WASHINGTON – Assessments of a person’s ability to function at work provide important information for disability determinations, and many validated tests are available to assess work-related physical ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

A brief walking assessment can predict new functional limitations in residents who’ve suffered a heart attack, according to a new study from Yale and New York University. The researchers used an ...

Labor's plan to create a new "assessment tool" to determine future NDIS eligibility based on functional need could backfire ...

A recent study published in Frontiers in Public Health evaluated the associations between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet), cognitive risk, and functional ability in older Australian ...

A new study has found that kidney patients begin to show functional decline within six months of initiating dialysis – and the older and more frail the patient, the more abilities are lost, ...

A major revision in how students with disabilities are assessed for MBBS admissions has been introduced by the National Medical Commission (NMC). The new interim guidelines, as reported by Medical ...

Virtual reality isn't just for gaming. Researchers can use virtual reality, or VR, to assess participants' attention, memory and problem-solving abilities in real world settings. By using VR ...

In patients recently hospitalized for decompensated HFrEF, depressive symptom severity is associated with subjective perceptions of functional ability. Depressive symptom severity in patients recently ...