Melissa (12) and Ryan Luker (14) are among the estimated 175,000 young carers in Britain. They juggle the enormous responsibility of looking after a parent and running their home whilst still going to school.
The government has missed its target to recruit 2,500 community matrons to care for people with long-term conditions such as diabetes and asthma. The highly-trained nurses' care was intended to stop patients yo-yoing between GPs and hospitals in England.
Adding antibiotics to standard drug therapy may slow down the progress of multiple sclerosis, research suggests. Patients showed fewer symptoms, and fewer signs of tissue damage when they took the antibiotic doxycycline alongside the MS drug beta interferon.
Elderly people in England are to be given cash to fund their own social care, the health secretary has said.
Commenting on reports that the Government is planning on giving elderly people grants to pay for their own care, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb MP said:
On the day that the Government has announced the level of benefits for next year, the Liberal Democrats have released figures showing that pensioners now receive less than in 1950.
