(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor wrote the following column to explain why the State is challenging a new Final Rule related to the Rehabilitation Act, adopted last year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To be clear: this case is not asking the court to eliminate the Rehabilitation Act […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska’s continued participation in the Texas v. Becerra multistate case ensures that the Rehabilitation Act will continue, without undue interference, to protect the rights of persons with disabilities and the federal funding that supports existing Section 504 protections. The new federal regulations that Alaska is opposing would allow the federal government to unilaterally reinterpret […]
Depression is a common risk for people who have lost their vision from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but a new study shows that a type of rehabilitation therapy can cut this risk in half. The study was funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health. “Our results emphasize the […]