ABCNEWS - WATCH: Quadriplegic U.S. army veteran surprised with life-changing gift
A U.S. army veteran injured in the line of duty and his family receive accessible vehicle from the Gary Sinise Foundation and Wells Fargo.
REDSTATE (Jennifer Oliver O'Connell) - Feel-Good Friday: College Grad With Medical Needs Walks With Her Service Dog, Who Gets Special Honor
NPR (Jon Hamilton) - A brain-controlled system may help listeners with hearing loss cut through the noise
A hearing system that monitors brain waves could help people with hearing loss communicate in noisy environments.
NPR (Sacha Pfeiffer) - Drive 5 hours or fly 20 minutes? Remote towns suffer from lack of year-round flights
A federal program that pays airlines to operate in small and rural communities could have its budget cut in half, leaving parts of the country with no flight options.
A federal program that pays airlines to operate in small and rural communities could have its budget cut in half, leaving parts of the country with no flight options.Open
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Family of boy with rare disorder raises $500K for new playground
ABC News' Danny New talks to the family of Bedford Erickson, a 3-year-old boy with a rare genetic disorder, who are raising funds to build an inclusive playground.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: 'Songs In Sign Language' coming to Disney+
Musical sequences from three of Disney's most recent blockbusters are being reimagined for the deaf community.
NPR (Jonaki Mehta) - These blind students say their college blocked their education. A new rule could help
Higher education is especially reliant on computers and phones, but accessibility for people with disabilities has often been forgotten. A new federal rule could change that.
NPR (Emily Chen-Newton) - At the Winter Paralympics, some athletes have found business opportunities
At the Winter Paralympics, athletes with prosthetics often modify them to fit their bodies more precisely. That has led to some competitors starting their own businesses to help fellow amputees.
AXIOS (Caitlin Owens) - The era of Doctor AI is already here
Like it or not, consumers are already consulting AI for medical advice whenever they want to. Why it matters: This is opening access to medical information in an entirely new way. The problem is, that advice may not always be very good. Where it stands: OpenAI put out some numbers in January: More than 40 million people ask its ChatGPT health care-related questions every day, and 1 in 4 of the tool's approximately 800 million regular users submits a health care prompt every week. - The careful debate over how AI should be deployed, regulated and evaluated in clinical settings often fails to acknowledge that the cat's already out of the bag when it comes to direct-to-consumer use. - "Too often people are using this as an expert and not…
Like it or not, consumers are already consulting AI for medical advice whenever they want to. Why it matters: This is opening access to medical information in an entirely new way. The problem is, that advice may not always be very good. Where it stands: OpenAI put out some numbers in January: More than 40 million people ask its ChatGPT health care-related questions every day, and 1 in 4 of the tool's approximately 800 million regular users submits a health care prompt every week. - The careful debate over how AI should be deployed, regulated and evaluated in clinical settings often fails to acknowledge that the cat's already out of the bag when it comes to direct-to-consumer use. - "Too often people are using this as an expert and not…Open
NYTIMES (Mark Arsenault and Steven Rich) - Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools
Universities from Harvard to Hampshire have admitted significantly more students with disabilities over the last decade, as diagnoses for A.D.H.D. and anxiety increase.