Everything you need to know about stroke
Actor Luke Perry died yesterday (4 March), after experiencing a stroke last week. In light of the sad news, what are the symptoms to look…
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Ensure your holiday is insured
If you’re jetting off overseas soon, you’ll no doubt have a sizeable to-do list to get through before take off – and make sure that…
Love is all around
Let’s talk about sex baby – and let’s talk about improving sex education for disabled people. We need to end the idea that people with…
Over three quarters of people with a learning disability are missing out on vital support at GP surgeries
Mencap and NHS England launch Don’t Miss Out guides and video to improve healthcare provision for people with a learning disability Learning disability charity Mencap,…
How would leaving the EU affect disabled people?
As the EU referendum fast approaches the debates between the Brexit and Votin camps continue to intensify. So far trade, immigration and the future of…
Dementia Diagnosis To Be Overhauled
One Year On from the Prime Minister’s Challenge NHS England is to tackle “shockingly low” dementia diagnosis rates with plans that could see 160,000 people…
People will see health and social care fully joined-up by 2018
Coordination will see better care and support, fewer people falling through the cracks and a drop in distressing and expensive problems like patients needlessly stuck…
Care home residents improve their heart health
Residents at Little Arches Residential Home in Rotherham have become a shadow of their former selves after losing weight as part of a project to…
“Children and adults at risk from failure of heart and lung checks”
Vulnerable patients with fatal cardiac and respiratory problems are not receiving regular heart and lung checks, risking early death, according to a report published this…
Action Duchenne supports successful bid for EU5.5m research funding into Exon 53
Hope for boys with Duchenne with new EU funding for drug trials to treat muscle wasting disease Action Duchenne, a leading national charity focused on…