The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a ruling Monday that will make hearing aids available over the counter without a prescription or an appointment. It’s a game-changer for many disabled ...

JAIPREET VIRDI is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability at the University of Delaware, and the author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. For the past two years, analysts ...

In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.” Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a ...

Though the prevalence of disability continues to rise among the over fifties, many people do not have access to the mobility aids—such as canes, walkers, or wheelchairs—that are essential for ...

Disabled people are being let down by a disability aids market plagued by faulty products and poor service, Citizens Advice has warned. The charity said it helped someone with a complaint about a ...