Disabled workers who are employed were paid an average of 74 cents on the dollar in 2020 compared with nondisabled workers.

And it costs us 27% more to have the same standard of living as an abled person.

results of a national survey of physicians: only 56% reported that they welcome patients with disabilities to their practice; 36% said that they know “little or nothing” about the ADA; and only 41% were confident that they could provide similar quality of care to patients with disabilities as they could to those without disability.

Surprising no one who has ever listened to a fat, Black or brown, or chronically ill person:

Researchers who study Type 2 diabetes have reached a stark conclusion: There is no device, no drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that are hard to navigate on foot and inequitable access to health care, particularly in minority communities.

A medication prescribed for Parkinson’s and other diseases can transform a patient’s personality, unleashing heroic bouts of creativity or a torrent of shocking, even criminal behavior