FDA Tells Massachusetts Group Home to Stop Shocking Its Disabled Residents

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2016 The government questions whether the Judge Rotenberg Center has been straight with families about the risks of its electrical shock devices and alternative treatments. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

U.S. Government Finally Forgives Billions in Student Debt of Those Who’ve Become Disabled

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2016 The move comes after a ProPublica investigation documenting how the government made it difficult for disabled borrowers to have their student loans forgiven. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bernie Sanders Is Tapping Into a Vein of Anger Over Health Care

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Jan 14, 2016 What to do about Obamacare divides the senator from his chief rival, Hillary Clinton. She would merely shore up gaps in the program. The Vermont senator, however, goes further, and his vision of health care as a universal right could resonate among voters. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Texas Halts Execution of Robert James Campbell at Eleventh Hour

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2014 A court in Texas halted an execution Tuesday with just hours to spare of a convicted murderer who had appealed on grounds he suffered intellectual disabilities. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Where Does Depression Hurt? A Map of World Clinical Diagnoses

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2013 The second leading cause of disability, clinical depression is a widespread disorder. A new study shows the rates at which each country suffers depression and speculates as to the reasons why, for example, Afghanistan has the most incidences of depression while Japan has the fewest. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

No Access for Handicapped

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Death for the Disabled: Should We Kill Freddie Lee Hall?

Bill Blum / Truthdig Oct 25, 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court now faces what may be the most important legal challenge to the death penalty in years. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Goodwill Ain’t So Great

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2013 The nonprofit agency takes advantage of workers with disabilities thanks to an antiquated act; people who stay up late show a higher incidence of the "Dark Triad" of personality traits -- Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism; meanwhile, the Egyptian military's civilian death count is proof the Arab Spring has been halted. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Would You Pay the Price of a Longer Life?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 20, 2013 Two studies suggest living longer may come with a number of troublesome symptoms and a high risk of disability that increase caregiving needs in the twilight years of life. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Watch: Rare Footage of FDR in a Wheelchair

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jul 11, 2013 One of our greatest presidents was disabled, a secret so well kept that the footage just uncovered of Franklin Delano Roosevelt being pushed in the wheelchair on which he relied is making headlines. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

GOP Senators Kill Treaty That Would Have Protected Disabled

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Dec 6, 2012 The international treaty forbids discrimination against those with disabilities. So why didn't Republicans want to pass it? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Charity Can Be Deadly to the Disabled

By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law Sep 20, 2012 A wheelchair innovator says the charity model does more harm than good for the 55 million paraplegics in the developing world. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )