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Leticia de Souza Soares, who suffers from pain and health problems caused by long COVID-19, stands on the balcony of her home, in Salvador, Brazil, on December 8, 2023.

From Long Flu to Long COVID: A Brief History of Postviral Illness

by Emily Mendenhall, Philip Finkelstein

Despite centuries of examples, long-term maladies after flu and other viruses remain absent from mainstream policy

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Damian Santomauro with his father on a countryside family trip in Victoria, Australia, circa 1992.

Autism and Identity: Navigating Disability Versus Difference

by Damian Santomauro

A personal account describes the challenges many people on the autism spectrum face and the need for better support

Alexis Hanquinquant of France and Nantenin Keita of France prepare to light the cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
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Closing the Paralympic-Olympic Viewership Divide

by Mariel Ferragamo

The Paris Paralympic Games had great visibility, but there's more to pulling off an equitable competition

A man helps take a plaster cast of a young boy's limb.
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U.S. Recycled Prosthetic Limbs Help Sri Lankan Amputees Walk Again

by Tristan Bove

A 200-year-old charity is tapping modern technology to help Sri Lanka weather a silent health crisis

A Syrian physical therapist with a prosthetic leg, wearing blue scrubs and gesturing compassionately talks to a patient, who also has a prosthetic leg at the Al-Bab Center for prosthetics. Both men are sitting in chairs talking eye-to-eye.
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The Power of Health Information for People with Disabilities

by Joshua Korn, Becca Brunner-Caple, Cynthia Bauer, Jessica Charles

Knowledge gaps, data deficits, and stigma have stalled access to health information and care