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For people with disabilities, healthcare providers often are unprepared to give effective care, Kara Ayers, Karen Kostelac and Susan Havercamp say.

Adhering to a diet and exercise program to manage health can be a challenge for anyone.

How America’s Vaccine System Makes People With Health Problems Fight for a Place in Line At least 37 states allow people with certain health conditions to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, according to a New York Times survey. But a new skirmish has emerged over who will go first. Waiting in line for Covid vaccines at a mass vaccination site in San Francisco.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times Published March 9, 2021Updated March 27, 2021 As states have begun vaccinating Americans with medical conditions that may raise their risk for a severe case of Covid-19, they are setting widely vary...

Feb. 25, 2021 In early January, while she was helping her grandfather register for a coronavirus vaccine, 21-year-old Sabrina Epstein realized that she was also eligible to be vaccinated in Texas, where her grandfather lived. But in Maryland, where she is a senior studying public health at Johns Hopkins University, she wasn’t eligible. As she started looking more closely at policies, Epstein realized that states across the country had prioritized people with chronic health conditions and disabilities, like hers, either in varied phases or not at all — and according to vastly different def...

They have disabilities and serious medical conditions. But under state guidelines, they don’t qualify for early vaccination Deanna Pan © John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Monica Jennings has 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by a tiny missing piece of her 22nd chromosome. Under Massachusetts’ rules dictating who is eligible for early access to the COVID-19 vaccine, Jennings doesn’t qualify despite a variety of health conditions. WEYMOUTH — Since the pandemic began, Monica Jennings’s world, already small, has gotten smaller. Friends no longer visit. Fami...