The only wheelchair-user to secure accreditation as a nightclub bouncer is fighting "discriminatory" new rules that have led to the loss of his licence, just as he is being recognised for three decades of community service.
A four-year-old boy must be taken from his parents because they cannot teach him the difference between right and wrong, a judge said today.
People with rheumatoid and early inflammatory arthritis are being let down by the health service, a new clinical audit has shown.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised for apparently censoring a charity that tried to draw attention to a Scottish government scheme that makes Scotland's public services more accessible to users of British Sign Language (BSL).
Studying the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that share our body space could lead to a preventative treatment for immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. It's long been suggested that the bacteria which live in our gut, mouth and elsewhere on our bodies may affect our immune system and lead to the development of certain diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis. But exactly how changes to these bacteria, collectively called the "microbiome", cause disease remains to be discovered. The research, which we awarded £2 million to, aims to unlock the link between gut bacteria and the development of immune diseases. This programme award brings together an international team of researchers, led by the University of Oxford, with partners from Birmingham and University College London, as well as collaborators in the US at Harvard University, New York University and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. It should shed light on the role of the gut microbiome in early arthritis, established rheumatoid arthritis, a
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