Fighting strokes with Jeremy Vine on BBC2 radio

Jeremy Vine BBC radio 2  – listen again?

by Beating Locked in Syndrome – A True Story. on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 8:17am
He’s tall isnt he?
His no 1 fan!!!

From 12.30-1pm 

Enjoy and massive thanks for all your kind words, i am responding to some this week.

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Carers really do Care!

Maybe I’m grasping at straws out of pure desperation here. I have no carer. Oh, I have friends and family, I am not alone in the world so to speak, though I do feel it. But I do not have anyone who is close to me that tries to understand and support and be there. The one friend I have who would if she could, can’t because she suffers PTSD as well. Going thru divorce, so have no spouse. So what am I getting at?

10p diabetes drug could treat breast cancer patients

10p diabetes drug could treat breast cancer patients

A 10p-a-day diabetes drug could be used to treat breast cancer sufferers, it is claimed.

 
 
Health Correspondent 7:00AM BST 15 Apr 2011 Scientists have developed a new test that identifies patients who could benefit from the cheap treatment.

They found that the people whose cancer cells “fed” off high-energy compounds were more likely to see their tumours spread or to die.

This meant they could be helped by being given the diabetes drug, metformin, which stops the “fuel supply” for aggressive cancer cells.