Monthly Archives: August 2012
Chronic fatigue syndrome: Brain training is most cost-effective treatment
Exercise and behavioural therapies are the most cost-effective and successful ways to treat Chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME, an analysis shows.
A study of 640 patients showed these treatments had the potential to save the economy millions of pounds if they were widely adopted.
The findings were published in the journal PLoS ONE.
However, another treatment favoured by patients’ groups was shown to offer little value.
Nobody knows what causes the condition, yet a quarter of a million people in the UK are thought to have it.
David Cameron promises Olympic Games health ‘legacy’
David Cameron is to announce the setting-up of a £10m science research centre on the site of the Olympic drug-testing laboratories.
The “phenome” facility will allow better understanding of physical characteristics such as hair and eye colour, as well as diseases including dementia and diabetes.
The prime minister will say the UK can “lead the world” in the research field.
He will address 500 leading figures from the global health industry.
Taxi driver fined for refusing guide dog
A taxi driver who refused to carry a blind woman because of her guide dog has been hit with a court bill for more than £1,500.
Matloob Hussain had travelled to pick up Kelly Ann Roberts from her home in Walsall Wood as she was due to attend the Manor Hospital with her mother.
But the driver refused to accept black Labrador cross Roxy in the cab and allegedly claimed Mrs Roberts was not blind as she was blinking. Hussain, of Essex Street, Walsall, denied making the statement.
He also insisted he did not know it was a guide dog.
