GAIN News

The UK Government has today (Tuesday 18th March) published a Green Paper called ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper.’ This is a consultation paper that lays out the Governments plans around a number of key benefits and...

This is our fourth weekly blog about CIDP, a rare Inflammatory Neuropathy and autoimmune condition impacting around 600 new people in the UK each year. In previous posts we have looked at diagnosis and symptoms. This week we are looking at the treatments available for...

In this ongoing series of blogs about CIDP, we have already looked at what CIDP is, and CIDP symptoms. Over the next few weeks we will be looking at treatment, living with CIDP, and the impact of CIDP. However, this week we are looking at what is involved in...

Last time we gave you an overall idea of what Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) is. Over the next few weeks we will dig a bit deeper, looking at diagnosis, treatment, and living with CIDP. But this week, let’s look at the symptoms of CIDP.  CIDP...

What is Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)?  Over the last few months we have written a lot about GBS, but that isn’t the only Inflammatory Neuropathy that we care about. So, lets talk about Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating...

The way in which Immunoglobulin (or Ig for short) is purchased and given out in England is changing, and we wanted to make sure that you were aware of what is going on. This doesn’t impact you if you live in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, or the Republic of...