Young carers struggle without the help they urgently need, often due to fear that they may be separated from their families, a report suggests. At least 175,000 children and young people look after a parent or sibling - but charity Barnardo's says it believes that many more are going unsupported.
Cara, like many seven year olds, wants to fit in with her friends. Wearing the right clothes and following the latest trend is easy, but working around her diabetes is not. As Cara explains, every day it makes her feel like the odd one out.
Children in the UK with type 1 diabetes are being recruited to test an artificial pancreas. The device could allow users to more tightly control their blood glucose levels without the need for repeated jabs to test blood and give insulin.
Commenting on reports today that many prostate cancer sufferers are struggling to be prescribed Taxotere, a NICE approved drug, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Steve Webb MP said:
A charity for men with prostate cancer says many face a "titanic" struggle to be prescribed an approved drug. Taxotere can improve the quality of life of patients in the later stages of the cancer, and prolong their lives.
One hundred years since Alzheimer's disease was first described, scientists are still struggling to find a cure for it, a group of experts has said. There is much that can be done to dampen its effects, but the prospect of defeating the disease remains elusive, they say in the Lancet medical journal.
