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In an effort to ensure access to timely, quality healthcare for America's veterans, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has published ...

A side-by-side comparison of the prosthetic and a natural foot in stiletto heel shoes. Photograph courtesy of the Johns Hopkins ...

As an amputee, you'll almost certainly need to deal with insurance providers from time to time. Knowing how to effectively ...

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

On May 10, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on the Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured ...

Diabetes is a complex disease. Managing it effectively is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor. The American Diabetes Association (Association) believes that ...

Volunteers help a participant with his first ride. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. OPAF and the First Clinics hosted the eighth ...

Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, has launched an online contest that encourages adults with lower-limb loss to share their stories via photo ...

From left, lead researcher Mehri and Menon are leading a team working with Letain on building a better bionic hand. ...

Photograph of a First Things First participant courtesy of Robin Burton. OPAF recently introduced the newest member of the First ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation, Austin, Texas, completed its first round of 2016 grants by awarding $54,000 to eight nonprofit organizations. ...

Eighty-one percent of adults age 50 and older say prescription drug prices are too high, and 87 percent want politicians ...

Yuan Bo Peng. Image courtesy of UTA. A University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) research team has been working on ...

In a new AARP survey of likely voters over age 50, 86 percent say leadership is a very important quality ...

CareGiving.com and Caregiver Monday have partnered to host a series of free online chats for individuals who care for or ...

Safety-net clinics are likely to continue to play a critical role in meeting the needs of insured minority and low-income ...

Athletes sprint toward the finish line at the 2015 Warrior Games. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon Young ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the award of $783,421 in Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology (SAHAT) Grants to ...

Students at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton, Canada, are creating a golf prosthesis to help people with upper-limb ...

The Amputee Coalition has declared April as Limb Loss Awareness Month in order to increase awareness about people living with ...

Zhang and Okada. Photograph courtesy of San Francisco State University/Paul Asper. Professors at San Francisco State University (SF State) have ...

This year, AARP Foundation is again providing free tax assistance and preparation for taxpayers with low to moderate income through ...

Parks (far right) is thankful for the opportunity to act as a mentor at Fort Bliss. U.S. Army photo by ...

Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA) announced that the American International Group (AIG) 2016 Winter Summit, held March 15-18 at Stowe Mountain ...

Military veterans return to the United States with multiple types of trauma and suffer from one of the highest rates ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is partnering with PGA REACH, the philanthropic arm of PGA of America, to bring ...

The National Coalition of Health Care announced that AARP has officially joined the coalition's Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing. AARP ...

Nick Huntington, PhD. Image courtesy of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. The immune cells, called natural killer cells, hunt ...

As an amputee, you are probably aware of the importance of understanding your health insurance policy and its terminology, including coverage ...

Neuroscientists at Duke Health, Durham, North Carolina, have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that allows primates to use only their ...

The O&P Alliance met with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) staff on February 26 in Baltimore to ...

Hundreds of University of Kentucky (UK) students can say they danced the weekend away for a very good cause. DanceBlue ...

A December 2015 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) and another ...

The Amputee Coalition is accepting applications for the Kathy Spozio Bridge to Ability Scholarship to give new amputees the opportunity ...

The Amputee Coalition is accepting applications for the Christina Skoski, MD, Scholarship and the Scott Decker, MD, Memorial Scholarship for ...

HealthSouth Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital is expanding the work it does for amputee patients into the community. The ...

A multiple-exposure image of a new shape-memory polymer reverting to its original shape after being exposed to body temperature. Photograph ...

Research on the OpenNotes model led by a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor finds that follow-up e-mails are ...

The Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) announced the launch of a new online community that will ...

High-deductible health plans are sold as a way for consumers to take greater control over managing their medical costs, but ...

Image courtesy of UCLA. In a study published in Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, an unobtrusive patch on the ...

A new study conducted by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that the financial toxicity resulting ...

Arshad Kudrolli, PhD, a professor of physics at Clark University, is working with Harvard University colleague Chris Rycroft, PhD, an ...

A new graphene-based cellular elastomer, or G-elastomer, has been developed by researchers at Monash University (Monash), Melbourne, Australia, and the ...

Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA) announced that, as part of the Diana Golden Race Development Program, it is offering sponsorships of ...

AARP recently announced the winners of a contest that encouraged filmmakers to tell the story of family caregiving through short ...

An analysis of medical literature to determine whether spinal cord stimulation (SCS) decreases lower-limb amputation found that SCS, rather than ...

Researchers at Kyoto University, Japan, have regenerated functional joints in frogs by activating a newly discovered reintegration mechanism. Further understanding ...

Opioids may cause short-term improvement in mood, but long-term use imposes risk of new-onset depression, according to a Saint Louis ...

A brain region controlling whether we feel happy or sad, as well as addiction, is remodeled by chronic pain, reports ...