Fibromyalgia awareness has come a long way. But that doesn't stop people from making insensitive comments. There's still a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about this painful illness. Patient Expert Karen Lee Richards gives 10 examples of things NOT to say to a fibromyalgia patient.
A new report recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows a downward trajectory in severe mental health issues for children between the ages of 6 and 17. On the surface, this is good news. Yet on the flip side, the study also reveals a troubling pattern of young people without access to mental health treatments from which they can truly benefit.
This year's National Dyspraxia Awareness Week will focus on the "diagnosis divide" between girls and boys.
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The National Autistic Society has published a fairly damning report saying that less than a quarter of parents surveyed are satisfied with new special educational needs system. The NAS is calling on government to completely review the system's implementation, claiming that a year on parents of children on the autism spectrum are facing exhausting and highly stressful battles to get the right support with the reforms let down by poor implementation.
Claimants getting a lifetime or indefinite award of disability living allowance (DLA)in a further 29 postcode areas are now being forced to try to claim personal independence payment (PIP) instead. Originally no transfers from DLA to PIP were planned to take place before October 2015.
