Ekbom’s disease is a debilitating disorder and treatment is difficult
Neurologists call it the “commonest movement disorder you’ve never heard of”. Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) – or Ekbom’s disease – is the uncontrollable urge to move your legs when resting. About 5-10% of adults will develop it (around five million people in the UK), [...]
Legal and financial disincentives stop people getting checked. Compulsory testing would halt the spread of chlamydia and HIV
We all know the risks of unprotected sex, thanks to public education campaigns. And there have also been efforts to encourage people to seek an STD test, notably for chlamydia, which can cause infertility: another 200,000 people were [...]
Offering up to six weeks of support means people could stay at home for longer, says PM
People aged over 65 could be given up to six weeks′ support to enable them to remain in their own homes after a stay in hospital or residential care, or a fall or an illness, Gordon Brown said today.
The [...]
Home care for cancer patients, child maintenance agency seizes homes, and complaints of prison racism rise
Today’s top Society stories
Brown promises all cancer patients will get home care
Child maintenance agency seizes homes and freezes bank accounts
Complaints of prison racism rise
Leader: public spending – battle of the budgets
Madeleine Bunting: the Gilderdale trial was horrific but neccessary
All [...]
It is dangerous, especially for the vulnerable, to think that assisted dying is the only way to take control of death
When Terry Pratchett described, in his Dimbleby lecture last week, his father’s cheerful macho stoicism – when all the tubes are in and “I’m no good to anybody, tell them to switch me off” – [...]