Former model Sheri Melander-Smith on how “Disabilities don’t have to end your career”

MS brings a daughter closer to her mother as they search for ways to stay healthy, despite the disease.

By Amy Meisner-Threet, MSW, with Florence Meisner, RN

Like many mothers and daughters, as each of us became more independent from each other over the years, it became harder for my mother and I to communicate with […]

Ed Lash on training the body to fight Multiple Sclerosis

By Dr. Richard L. Bruno
When polio survivors first came to the Post-Polio Institute at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey, 25 years ago, we discovered that the disease had a profound effect on learning and earning. The six subjects in our first post-polio research study made clear that polio survivors were […]

By Rosemarie Rossetti, PhD
I am in the early stages of designing the landscape for my new home, the Universal Design Living Laboratory. This home and garden will be open for tours to the public when it is completed, estimated to be spring 2009. My husband and I purchased a 1.5-acre treeless lot and will […]

By Tamar Asedo Sherman
It’s been a rough month. After more than two decades of working as an art director for a major daily newspaper, my husband Jack was nudged into early retirement some four years ahead of plans in keeping with changing times. People are not reading newspapers any more, or at least there […]

Scott Chesney speaks from the heart on one of life’s challenges.

By Kathleen M. Muldoon

Yvette Silver www.yvettesilver.com
When I was in junior high and high school, not quite as far back as the Dark Ages, my schoolmates were divided into two groups—cool and uncool. I don’t know when this division started or who started it, but I know from my teaching experience that students today still […]

United Spinal New York Jets quad rugby team. A force to be reckoned with!

Bidding on wheelchairs may ultimately hurt those that need them most.