One of the world’s rare female Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients has defied doctors’ predictions that she wouldn’t live past age seven by thriving with a life-saving device ...

A woman who is recovering from open-back spinal fusion surgery will walk a half marathon to raise money for a baby loss charity. Elanor Ferguson, from Ramsgate in Kent, underwent years of surgery for ...

Being a cat with special needs can't be easy, especially when their differences keep them from running and playing with the ...

Dominique Townsend says the challenges she's faced inspired her to begin developing RideAble, a rideshare service designed ...

Buddhist monk Bhante Dam Phommasan, abbot at a Georgia temple who was badly injured during a peace walk last fall, took his first steps this week with a prosthetic leg.

Suzy Britain, 62, weighed 208lbs and a size 18 at her heaviest and was traveling to visit her sister in New York when a walk to her connecting gate in Philadelphia turned into an exhausting ordeal ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — The Olympics are over, but the action continues in Italy next week with the Paralympics Games. Two Paralympic qualifiers from Oregon will be among those hitting the slopes in ...

Next Friday, the 2026 Paralympic Games kick off in Milan Cortina, the same region in Northern Italy that hosted the recently concluded Winter Olympics. Anna Soens is an alpine skier from Bend with ...

MADRID, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Spain's Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by the father of a 25‑year‑old paraplegic woman who opposes her access to euthanasia, the court said in a statement on ...

EASTHAM, Mass. (WPRI) — The search for a missing man on Cape Cod has been suspended after he and his wife fell through ice while walking their dog on Saturday. Eastham police were called to First ...