disability

This was an interesting and uplifting read, and not before time, I guess. NPR: Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine Doctors are often portrayed as pinnacles of health, superhumans responding to emergencies around the clock, performing miracles of all kinds. They're...

Brain volume loss in Multiple Sclerosis patients with no evidence of disease activity predicts future disability. Brain atrophy has recently been recognized as a pivotal biomarker that is closely associated to disability in patients with MS...

Deadline of November 10th 2017 to submit your input to the parliamentary inquiry on PIP and ESA http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/work-and-pensions-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/pip-esa-assessments-17-19/

Moderator note: Please be aware that this thread is not in the Members Only Section and therefore content is available to search engines. I have reported to the Financial Conduct Authority that companies are still including ME in mental health exclusions which goes against all the guidelines...

Justice, finally, for stricken Washington Post reporter by David Beard Here's a short article by a former colleague of Brian Vastag ( @B_V ) published on the Poynter website. Despite its brevity, there are enough links to provide details for the less-informed...

http://inclusionproject.org.uk/social-model/ill-versus-disabled-is-there-a-distinction-between-the-two/

Caroline C. Kingdon, Erinna W. Bowman, Hayley Curran, Luis Nacul, Eliana M. Lacerda https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41669-018-0071-6

From HuffPost: The GOP Wants To Gut The Americans With Disabilities Act And from NBC News: The GOP's H.R. 620 will gut the Americans With Disabilities Act, pushing disability rights back to 1989 From the NBC News article:

[Note to moderators: I think this belongs in general news - please move if this is the wrong forum] New article by David M. Perry (twitter handle @Lollardfish) talking about the film Unrest. https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-disabled-people-care-for-each-other-when-doctors-cant

A very sympathetic piece towards living with a disability, featuring amongst other a patient with ME and calling it myalgic encephalomyelitis. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2018/01/10/for-some-receiving-disability-benefits-the-desire-to-work-will-never-cease/?utm_term=.3c33bec6f9ab

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/13/people-accept-that-im-gay-but-not-that-im-disabled

This blog/ article has a few red flags..........maybe the writer should have done a bit more research or is it deliberate? Starts off OK ish..... "British people suffering from Myalgic Encephalitis otherwise known as ME or Chronic Fatigue syndrome (CFS) have suffered from over 30 years of...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/17/world/amy-wright-2017-cnn-hero-of-the-year/index.html Amy Wright is 2017 CNN Hero of the Year Wright advocates for people with disabilities She employs dozens of people with physical and intellectual challenges at her coffee shop “My children are not broken," Amy...

Author has ME/CFS. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/not-everyone-with-a-disability-wants-a-cure--nor-should-we-expect-them-to-20171201-gzx8ys.html