Exclusive live coverage from Amplitude. Winter the dolphin made an appearance at the blue carpet event. Photographs by Laura Fonda ...

Attending the Amputee Coalition's youth camp allows campers, such as (from left) Kylie Smith and Alexandra Jobe, to make new ...

National Disability Institute (NDI) has extended the entry deadline for its 4th Annual My American Dream - Voices of Americans ...

Several nationally recognized organizations are coming together to sponsor a full-day conference that will highlight and mainstream the work of ...

Paralympian Richard Browne shaved three-tenths of a second off of his own 200-meter T44 (single, transtibial amputation or athletes who ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will soon begin reimbursing its physicians for activity trackers that can deliver data ...

The axolotl, a rare and unusual salamander native to Mexico, has the ability to regenerate an amazing variety of body ...

The Ridiculous Obstacle Challenge (ROC) 5k has pledged $100,000 to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) Operation Rebound program using a ...

This year, thousands of people in communities across the country will Join the Millions in the fight to Stop Diabetes® ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) is accepting applications for its annual Access for Athletes grant though December 5. Applicants are ...

Moise Brutus speaks to Össur employees. Photograph courtesy of Össur. Moise Brutus, a triple amputee collegiate cyclist, was surprised with ...

Berling The most recent winners of Ottobock's C-Leg 15-Year Anniversary Photo Contest have been named. The June winner is David ...

WWAST travels the country hosting high-spirited and interactive exhibition games to bring a message of resiliency to communities. Photograph courtesy ...

Healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012-many more in some states than in others-according to a ...

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), a nationwide campaign that raises awareness about disability employment issues and honors the diverse ...

The preview issue of Amplitude has been printed and will be sent the first week of September with the current ...

A new study suggests that uric acid may play a role in causing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors ...

On August 23, Kim De Roy, CPO, PT, set a world record by an athlete with a transtibial amputation at ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its Annual Report on the Federal Work Force Part II: Work Force ...

THE SAGE GROUP, Atlanta, Georgia, a research and consulting company that specializes in atherosclerotic disease in the lower limbs, estimates ...

An Indiana University (IU) Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, master's of business administration (MBA) graduate has been named the winner ...

Working-age adults with disabilities who do not get any aerobic physical activity are 50 percent more likely than their active ...

Running May Reduce Risk of Death for Amputees Regardless of Duration, Speed Running for only a few minutes a day ...

A new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was published in The Lancet ...

R&D Magazine announced that Hugh Herr, PhD, is the winner of its 14th Innovator of the Year Award. The award ...

Most Amputations Are Preventable with Earlier Medical Care, Researchers Say It's no secret that poverty is bad for your health. ...

The Amputee Coalition has named three new members to its Scientific & Medical Advisory Committee (SciMAC). Deb Velez, BSN, MN, ...

Dudley S. Childress, PhD, passed away on August 6, after a long illness. He was 79. Childress was born on ...

New Training Program Prepares Veterans, Others to Enter Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Grabianowski at the DOE Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. He is ...

President Obama traveled to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on August 7, where he signed House Resolution (H.R.) 3230, titled the Veterans ...

The Amputee Coalition announced that Ashby (AJ) Henningsen, 20, of Baltimore, Maryland, is the recipient of the $1,000 Christina Skoski, ...

Illustration of the IMES System courtesy of The Alfred Mann Foundation. When a muscles contracts, it generates electricity. This electrical ...

The preview issue of Amplitude, magazine will be published this month and will be mailed with the September issue of ...

A new report from the National Disability Institute (NDI) shows that 24 years after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics & Prosthetics (NAAOP) has issued the following legislative alert: Congress is poised ...

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism in part of the brain that is key to sensing ...

On July 29, advocates representing civil, human, and disability rights groups from across the country gathered in Washington, DC, to ...

Obesity expert Mohammad Emran, MD, has seen people try everything under the sun to lose weight. In his new book, ...

A team of researchers from the Netherlands examined the use of external lateral stabilization in people with lower-limb amputations. Their ...

The Amputee Coalition has added three employees to its staff. Sarah Hoover has been hired as the research and evaluation ...

Celebrations of the July 26, 1990, signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by President George H. Bush are ...

Adults with a disability are more likely to be obese or extremely obese than those without a disability, according to ...

The Canadian Amputee Golf Association (CAGA) is accepting applications for its academic scholarship. Five scholarships of $1,000 will be awarded. ...

Photograph of the bench dedication ceremony courtesy of Melissa Wolff-Burke and AAC. The Adventure Amputee Camp (AAC) celebrated its 20th ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the availability of up to $8 million in grant funding to provide ...

A researcher from TSRHC's Movement Science Laboratory times a camper's as she runs. Photography courtesy of the Dallas Zoo. Children ...

"A good doctor-patient relationship is essential to achieving the best possible care, but the reality is, most doctors have less ...

Ever find yourself eating so much after an intense exercise session that it threatens to negate all the hard work ...

According to the Caregiver Action Network, there are approximately 90 million family caregivers in the U.S. today, and two out ...

A new study shows that people with limb loss who were treated in inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units had better ...