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NICE Updates Guidance On The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Lung Cancer
NICE Updates Guidance On The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Lung Cancer
Main Category: Lung Cancer
Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology
Article Date: 27 Apr 2011 – 5:00 PDT
NICE has today published an update to its clinical guideline on diagnosing and treating lung cancer. The new recommendations replace those previously published in 2005.
NICE clinical guidelines are updated regularly so that recommendations take into account any important new information that has come to light since publication of the original recommendations. Since NICE published guidance on this condition in February 2005, new evidence has emerged about how to diagnose and treat lung cancer and therefore the guideline has been updated.
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.
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
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.
National Dog Walk for the Carers Association
National Dog Walk for the Carers Association
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Following the success of Irelands first National Dog Walk, which raised €40,000 for family carers last year, Petmania and The Carers Association is again asking dog owners and their dogs to join them on Easter Monday, April 25th 2011, for this, the second annual event. The National Dog Walk will see five kilometre walks starting from 13 of Petmanias stores nationwide to raise vital funds for family carers.
