Category Archives: Carers
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.
New test to identify which patients should take statins
Thousands of patients could be needlessly taking statins even though they are at low risk of suffering heart attacks or stroke, research suggests.
Scientists say they have found a much better way to work out which people are in danger of developing heart problems.
Half of the middle-aged adults they studied were found to have no coronary artery calcium, and only a handful of them went on to suffer a heart attack or a stroke.
They say the findings have “important public health implications” and could mean large cost savings if the cholesterol-lowering drugs are prescribed only for those whose health would genuinely be improved by taking them.
More people are facing long waits for NHS treatment
NHS patients ‘face longer waits’
Source : Press Association
Published on 19 August 2011 10:00 AM
More people are facing long waits for NHS treatment, with hundreds enduring delays of more than a year according to fresh figures.
Some 11,857 people in England had been waiting more than six months for treatment in June, a rise of 61% compared with last year.
Within this figure, 718 people had been waiting more than 12 months to begin treatment, an increase from 430 in June 2010.
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