Jackie Mann looks healthy at age 57. She has a spark in her eye, color in her cheeks and a bounce in her step. Diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago, she has completed radiation treatments and ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — When doctors deliver babies, most of them can hear the first life-affirming cries of the infants as they enter the world. Dr. Philip Zazove can't. In 1981, Dr. Philip Zazove ...

Dr. Lauren Riley will be played by Shoshannah Stern, who herself is deaf. When "Grey's Anatomy" airs Thursday night on ABC, it will become one of the first primetime television series to introduce a ...

Grey's Anatomy continues to break barriers. Beginning with Thursday's episode, titled "Save the Last Dance for Me" and directed by Jesse Williams, ABC's long-running medical drama welcomes deaf ...

If you think communicating with your doctor is difficult, consider the plight of the hearing-impaired. Often doctor and hearing-impaired patient literally speak separate languages – English and ...

Rochester, N.Y. – First-year medical students at the University of Rochester are learning about deaf culture in order to ensure deaf patients receive proper medical treatment. The annual “Deaf Strong ...

Aspen Camp School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing celebrates 51 years this summer with its annual Deaf Camp Benefit on Saturday. The New York City-born Spin Doctors, famous for the hit “Two Princes,” ...

For three years, Mary Salawu kept on visiting the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, complaining about having an indescribable pain in her stomach, but the doctors didn ...

Nyle DiMarco is living a life beyond anything he likely could have imagined. The deaf model and actor has been breaking barriers in his own career while actively advocating — and opening doors — for ...

When “Grey’s Anatomy” introduces Dr. Lauren Riley in its Feb. 13 episode, “Save the Last Dance for Me,” it marks more than just Shoshannah Stern’s debut on the long-running drama: Dr. Riley is also ...