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Youth Games Exclusion 'Unlawful' Children with learning disabilities will no longer be left out of the UK schools' equivalent of the Olympics after a threat of leg... Bafta Bitterness After Film About Disability... Bafta has been drawn into a bitter row with the organisers of a disability film festival after refusing to screen a documentary ab... Blue Badge Parking Scheme To Include... TreeHouse chair of trustees, Lord Clement-Jones, today in parliament secured a position from the Department for Transport that the... FDA Approves Medtronic Pain Relief Device... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Medtronic’s new rechargeable neurostimulation system, RestoreULTRA. Carer's Case 'May Sour Relations' A landmark case which could give new rights to millions of carers may affect workplace relations, according to the Federation of S... Millions 'Wrongly Claim Benefit' Less than a third of the UK's 2.7 million benefit claimants are legitimately incapacitated, a government welfare adviser has said. A Laddish Website for Lads' Disease... When Phil Morris got testicular cancer he was disappointed to find that there were no websites to give him the help he felt he nee... More Rail Stations to be Made... Rail Minister, Tom Harris, today announced additional funding for upgrades to railway stations across England and Wales, to make r... Brown to Make Care a Priority... Gordon Brown is to make expanding social care a key priority, the Independent reports. Stem Cell Transplants 'May Benefit Stroke... Stroke victims could see their condition improve after receiving stem cell transplants, two separate studies have concluded today. Young and Old Happiest as Depression... For both men and women in the UK and US depression peaks in people's 40s, a new study of mental wellbeing has found. UK's Two-tier Social Care System 'Needs... There is an "urgent" need for a fair and equitable social care system in the UK, a report has concluded today. |
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