Brain 'can beat early blindness'
The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work suggests.
17 Feb 2007
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Bid to protect disabled motorists
A Shropshire MP campaigning to make sure disabled parking bays are not misused is calling for private wheel-clampers to be better regulated. Telford MP David Wright is highlighting the issue in the House of Commons.
7 Feb 2007
NHS to reconsider eye drug ruling
An NHS trust which refused to fund a drug for a former Halifax MP who is losing her sight has announced it will review its decision. Alice Mahon, 69, threatened to take Calderdale Primary Care Trust (PCT) to the High Court over its refusal to fund a drug which could help her condition. She is nearly blind in one eye due to wet age-related macular degeneration.
31 Jan 2007
Ex-MP battles NHS over eye drug
A former Halifax MP says she may go to the High Court to force the NHS to provide a drug which she says could help her failing sight. Alice Mahon, 69, lost most of the sight in one eye due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and expects to lose it in the other.
30 Jan 2007
Councils 'failing disabled young'
Thousands of severely disabled young people are being let down by local authorities who fail to plan care for them as adults, a report has said. The Commission for Social Care Inspection is calling for urgent action to ensure disabled children continue to get the help they need into adulthood.
30 Jan 2007
NHS charging outdated and unfair - Lamb
Commenting on a statement by the Association of Directors of Public Health that NHS patients should contribute towards the cost of some routine operations, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb MP said:
29 Jan 2007