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Do E-bike Bans Violate Amputees’ Rights?

Do E-bike Bans Violate Amputees’ Rights?

When a town barred Beth Hudson, a below-knee amputee, from riding her e-bike, Hudson felt they were violating the ADA ...
Prosthetic Insurance Coverage for Amputees: 2024 Legislation Tracker

Prosthetic Insurance Coverage for Amputees: 2024 Legislation Tracker

Use Amplitude's state-by-state bill tracker to follow the progress of 2024's So Every Body Can Move bills, which are designed ...
Key Findings From the Hanger Institute's Annual Report

Key Findings From the Hanger Institute’s Annual Report

Want a user-friendly summary of amputee-related research and clinical data? Look no further than the annual report released last week ...
How I Became an Amputee Punk

How I Became an Amputee Punk

When Hugh Boyle was insulted as "a one-legged punk," he laughed off the taunt and used it as inspiration for ...
Why Do Women Get Less Effective Amputee Care?

Why Do Women Get Less Effective Amputee Care?

It’s well documented that race, income, and geography can influence amputees’ health status. But there’s another fault line in patient ...
Amputee Filmmakers Shine in 2024 Disability Film Challenge

Amputee Filmmakers Shine in 2024 Disability Film Challenge

It was another record-setting year for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, with 136 entries. And as always, films by amputee ...

OPAF Hosts Shriners First Clinics

OPAF and The First Clinics hosted two First Clinics for Shriners Hospitals for Children - Philadelphia on April 23. The ...
Tips for Communicating With Insurers

Tips for Communicating With Insurers

As an amputee, you'll almost certainly need to deal with insurance providers from time to time. Knowing how to effectively ...
Team Develops New Method to Fight Antibiotic-resistant Infections

Team Develops New Method to Fight Antibiotic-resistant Infections

Rice and his team have been able to invigorate older drugs from the penicillin family by combining them with BPEI ...

Starving Cancer May Be the Key to New Treatments

Researchers have identified a vital supply route that cancer cells use to obtain their nutrients, in a discovery that could ...
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