Author Archives: Maureen
Care ‘loophole’ hits family of disabled Accrington toddler
Care ‘loophole’ hits family of disabled Accrington toddler
11:36am Thursday 9th June 2011
HYNDBURN’S MP is backing the family of a disabled toddler ‘penalised’ because they have to care for him full time.
Two-year-old Finley Rosbotham’s amazing progress has recently seen him take his first steps despite having cerebral palsy and being born paralysed down one side and with part of his brain missing.
Breakthrough offers hope for heart failure
Breakthrough offers hope for heart failure
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Today, thanks to medical advances, lots of people survive a heart attack. But this means that many people are living with a damaged heart. This can lead to heart failure, which affects more than 750,000 people in the UK.
Right now there’s no way to restore the damage to heart muscle caused by a heart attack so we can’t prevent heart failure, but there is hope
Call for curb on dementia drugs
Call for curb on dementia drugs
Press Association – Thu, Jun 9, 2011
Patients with dementia who take antipsychotics should have their prescriptions reviewed within a year, campaigners have said.
They hope the action will help reduce the use of such drugs which have been shown to almost double the risk of early death when taken over a prolonged period.
