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A young mother left partly paralysed by a stroke can talk again thanks to a new clot-busting drug.
Clot-busting drug helps stroke mother speak again
Sophie Goodchild, Health and Social Affairs Correspondent
A young mother left partly paralysed by a stroke can talk again thanks to a new clot-busting drug.
Sally Hockley, 35, lost the use of her right arm and her ability to speak. Her face was also left paralysed.
But doctors at University College London Hospital saved her from permanent brain damage by using drugs which seek and destroy artery blockages which cut off the supply of blood to the brain.
The first time the voluntary sector has responsibility for an area’s entire palliative services
Palliative care outsourced to voluntary sector at two trusts
The wholesale transfer of end-of-life care to charities at two health trusts puts them at the vanguard of the government’s NHS reform plans
Two young men walking to raise money for young carers
Duo show they care for Carers
Matthew, left, and Alistair.Picture: Derek Pelling 180711p07. To buy call 01296 619700
TWO former Lord Williams’s pupils are taking on a 200 mile coast-to-coast challenge to give something back to the school.
Alistair Box and Matthew Randall, both from Thame, are looking to raise money for the Lord Willaims’s Young Carers – a group set up to aid children and young adults who support ill or disabled members of their family.
