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Disability Benefits: Why the UK Has to Reinvent the Workplace

Jason Reed | Posted 08.03.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Welfare, Benefits, Welfare Reform, David Cameron, Employment, Welfare State, Jobs, Multiple Sclerosis, m.e, UK Health, M.E Association, M.S, Atos, Unemployment, UK Conservative Party, Fibromyalgia, UK Politics News
Jason Reed

The misnomer that we even have a benefit culture with disabled people ready to exploit and sit comfortably needs quashing. Make no mistake, the benefit system does not hand out much money at all to the individual, and it's a system full of stigma.

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: No Virus Link Study Shows

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Health News, Cfs, Me, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Virus, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News

Viruses have nothing to do with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), despite earlier evidence of a link, a study has shown. The new findings deepen the ...

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Never Feel Refreshed By Sleep? How To Spot Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The Huffington Post UK | Kyrsty Hazell | Posted 03.08.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: UK News, Cognitive Therapy, Me, Tiredness, Health News, Chronic Fatigue, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Slideexpand, Chronic Illness, Fatigue, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Nhs, UK Lifestyle News

If you sleep for eight hours a night, yet never feel rested and are constantly tired, irritable and unmotivated, these could be signs of chronic fatig...

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Open Letter to Winston Matthews - Prisoner Number A8167CK

Jason Reed | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Pain, UK, Bmj, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Liberal Democrats for Drug Policy Reform, Sir Ian Gilmore, Poll, Cannabis, Government, Aids, Therapeutic Cannabis, Crohn's Disease, Cancer, Justice, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Kofi Annan, Revision Drug Policy Network, Science, m.e, Leap, M.S, LEAP UK, Parkinson's, Transform, Drug-Equality-Alliance, Crohn's, Prison, Release, Jason Reed, Sir Richard Branson, Winston Matthews, Medicinal Cannabis, UK Lifestyle News
Jason Reed

Dear Winston Matthews, Words simply cannot express how I felt when I learned of your incarceration.

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Benefits: In Defence of the Fake Disabled

Jason Reed | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Welfare, Disabled, The Sun, Benefits, Welfare State, Myalgic, m.e, Dla, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, James Delingpole, Brendan O'neill, Nicky Clarke, Work, Rod Liddle, Jason Reed, Disability, Fibromyalgia, Huffington Post, Telegraph, UK Politics News
Jason Reed

It's no coincidence that the word 'benefit' is now a dirty word, and by proxy, it now defines the disabled. If you're on benefits, then you are a lowlife by default.

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Rod Liddle and ME

Jason Reed | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Fibro, Disabled, The Sun, Benefits, Kay Gilderdale, Esther Rantzen, Cfs, Lynn Gilderdale, m.e, M.E Association, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Illness, Rod Liddle, Fibromyalgia, Huffington Post, UK Media, UK News
Jason Reed

M.E/Fibro sufferers tend to be dedicated individuals who have pushed themselves to the limits of human endurance. Athletes, academics, and life's overachievers. And yet, we're labelled as lazy. So, the point is, with tongue firmly in cheek - if you haven't got M.E/Firbo, then you've simply not tried hard enough.

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Is Yoga Bad For You?

Anna Chapman | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Iyengar-Yoga, Awareness, Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar, Back, Health, Bikram Yoga, Me, Cancer, Alignment, Bikram, New York Times, UK Health, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News
Anna Chapman

A recent New York Times article called How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body has caused quite a stir in the yoga community pointing out all the ways that yoga can injure and saying that most people shouldn't do it. But before you roll up your mat and head for the gentler delights of pilates, read this.

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A 21st Century Band, [Me], Launch FanDist Platform

Alex Thomson | Posted 15.02.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Lizard King, Kasabian, Australia, [Me], Martin Heath, Me Band, Panic at the Disco, Fandist, UK Tech, UK Entertainment, UK Tech News
Alex Thomson

Seeing as today's youth exist almost exclusively in a virtual, social media world, it was only a matter of time before a truly 21st century band would step forward to define the new era and utilise available technology, abandoning a traditional approach.

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Unidentified Illness Causing Children To Miss School Is 'Potentially Devastating'

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 13.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Chronic Fatigue, UK Students, UK News, UK Health, Me, UK Schools, UK Universities & Education News

Chronic fatigue syndrome is going unidentified in hundreds of children, leading them to miss school, a new report claims. A study published in the ...

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Schoolgirl Plunged Into 'Waking Coma' After Cervical Cancer Jab

PA | Posted 15.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Cervical Cancer Vaccine, UK News, Children, Mono, Pa, Vaccination, m.e, Waking Coma, Cervical Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Sleep Disorder, UK News

The parents of a schoolgirl claim their daughter has been left in a "waking coma" after suffering suspected side effects from a cervical cancer jab. ...

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