Fire investigators blamed the lithium-ion battery in an electric wheelchair for a fire that sent two elderly people to the hospital. The Ann Arbor Fire Department said in a news release that it was ...

Liz Henry, who works part time at the Disability Cultural Center, lives on a hill in Bernal Heights. Publicly accessible wheelchair charging stations, they say, will prevent chair users from being ...

Travelers who bring their own electric wheelchairs will need to take additional steps to fly with the medical devices. Passengers will have to remove the lithium batteries of both electric wheelchairs ...

Hate to ask, but I can use some help with getting the batteries (it needs two) for my power Wheelchair. The ones that are in it are 5 and 1/2 years old and are dying and will not hold a charge very ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin's wheelchair wasn't allowed on a Lufthansa flight out of Boston due to the type of batteries powering it. Langevin, who is a quadriplegic, serves as a ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A family's travel experience at Tampa International Airport has them raising concerns about how important information about wheelchairs is distributed. Shannon Butler said her husband, ...