I was nine years old when my life changed forever. It was November 29, 1997 and we – my dad, brothers, sister and I – were ...

What causes mental illness? It's complicated. Although the exact cause of most mental illnesses isn't known, research shows they often come from a complex mix of biological, genetic, psychological ...

But his warning, meant to highlight the hurdles of inaccessible technology, inadvertently highlighted an even larger and more pervasive barrier: ableism. Ableism is the societal package of ...

Just nine weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on a weekday morning on a busy street, the luminaries ...

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The 2019 National Medical Commission guideline requiring an MBBS aspirant to have “both hands intact” “reeks of ableism and has no place in a statutory regulation”, the Supreme Court said Friday.

The court criticised this criterion as being rooted in ableism and instructed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to update its outdated eligibility standards to allow individuals with disabilities ...

The Court said that though it cannot substitute expert opinion, there needs to be flexibility in terms of reasonable accommodation.

“Take your ableism elsewhere ... including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout ...

A new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine focused on deficits in medical training that perpetuate ableism in healthcare for PWD, whom some study participants referred to as ...