A school is investigating after a disabled 14-year-old pupil claimed she was called a "cripple" by a teacher. Lynne Wild is making a formal complaint about the comment which was aimed at her daughter Amy at Reddish Vale Technology College, Stockport.
Many people with osteoarthritis think that nothing can be done to relieve their painful joints, but self-management can play a major part, a national charity is advising.
As of the 1st January 2007, the following people have taken office to lead LDDA (Liberal Democrat Disability Association) in the new year.
UK scientists have discovered a new gene linked to breast cancer. Women with a damaged copy of the gene called PALB2 have twice the risk of breast cancer, the Institute of Cancer Research scientists found. They estimate that faulty PALB2 causes about 100 cases of breast cancer in the UK each year. Two damaged copies of the gene also appears to cause a serious blood disorder in children, they report in Nature Genetics.
Up to a million children are missing out in the classroom because they find it hard to distinguish speech against background noise, a charity has warned. Some 500 of the 2,000 children aged 10 to 14 who took a telephone hearing check had the impairment, the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) said. The problem is due to the brain's inability to pick out speech against background noise and corrects with age.
Scientists have discovered the cause of a fatal form of brittle bone disease. All forms of the condition, also called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, weaken bones causing frequent fractures. But US National Institutes of Health researchers found a genetic defect in a protein which helps produce collagen causes a fatal form of the disease.
