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Disability news round up: schizophrenia, thalidomide, Jimmy Savile

Dan Slipper Dan Slipper | 10:40 UK time, Thursday, 3 November 2011

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 Â鶹Éç 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 (Â鶹Éç News)

(The Guardian)

What's happened to Thalidomide babies? (Â鶹Éç News)

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Warning over legal aid cuts for disabled people (Â鶹Éç News)

Mark Pollock faces his biggest challenge yet (Â鶹Éç News)

How the late Sir Jimmy Savile fixed it for a Belfast woman to watch Neighbours with subtitles (Â鶹Éç News)

(The Guardian)

(The Guardian)

(The Guardian)

(The Telegraph)

(Mail Online)

(Mail Online)

(Mirror.co.uk)

(Ice News)

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