A Scottish charity has launched a new campaign to improve the quality of life for disabled people by including them in the design of services and everyday household products from their living rooms.The Blackwood Foundation has launched the bespoken campaign to recognise disabled people as experts on independent living at a time when many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform and cuts to care services.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Knutsford council are ignoring “the needs of the ill or disabled or their exhausted and impoverished carers
Austerity begins at home: Cuts bite among Chancellor’s constituents
He said we’re all in it together – but few believed him. Now George Osborne faces anger in his back yard, as his economic ‘Plan A’ takes its toll. Paul Vallely reports
Saturday, 10 September 2011
We’ve never had so many members of the public come to a meeting, said the bewildered Conservative leader of Cheshire East County Council, Wesley Fitzgerald, at the start of its cabinet meeting this week. It was so packed that they had to move the councillors’ seating to accommodate the public.
Many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform
Social media campaign taps into expertise of disabled people
Many face increasingly significant barriers to living independently from benefits reform and cuts to care services.
By Catie Guitart 09 September 2011 14:48 BST
One in seven people in the UK suffer from chronic pain
Gene find could lead to drug for chronic back pain
A gene responsible for chronic pain has been identified, with scientists saying this could lead to drugs for treating long-lasting back pain.
Writing in the journal Science, University of Cambridge researchers removed the HCN2 gene from pain-sensitive nerves in mice.
Deleting the gene stopped any chronic pain but did not affect acute pain.
About one in seven people in the UK suffer from chronic pain, which can also include arthritis and headaches.
