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He had struggled for 18 months with a degenerative back condition that had left him with mobility issues and constant pain, requiring strong painkillers.

Another woman tells the BBC that had she been able to afford timely appointments, her multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease, would have been identified, and slowed, quicker.

The degenerative brain disease is linked to repeated blows to the head and can only be diagnosed definitively after death.

The Times reports that sick and disabled benefit claimants will face more frequent reassessments under the reforms, but that people with "permanent or degenerative conditions" may never have to be reassessed.

Exposure to radiation at these levels has been associated with an elevated risk for heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative disorders that affect the eyes.