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Carer helped by support programme
Burnham carer helped by support programme
11:40am Friday 25th March 2011
A BURNHAM carer whose husband, son and daughter suffer the same crippling disease has taken advantage of a vital support programme.
Sylvie Richards has looked after her husband, 43-year-old John, for the last 20 years as he suffers from Huntington’s Disease.
To make matters worse for Sylvie, both her son and daughter have also been diagnosed with the devastating illness, and her son, who was diagnosed 12 years ago, now lives full time in a care home.
Skin Cancer Breakthrough
Cancer Breakthrough After Tadpole Tests
Thomas Moore, health correspondent
A drug discovered with the help of tadpoles could prevent the spread of the deadliest form of skin cancer.
The drug leflunomide is already used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
But after tests on tadpoles scientists have concluded it could be a powerful treatment for malignant melanoma.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia used tadpoles because of an evolutionary link between the pattern of dark spots on their skin and the way melanoma cancer cells spread around the body in humans.
They injected 3,000 compounds into frog embryos and discovered that leflunomide dramatically changed the way the pigment pattern developed on the tadpoles.
RICKY GERVAIS: IT’S CRUEL TO AXE NETHERWOOD DAY CENTRE
Celebrities sign up for battle to save Alzheimer’s day centre
Published: 24th March, 2011
EXCLUSIVE by TOM FOOT
SEVEN-TIMES Bafta winner Ricky Gervais has told the New Journal he thinks Town Hall chiefs are “cruel” for closing a day centre for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The man who made The Office called for the Netherwood Day Centre in West Hampstead to be spared. It has lost out in spending cuts ordered by Camden Council.
