New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests. A University of Hull team concluded the drugs actively help only a small group of the most severely depressed.
Deaf and speech-impaired people are to be able to text the emergency services for help under a new initiative.
A disabled man suffered a cut to his face when he was attacked in an unprovoked street assault.
A solicitor who conned more than £1m from a disabled client has been found guilty of fraud. Thomas McGoldrick, 59, of Faulkners Lane, Mobberley, Cheshire, had denied the charges at Manchester Crown Court.
A GP has developed a way to find up to 500,000 people with potential diabetes who risk being overlooked by their doctors. Simple software can highlight those whose abnormal blood sugar tests have not yet been followed up.
Every new home built in England will have to be designed to suit an ageing population, under government plans.
