Q&A: Atsena Therapeutics’ gene therapy for inherited blindness shows promise
Seven years after the FDA approved Luxterna, scientists have yet to bring another congenital blindness…
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How Paralympic athletes are helping science learn more about neuropathic pain
Elite athletes train and compete under a watchful eye. Fans and coaches track and measure…
Transparent mice and using zip codes to predict heart risk
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Depression: How brain scans helped predict long-term treatment outcomes
Depression has many faces. Some people can’t sleep, while others struggle to get out of…
Opinion: STAT readers on mask bans, cancer screening, and empathy and AI
First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences…
Alzheimer’s drug may raise the risk of brain bleed in patients with Down syndrome
A year ago, after much fanfare and controversy, the Food and Drug Administration approved Eisai…
Opinion: Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities
Last week, a mask ban in Nassau County, New York was signed into law. If…
As climate changes, scorching summers bring deadly heat for people with disabilities
Degree by degree, the earth’s temperature ticks up. Heat records fall as reliably as the…
Clinical trials exclude disabled Americans because federal agencies failed them, new report finds
People with disabilities are largely excluded from clinical trials that could benefit them because federal…
ALS patient lived with a brain-computer interface for 7 years. Here’s what researchers learned
Brain-computer interfaces are still years, and several FDA approvals, away from being available on the…
A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor
When Jennifer Wexton rises Thursday to speak on the House floor, something she has done…
Robotic aid helped improve balance, gait in children with cerebral palsy
For many kids with cerebral palsy, walking is taxing. They might spend thousands of hours…
Key disability civil rights law will get a big refresh under Sen. Bob Casey’s new bill
A key piece of disability civil rights law could get a much-needed refresh. Sen. Bob…
VA disputes claim that removing race from lung tests would greatly alter disability payments
Veterans Affairs department officials said Monday they have launched a study to determine how removing…
Long Covid is more prevalent among Americans with disabilities, new CDC data show
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released a trove of data on Americans…
STAT+: Novel amputation procedure makes walking with a prosthetic leg feel more seamless
A novel surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help…
Blind employee takes VA to court saying new EHR from Oracle is inaccessible
A blind employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs is suing the federal agency on…
Supreme Court outlawed segregation of disabled people 25 years ago. But change has come slowly
As a toddler, Veronica Ayala loved Fridays. At 5 o’clock sharp, her mom whisked her…
STAT+: Tweezers? Wrenches? Researchers plot prosthetics’ future with tools, not hands
Nearly half of people with upper-limb prosthetics abandon them. They’re often uncomfortable, dysfunctional or just…
STAT+: Watch: How Harvard researchers boosted an ALS patient’s independence with a box and a balloon
John Goodson practiced medicine for almost 50 years at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. As…
‘Concern is real’ about long Covid’s impact on Americans and disability claims, report says
The Covid pandemic has been called a “mass-disabling event” since early on — the kind…
Opinion: Achieving telehealth equity for people with hearing loss
Gen Z has made captioning cool. Captions are now widely available in social media, entertainment…
STAT+: Gene therapies for deafness dredge up an old question: Do deaf people want a ‘cure’?
When Yilai Shu was training to be an otolaryngologist in Shanghai, in the mid 2000s,…
STAT+: A novel spinal cord stimulator treats paralysis without surgery. FDA will rule on it soon
After his spinal cord injury in 2014, Sherown Campbell worked hard to regain as much…
STAT+: Gene therapy trial targeting rare form of deafness shows ‘jaw-droppingly good’ results
Two congenitally deaf children can hear for the first time after being treated with gene…
New Medicaid rule expected to lower wait times for home-based care, raise caregiver wages
Caregivers for older adults and people with disabilities could see a bump in their wages…
After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times
When Maureen Amirault purchased her first electric wheelchair in 2020, she had been living with…
Why very few people who are eligible for a cochlear implant actually get one
Cochlear implants have successfully improved hearing loss for decades, but few people who qualify for…
Opinion: Disabled scientists are often left out of academia. The NIH can help change that
Despite being the largest minority in the nation, disabled people like us have been structurally…
A disabled artist’s journey from ‘Oh, sorry’ to social justice activism
Sonya Rio-Glick was born three months and six days premature, alongside her twin, in the…
Medical devices with screens aren’t accessible to the blind. Congress has chance to change that
Katie Keim was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1967 when she was eight, well…
Opinion: After 20 years in rehabilitation research, my young daughter’s traumatic brain injury transformed my mind and my career
In the spring of 2020, my almost 4-year-old daughter Livie sustained a severe traumatic brain…
Opinion: How to ensure the NIH’s decision to recognize people with disabilities as a health disparity population makes a difference
My daughter Katie was born with severe disabilities. She went on to develop profound autism,…
Doctors call out ableism in cancer care: ‘The biggest accommodation is attitude’
People with disabilities often spend a lot of time navigating bias and educating others about…
Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients
Oliver McGowan was 18 years old when he was hospitalized in England with recurrent seizures…
Opinion: STAT readers on burnt-out infectious disease doctors, 12-month prescriptions, and counting disabled Americans
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: The next Census could undercount the number of disabled Americans by 20 million
About 20 million disabled people will be erased if the U.S. Census Bureau moves forward…
Opinion: Congress must reauthorize the National Advisory Committee for Seniors and Disasters
With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker of the House, the urgent and…
A psychologist’s lifetime of challenging assumptions while living with paralysis
Nikki Saltzburg was born three months premature while her parents were vacationing in Bermuda. With…
Opinion: Dearth of disability-related Covid-19 data can confound response efforts
After a few days of feeling feverish, exhausted, achy, and having an intermittent sore throat,…