Author Archives: Maureen
Teen carer launches petition for more help
AN 18-year-old carer who struggled through her A-levels has launched a campaign for more support for other teenagers facing the same problem.
By Ewan Foskett Sunday, August 21, 2011
4.14 PM
A day in Kirstie’s life
Most mornings I wake up around 7am, then I go downstairs and clean up the living and the kitchen from the day before.
By this time it’s about 8am and time to make my mum’s breakfast.
After I have taken that up to her I do the washing up.
There are always things that need to be done in between making the breakfast and preparing lunch.
Driving and diabetes
A big concern for people with diabetes
20 August 2011
Earlier this year the transport minister, Mike Penning MP, announced he intended to bring forward the implementation of an EC Directive for people with diabetes to October 2011.
This would remove the blanket ban for people with diabetes who treat their condition with insulin and allow them to apply for a Group 2 licence, providing they meet strict medical criteria, and can demonstrate they have adequate control of the condition by regular blood glucose monitoring. People with Group 2 vehicle licences who are treated with insulin will also have to undergo an annual independent medical assessment.
Cells ‘resistant to stroke damage’
Source : Press Association
Published on 18 August 2011 12:00 PM
Scientists have identified nerve cells in people’s brains that do not get damaged during a stroke and believe they could hold the key to protecting other cells that are starved of oxygen in such an event.
Researchers at the University of Bristol found that some nerve cells in the brain are immune to damage following the drop in blood supply and nutrients that occurs during a stroke when blood vessels in the head rupture.
