Tag Archives: Norfolk

The Life Story Book project for Alzheimer’s sufferers

Book project helps Alzheimer’s patients

Donna-Louise Bishop, Reporter Thursday, April 21, 2011
12:00 PM

 Life story books created for Alzheimer sufferers and their families by Laura Smith  (L) and Reema Khoury. Life story books created for Alzheimer sufferers and their families by Laura Smith (L) and Reema Khoury.

A project to help people with Alzheimer’s Disease in north Norfolk is being launched in Norwich to help them put together their life history into a book.

The Life Story Book project has been set up by the Norwich and district branch of the Alzheimer’s Society, which is based at St John Maddermarket in the city centre.

Better care for ME is a step closer in Norfolk

Better care for ME is a step closer in Norfolk

by Kim Briscoe
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
4:17 PM

Kerry Newnham, from Lowestoft, who is bed-bound with ME. Kerry Newnham, from Lowestoft, who is bed-bound with ME.

 Plans to conduct pioneering research in Norwich into a debilitating illness are a step closer – as is securing better care for Norfolk and Suffolk’s most seriously ill ME patients

 What is ME?

ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) is a serious, disabling and chronic organic (ie physical not mental) disorder. ME has been classified by the World Health Organisation as a neurological illness. Approximately 25pc of those affected will go on to develop severe ME which is an extremely debilitating illness, sometimes lasting for years, in some cases, even decades, often rendering the sufferer completely housebound, wheelchair and bed-bound and dependent upon carers for their everyday needs.

New tablet is very exciting and a double dose of good news for MS patients.

Norwich hospital in new MS pill trials

Kim Briscoe, Health correspondent

 Tuesday, April 19, 2011
6:30 AM

A Norwich hospital has been at the forefront of trials for a new pill for multiple sclerosis which has today been approved for use in the UK.

 

Fingolimod is the first oral treatment developed for the autoimmune disease.