Does Multiple Sclerosis have you lugging around 10 tons of frustration in the intimacy department? Then it might be time to try a new approach.

Disability related dating services are becoming a popular place to find new friends, lovers, business connections, and relationships. Author Linda A. Cronin offers a sampling of these popular online services.

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) offers numerous benefits to individuals living with disabilities. But education is paramount to ensure the safety and efficacy of this treatment strategy.

Do these star-shaped cells promote spinal repair or do they just cause pain?
By Earline Gilley
When you think of the spinal cord, you may automatically think of neurons. It’s only logical to think that the repair and replacement of damaged neurons would be key to curing spinal cord injury (SCI)-related paralysis. Until very recently, however, it […]

Disability rights activists make some news getting arrested for the cause. But is anyone in Washington listening to the call for more affordable adaptive housing?

By Amy Meisner-Threet, MSW
“I’d rather go to jail than die in a nursing home.” That was just one of many chants heard resounding in the nation’s capital as more than 200 […]

Many people in Washington have heightened hopes for disability and health-care policy issues but there are still many factors to overcome before we can get there.

Travel consultant Andrea Kennedy takes off on the “Changes In Air Travel” and what travelers can expect during the upcoming winter and holiday travel season.

Building a new accessible home? Michael Anderson has a story to tell. “My builder had his lawyer there. I knew then, there was a fight brewing,”

By Ed Lash
At age 42, in 1969, I was working the evening shift and said to a coworker, “Would you believe it? I got myself a part-time job three months ago and have been living on five or six hours sleep and feel great!”
He made no comment, but about a week later, I said to […]

Dr. Richard L. Bruno continues his rant on “Bad Research” and unpublished medical research in “Bad Research Part 2″.

By Rosemarie Rossetti, PhD
Louis Tenanbaum, Certified Aging in Place Specialist, recently wrote an article, “Benefits of Universal Design Model Homes.” He wrote, “If a picture speaks a thousand words, a walk through is worth a million pictures. Universal Design model home projects offer that walkthrough experience. They provide shared context so the Universal Design discussion […]

By Tamar Asedo Sherman
Despite guarantees promised us by the Americans With Disabilities Act way back in 1990, many Action readers feel they are being discriminated against because of their disabilities. A couple of letters reprinted here are good representatives:
One came from a woman I’ll call Ann (not her real name), who wrote:
“Discrimination?
“I am an avid […]

“Coach” Scott Chesney tosses his two cents in on how to deal with offers of help both inside and outside of the home.

Space Rabbits and Underwear has author Kathleen M. Muldoon pondering the challenges of writing thank-you-notes for those “Unique” gifts.

If you missed this segment on 60 Minutes last night on computer brain interface technology, the story and video are available here.
From the 60 Minutes website:
(CBS) Once in a while, we run across a science story that is hard to believe until you see it. That’s how we felt about this story when we first […]