many faces. Some people can’t sleep, while others struggle to get out of bed. Even though symptoms and severity can vary from person to person, a recent study found that a specific brain...
View ArticleTransparent mice and using ZIP codes to predict heart risk
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Hello! Timmy here. I will be spending ten hours on Sunday carrying my wonderfully...
View ArticleHow Paralympic athletes are helping science learn more about neuropathic pain
Elite athletes train and compete under a watchful eye. Fans and coaches track and measure every step, roll, or throw. But for athletes with a spinal cord injury, a key facet of their experience is...
View ArticleQ&A: Atsena Therapeutics’ gene therapy for inherited blindness shows promise
Seven years after the FDA approved Luxturna, scientists have yet to bring another congenital blindness treatment to the market. A team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
View ArticleSTAT+: Apple will offer millions of AirPod users a hearing aid. Can it...
After years of dabbling in hearing health, Apple earlier this week went all-in, announcing that AirPods Pro, the tech giant’s top wireless earbuds, will soon double as hearing aids for people with...
View ArticleHow Special Olympics kickstarted the push for better disability data
On July 1st, 1995, the world’s spotlight shone upon Yale’s football stadium in New Haven, Connecticut. It was the latest Special Olympics World Games, and the organizers had lined up big-name musicians...
View ArticleSTAT+: Brain-computer interfaces are rapidly evolving. Here are six...
Nearly 20 years after neuroscientist John Donoghue placed electrodes on Matthew Nagle’s motor cortex, allowing the man with no limb movement to control objects using his thoughts, the brain-computer...
View ArticleScientists may have found the reason why people with schizophrenia hear voices
Schizophrenia is a poorly understood illness, but scientists now have greater insight into one of the disorder’s hallmarks, auditory hallucinations, thanks to new research published Thursday. People...
View ArticleSTAT+: Q&A: Why the NIH is spending $30 million to counter ableism in health...
A new NIH program will allocate nearly $30 million to 10 groups over five years to examine the impact of ableism on various health outcomes for people with disabilities and to develop strategies to...
View ArticleMorning Rounds: Hospitals’ IV fluid shortage, Bill Nye, and AI skeptics
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View ArticleBuoyed by clinical success, Onward Medical charts future of neurostimulation
Onward Medical is betting big on neurostimulation as a tool to improve the quality of life for people with paralysis, said CEO Dave Marver. Bullish after recent clinical success, Marver spoke about the...
View ArticleAtul Gawande on the problem that’s even ‘bigger’ than health care
Ten years after the release of “Being Mortal,” Atul Gawande’s seminal book on death and end-of-life care, the celebrated surgeon and author has shifted his focus beyond U.S. health care to global...
View ArticleRetina implant partially improved eyesight in people with severe vision loss
Science Corporation published preliminary data Tuesday from a late stage, multi-center clinical trial of a retina implant that showed promising results. Using this prosthetic, scientists partially...
View ArticleSTAT+: Digital ‘avatars’ emerging as effective treatment for psychosis
Promising results from a new digital therapy could help tackle one of psychiatry’s most intractable problems — hearing voices. Auditory verbal hallucinations are one of the hallmarks of psychosis,...
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