Cognitive disability emerged as the most prevalent disability in the United States in 2022, affecting 13.9% of adults. This is according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual ...

The Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is dramatically scaling back its isolation recommendations for those who test positive for COVID-19, a decision that advocates say puts people with ...

July 16 (UPI) --More than a fourth of U.S. adults in 2022 reported having a disability, which increases their potential for contracting long COVID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Professor Michelle Travis covers emerging workplace law and policy. As the pandemic has increased the number of individuals with ...

ATLANTA - American adults with disabilities have lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than people without a disability and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it’s not because ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preventing employees with disabilities from utilizing telework as a reasonable accommodation, according to the unions representing those workers, who ...

The CDC will no longer permit employees to work from home, even for those with disabilities or medical issues who previously had reasonable accommodations. This new policy from the Department of ...

Down syndrome advocates want the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to rethink how they’re classifying the chromosomal condition. At present, the health ...

Meetings with the CDC have been devastating to watch, one advocate said. After the omicron wave of COVID-19 receded earlier this winter, states and cities across the country moved quickly to ease ...

People with disabilities are less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, new research suggests, but it’s not because they are reluctant to do so. In fact, access seems to be the problem. In a study ...

Business associates in 20s, 40s, and 50s relaxing and exchanging ideas in sitting area of modern office. Disabilities affect a quarter of the people living in the United States and abroad. With ...

Employees with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer be allowed to work from home, even if they previously were able to do so as part of reasonable accommodations for a ...