Monthly Archives: September 2011
Diabetes Raises the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: Study
September 20, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
Diabetes does not just take its toll on the heart, a new study in Japan has found. It dramatically increases the risks of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia in later life.
Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan found that even when other risk factors of dementia such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking were taken into the account; the risks of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s from diabetes was still extremely high.
Plans to improve the earnings caps for carers in Guernsey
Benefit changes welcomed by disability groups
By Luke Richardson
Wigwam Support Group adviser Jenny Hooper, left, and Guernsey Disability Alliance chairwoman Shelaine Green have welcomed Social Security plans to improve the grants system for carers. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1180874)
LIFTING the earnings cap for people claiming a carer’s allowance would make their work seem less devalued, disability groups have said.
Ella-Grace Honeyman gets ready to head out to New York for her latest life-saving operation
Hopes high that Ella-Grace is set for her final surgery
By VICTORIA LEGGETT
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30 AM
Little Ella-Grace Honeyman flew to New York once again yesterday with hopes high it will be the last time the youngster faces life-threatening brain surgery.
The four-year-old, from Hevingham, near Aylsham, suffers from the rare condition vein of Galen malformation. Yesterday she headed to America for a seventh operation to seal leaking blood vessels in her brain.
