Clare Allan complains that the "logic" of no-smoking policies in mental-health settings escapes her (The unfair smoking ban will mean fuming on the wards, February 7). We'd like to help. Second-hand smoke is dangerous.
Cell transplants have successfully restored vision to mice which had lost their sight, leading to hopes people could benefit in the same way. UK scientists treated animals which had eye damage similar to that seen in many human eye diseases.
Deaf people could soon be using video mobiles to chat with their friends using sign language.
The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work suggests.
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.
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.
