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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network released a new report March 18 that calls for increased protections for people with disabilities when health care providers make life-saving organ transplant decisions.
Surveys have found that health care providers decline to refer people …
As part of its new strictest-in-the-nation abortion law, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed a bill March 26 making the state the first in the nation to bar abortions on the basis of a fetus’ disability.
The “fetal abnormalities” bill …
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, which prohibited discrimination based on disability. One of the factors under the ADA was that professionals in the medical field can’t discriminate against their patients as well. It is mandatory …
The “journalists’ bible” announced March 7 that it is adding a section providing guidance to reporters when describing mental illness. “It is the right time to address how journalists handle questions of mental illness in coverage,” AP Senior Vice …
A recent class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of nearly 10,000 people with disabilities, accuses the state of Maryland of consistently violating state law by failing to process Medicaid applications in a timely manner.
Under Maryland state law, the state …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit lifted a preliminary injunction December 13 that had blocked the state of California from implementing cuts to the rates it pays to Medicaid providers by as much of 10 percent, pursuant to …
This week, I clicked my way through links and postings in order to find you inspirational, insightful and interesting items for your viewing pleasure.
1.Starting May 2013, the American Psychiatric Association’s new diagnostic manual, which is known as the …
In a sweeping 153-page decision, a federal district court ruled December 21 that the Alabama Department Corrections’ policy of housing HIV-positive inmates in a separate facility violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“Ending a policy that treated human being …
Death with dignity/assisted suicide legislation defeated
Connecticut will not further pursue a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide bill this year, after a House committee voted April 6 to prevent the bill from coming up for a vote.
The defeat is the latest in a string of …