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.
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Heart attack test ‘detects more’
The test will detect smaller amounts of heart damageA more sensitive blood test could improve the diagnosis of heart attacks in patients who have minor damage.
Scientists from Edinburgh University said it could measure damage to heart muscles at a level four times deeper than the standard blood test.
They said this increased the number of patients diagnosed with a heart attack by a third.
Researchers said diagnosis halved the risk of patients dying of a heart attack within a year.
