My Autistic Child Isn’t ‘Diseased’

My Autistic Child Isn’t ‘Diseased’

Finding out that your child is autistic is usually presented as a disaster, a financial and emotional drain that needs a long period of grief to come to terms with. And with one in every 68 children — one for every three classes of primary school kids — receiving this...
Trumpcare Was for CEOs, Not Patients

Trumpcare Was for CEOs, Not Patients

It appears that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s 123-page legislative plan for Trumpcare, the GOP’s so-called “replacement” for Obamacare, is dead — for now, anyway. Republicans tried to rush it through, but not before the Congressional Budget Office...
In OtherWords: March 22, 2017

In OtherWords: March 22, 2017

House Republicans are racing ahead with their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This week in OtherWords, we take a look at one of the less covered aspects of the GOP plan: its impact on America’s devastating opioid crisis. My hometown of...