Too young for arthritis: the kids battling the 'disease of the elderly'

Arthritis is thought of as a disease of the elderly, but an estimated 15,000 children and young people in the UK suffer from it.

Now, a group of Scottish teenagers with arthritis have made a film to alert health staff to a condition which they say is often diagnosed too late.

However, specialists say they are getting better at spotting it. BBC Scotland's Emma Ailes reports.

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