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If you are a carer of someone with dementia!

Sleep drug could help dementia

Doctors are leading a new study into a drug associated with sleep which could improve the quality of life for people with dementia.

8:00AM BST 27 Mar 2011

Glasgow-based medical research company CPS Research is heading a clinical trial using a drug containing the sleep hormone melatonin, which it is hoped will reduce the symptoms associated with the illness.

Did you as a home carer get a flu vaccination?

Millions at risk of flu complications went unvaccinated in England

Chief medical officer for England demands big increase in take-up for 2011-12 ‘flu season’, warning health authorities to order enough supplies now

  • James Meikle
  • guardian.co.uk,
  •  Sunday 27 March 2011 16.43 BST
  • Flu vaccine
    The chief medical officer for England has demanded a big increase in take-up for the 2011-12 ‘flu season’. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

    More than five million people potentially at risk of health complications from flu went unvaccinated in England over the winter. Hundreds of thousands of frontline health workers also had no jab, leaving them open to infecting vulnerable patients.

    Do you have difficulties being a carer and getting a dentist?

    It would be downright shocking for most to realize that the British are nefarious for having particularly bad teeth. Even though the living conditions in the country are contemporary, the dental care facility is not even anywhere close to a corresponding status.