Alberta schools strained as special education needs grow amid overcrowded classrooms

The number of children and students identified with a severe disability rose 18 per cent since 2019 to 46,234 in the 2024-25 ...

The autism epidemic is a myth

Most new cases reflect mild or no significant impairment. Moderate and severe cases have declined. Adam Omary is a ...
Medical Xpress

A new diet option for mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease

"What should I eat?" is perhaps the most common question patients with inflammatory bowel disease ask their doctors. It's notoriously difficult to answer. There have been few large studies of dietary ...
Multiple Sclerosis News Today

Mild MS disability causes hidden workplace challenges, study finds

Mild MS symptoms, such as fatigue, can accumulate, creating difficulties for employees in performing their jobs. Despite disclosing their diagnosis, patients worry about how workplace colleagues will ...
IEEE

Treating Mild to Moderate Depression with Transcutaneous Electrical Cranial-Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation: A Study of Brain Functional Networks

Abstract: Transcutaneous electrical cranial-auricular acupoints stimulation (TECAS) has been recognized as a promising therapeutic approach for depression. However, the efficacy of TECAS varies among ...
USA Today

The pending Supreme Court decision that worries disability rights groups

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...
PBS

LISTEN: Supreme Court considers Alabama’s appeal to execute man with an intellectual disability

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...
Disability Scoop

Supreme Court To Hear Case On Intellectual Disability

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...
Mother Jones

Alabama Wants to Lower the Bar for Executing Disabled People—if SCOTUS Lets It

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death ...
Medical Xpress

Phase III success for rocatinlimab in moderate-to-severe eczema

An international team of investigators has reported results from the first Phase III clinical trials of rocatinlimab, a novel treatment for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (eczema). The findings ...