Japanese bureaucracy receives a lot of criticism, most of it appropriate, but the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's imposition of regulations obliging private companies, as well as central and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken Feb. 10, 2014 shows Matthew McMeekin getting off a bus at his home in Bethesda, Md. as he returns from work. Most ...

A facility for the intellectually disabled run by the Yamagata Prefectural Government had female patients undergo group sterilizations in the 1960s under the now-defunct eugenics protection law ...

Caroline Roche’s daughters brought her out for coffee and put the question to her straight. What was going to happen to their 31-year-old intellectually disabled sister when Caroline could no longer ...

The Chiba District Court has handed down a suspended sentence to a 78-year-old man accused of killing his severely intellectually disabled 44-year-old son, whom he was caring for at home. The court ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who has been on California's death row for more than three decades can't be executed because he's intellectually disabled, the state's highest court ruled Thursday. In a ...

New Zealanders with intellectual disabilities face significantly higher rates of suspension, unemployment, and chronic health ...

Mumbai, Dec 15: After missing for 11 years, a 30-year-old intellectually disabled man, who is a nephew of an ex-Congress MLA, finally found his way back to his Gujarat home, thanks to the L T Marg ...