Bend, stretch, get physical

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Conductive education, normally used to teach children with cerebral palsy to walk, is being adapted to help adults with Parkinson's disease. The Birmingham Institute for Conductive Education in England now has 24 places for Parkinson's patients who have up to nine hours therapy per week paid for by charity. The exercises improve their mobility and enable them to be more independent. At the Peto Institute in Hungary, which developed conductive education, multiple sclerosis sufferers and victims of strokes and accidents are also receiving conductive education.

Care and treatment, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson disease

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Why cousins can be just too close

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Researchers in Birmingham, England, where the second-largest Pakistani community in the country resides, found 15-16 in every 1,000 infants of Pakistani origin had lethal malformations. This is over twice the usual rate. A genetic recessive disorder caused about half of these. The parents of all these were cousins. UK couples who are cousins have a one in 20 chance of disability in their children, but Pakistanis have a 10% risk, probably because of the long tradition of intermarrying.

Health aspects, Pakistan, Genetic disorders, Intermarriage, Pakistanis

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