Disability Talk

Former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has claimed there is now a ‘full-blown’ mental health emergency’ in Scotland. This follows after the ‘Cottage Family Centre’ in Kirkaldy announced it is to hire its own mental health …

NHS chiefs have said that blood pressure testing must become more routine if we are to prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes. This could mean testing taking place at work and at supermarket checkouts. …

Researchers are suggesting that a desk job can almost double the risk of a premature death. People who sat for long periods were up to twice as likely to die over the next four years, …

Lorraine Kelly, in her SUN column, wrote about how she felt it was wrong that Katie Price was even thinking about hiring a prostitute for her son Harvey. But she agreed that being disabled shouldn’t …

It is possible that a simple eye test could detect the early signs of dementia. US researchers have found that that the thinning of the outer retina indicates frontotemporal dementia which mainly effects the front …

Prescriptions of strong painkillers in England has doubled over the past 15 years increasing fears of addiction. One in Twenty people were prescribed opioid painkillers, such as codeine and tramadol, in 2015 – twice the …

The June 8th 2017 General Election produced an election upset and a ‘hung parliament’. And it was generally felt that the Tories ‘lost’ a huge amount of support because of the many unpopular policies contained in …

In a funding row with the Government hundreds of GP surgeries have threatened to shut their doors to new patients. This means that people who move house could be left without a doctor. A British …

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said that doctors were making too many prescribing mistakes, and urged the NHS to realise that the wrong dose or the wrong drug was a leading cause of needless …