Disability news round up: schizophrenia, thalidomide, Jimmy Savile
One hundred years after the term schizophrenia was adopted, the charity Rethink Mental Illness has launched an inquiry into how the condition might be treated more effectively.
The chair of the inquiry, Professor Robin Murray, claimed during an that schizophrenia "costs the health service more than cancer or cardiac disease."
While ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ science correspondent Tom Feilden and took stock of a century of schizophrenia.
Writing on the subject for The Guardian's Comment is free blog, Rachel Whitehead examined
Elsewhere in the news:
Vulnerable adults: 96,000 alleged abuse cases reported (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News)
(The Guardian)
What's happened to Thalidomide babies? (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News)
(³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News)
Warning over legal aid cuts for disabled people (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News)
Mark Pollock faces his biggest challenge yet (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News)
How the late Sir Jimmy Savile fixed it for a Belfast woman to watch Neighbours with subtitles (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News)
(The Guardian)
(The Guardian)
(The Guardian)
(The Telegraph)
(Mail Online)
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(Mirror.co.uk)
(Ice News)
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