This article addresses the situations in which athletes with special needs and considerations participate in sports. The health problems discussed are diabetes mellitus, exercise-induced asthma, exercise-induced anaphylaxis, and epilepsy. (MT)

This article profiles Mike Simmel, a member of the Harlem Wizards professional basketball team and a national spokesman for Epilepsy Awareness. Mike has been diagnosed with epilepsy when he was two-years-old. At age seven, his father gave him a basketball to see if working with the ball would help him overcome his motor skills issues. Mike first…