January 29, 2026
(IB Times) – Elon Musk has unveiled new developments at Neuralink, outlining a more powerful brain implant and signalling that a vision-restoring device is nearing human trials. The announcement was made during recent public discussions and amplified across X, as … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Plough) – Our son Yusang has Down syndrome. He saved another child’s life. My wife and I had just learned that a couple from our church were wrestling with grief and confusion, so that cold Sunday evening, I set out … Read More
January 13, 2026
(AP) – Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken … Read More
December 30, 2025
(The Guardian) – Young adults and teenagers prevalent in ‘skyrocketing’ admissions linked to class B drug, say doctors in northern England Few places have felt the effects of that increase more than urology departments. Chronic ketamine use can cause irreversible … Read More
December 30, 2025
(The New Yorker) – Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them? What’s more, the main principles that inform those methods have been shown to underlie … Read More
December 23, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Other families around the country have also recently had their access to the therapy challenged as state officials make deep cuts to Medicaid — the public health insurance that covers people with low incomes and disabilities. … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – Medicaid pays healthcare providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria … Read More
December 3, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Spinal cord injuries, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis have left tens of thousands of Americans permanently dependent on ventilators. The barriers these patients face offer a stark example of … Read More
December 3, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 24, 2025
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 46, no 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
November 19, 2025
(IEEE Spectrum) – The tech is proving its worth, but lower costs are elusive When I asked Jeff Erenstone, a prosthetist for over two decades and founder of prosthetic limb non-profit Operation Namaste, why 3D printed designs hadn’t lowered costs, … Read More
November 18, 2025
(WSJ) – Many doctors listed in insurer networks treat few or no Medicaid recipients, leaving patients with long waits; ‘Don’t get sick.’ Private Medicaid insurers dominate the government healthcare program that covers more than 70 million low-income and disabled Americans. … Read More
November 11, 2025
(New York Times) – Diagnosed with A.L.S., they traded stories, drank tequila and made grim jokes at a unique annual gathering on Cape Cod. Ms. Brous, 38, who lives in Hico, Texas, was one of dozens of women who converged … Read More
November 5, 2025
Hastings Center Report (vol. 55, Issue S1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 16, 2025
(Wired) – An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services. Around half a dozen people living with a variety of facial differences—from … Read More
October 16, 2025
(BBC) – When Jess Smith uploaded a photo of herself into an AI image generator this summer, she wasn’t expecting a social experiment. The former Australian Paralympic swimmer wanted to vamp up her headshot and uploaded a full-length photo of … Read More
October 13, 2025
(Aeon) – The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories To use the language of the 19th century, how could a person be at once both a ‘genius’ and an ‘idiot’? … Read More
October 6, 2025
(ITV) – The family of a disabled man who died after not being given any food for nine days whilst being treated in an NHS hospital has told ITV News “we thought he was having nutrition… but as it turns … Read More
October 2, 2025
(New York Times) – Families of people with severe autism say the repeated expansion of the diagnosis pushed them to the sidelines. A new focus on the disorder has opened the way for them to argue their cause. Now Ms. … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Los Angeles Times via Yahoo!) – A Southern California man with cerebral palsy used his iPhone to record his frustration as a delivery robot continuously swerved into the path of his mobility scooter before suddenly braking, resulting in a bot-on-chair … Read More
August 26, 2025
(New York Times) – The painting beckoned me from across the room. In a bright, high-ceilinged gallery of the Courtauld, a small museum in London known for its collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, I moved past van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait … Read More
August 25, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Cutting-edge technology could one day transform treatment for Down syndrome, as researchers have successfully deleted an extra chromosome in lab-grown cells. Down syndrome – which occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Nature) – Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation. A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body … Read More
August 21, 2025
(NPR) – As more states adopt laws allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives, some groups representing disabled people are suing to stop them. In June, New York became the 11th state to pass legislation allowing terminally ill … Read More
August 11, 2025
(CBS News) – James Robert III was born with no fingers on his left hand, and he is using his disability to fuel a passion to help others like him. The recent Louisiana State University graduate is pursuing a master’s degree in … Read More
