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Mark Steel: Time to inflict pain on the terminally ill
"It's like a minicab firm that always takes you in the wrong direction, but you still have to pay them, then they charge you again to bring you back where you started. And to complete the analogy, on the way home they run someone over and shout: "If you can stroke a cat there's nothing wrong with you", as the victim is carried into the ambulance. "
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Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES: Stop Torture in Health Care: Treat the Pain
"According to an increasingly vocal assembly of international health and human rights organizations, disparities in access to pain care worldwide are staggering. Instead of healthcare settings being places where human rights are preserved, they often are institutions where rights are abused and pain is mistreated or untreated to the point of being torture."
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The Daily Mail’s List Of Things That Give You Cancer: From A To Z
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"I believe that ministers and SPADS have been feeding selected information to the press to create a national view that is biased against sick and disabled people that claim benefits, and the press have been only too happy to amplify this."
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Genetic Abnormality Linked to Fibromyalgia Subgroup
"New research published in the journal Rheumatology International suggests a link between a genetic abnormality and a subgroup of fibromyalgia that includes a higher body-mass index (BMI) and inflammatory markers. The abnormality may be what predisposes some people to fibromyalgia and other similar disorders, according to the study."
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Government’s spin war against disabled continues
"The Coalition’s efforts to hang out the disabled to dry are going splendidly. "
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Express uses distorted statistics to smear disabled benefit claimants
"The Daily Express has published yet another slavering and distorted attack on benefit claimants, the day after the Work and Pensions Select Committee issued a forthright attack on misleading tabloid coverage. "
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The verdict after the first few months of Brighton and Hove's Green council.
"I know some comrades have been critical of the Green Party down in Brighton and Hove since they took control of the council. However Green Party activist Steven Wood has posted his verdict after the first few months of Brighton and Hove's Green council. He writes:"
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This Is My Blog: Repeat - To be too ill to fight is not "faking".
Once you leave ESA, you're not monitored. We don't know how many of these people have got jobs, have died, have killed themselves, have left the country... no one cares. The Express just goes ahead and calls them all "fakers".
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Links of the day 07/28/2011
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