‘My final year at Oxford, when I felt punished for having ME’ | The Guardian | 18 October 2016
From Education Guardian, 18 October 2016 | Words by Nathalie […]
Welfare
Major breakthrough on PACE Trial | Centre for Welfare Reform | 19 August 2016
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From The Centre for Welfare Reform, 19 August 2016. In
TGI Friday! | Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 22 July 2016
This week – six studies or reviews and they’re a real mixed bag!
‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’ | Disability News Service | 9 June 2016
Professor Sir Mansel Aylward (pictured) – named as one of the co-authors of the biopsychosocial model of disability.
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 10 June 2016
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In the first item, Sophie Loup looks at a study into a drug combination that can improve outcomes in fibromyalgia.
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 27 May 2016
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From Arthritis Care and Research (Hoboken), January 2016. Gene Expression
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 6 May 2016
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 6 May 2016 Read More »
From Biofactors, published online 29 April 2016. Ubiquinol-10 [ie, Co-enzyme
‘The Misleading Research at the Heart of Disability Cuts’ | Huffington Post blog | 20 April 2016
From The Blog at the Huffington Post, 20 April 2016
‘If you think comfortable families don’t get sucked into poverty, think again’ | The Guardian | 14 April 2016
From The Guardian, 14 April 2016 (Words by Frances Ryan).
‘Misleading medical research underpins disability cuts’ | Centre for Welfare Reform | 14 April 2016
The Centre for Welfare Reform press release | 14 April
DWP ‘punishing’ low-paid full-time workers under new benefits rule | The Guardian | 14 April 2016
Helen Smith: ‘Because I was working I just didn’t understand why I was sanctioned.’
Patients, Scientists Fight Over Research-Data Access | Wall Street Journal | 7 March 2016
From the Wall Street Journal, 7 March 2016. Story by
‘Nearly 14,000 disabled people have mobility cars taken away’ | BBC News | 3 February 2016
From BBC News, 3 February 2016 (Story by Nikki Fox,
Tories defeated in Lords over plans to cut ESA by £30 a week | The Guardian | 27 January 2016
Lord Low: “…things can encourage disabled people into work but cutting their benefits is not one of them.”
Benefit cap on full-time carers for adult relatives to be scrapped | The Guardian | 26 January 2015
Charities hail major victory as it emerges that those who spend more than 35 hours a week caring will be exempt from the cap.
‘Employment and Support Allowance should not be cut – campaigners’ | BBC News + Petition | 23 January 2016
SIGN THE DISABILITY RIGHTS UK PETITION HERE From BBC News,
Disability benefits tests have doubled in cost, says National Audit Office | BBC News | 8 January 2016
From BBC News, 8 January 2016. Disability benefit assessments have
‘The debate over this mysterious disease is suddenly shifting’ | Julie Rehmeyer in ‘Slate’ | 13 November 2015
From Slate, 13 November 2015. Words by Julie Rehmeyer. Last
Disability Rights UK wins contract to teach equality to Maximus | Disability News Service | 2 October 2015
A demonstration in London at about the time that Maximus won the contact to take over the work capability assessments.
Depressed man killed himself as a direct result of DWP’s ‘fit to work’ ruling, coroner finds | Independent on Sunday | 20 September 2015
From the Independent on Sunday, 20 September 2015. Cahal Milmo