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Norfolk MP’s wife, Samantha Cameron, and Joanna Lumley celebrate charity’s achievement
Host Samantha Cameron, Co-founders Victoria Bacon and Sarah Hope, and Patron Joanna Lumley
By ADAM GRETTON Thursday, August 2, 2012
3:59 PM
A fledgling charity, established by the wife of a Norfolk MP and her twin sister, has celebrated a milestone with a Downing Street reception, hosted by Samantha Cameron.
Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope was established by sisters Victoria Bacon and Sarah Hope last year to help young amputees across the world, in memory of their mother, Elizabeth Panton, who was killed by an out of control bus in London five years ago.
The same crash also injured Mrs Hope and her two-year-old daughter, Pollyanna, who lost a leg, which spurred the sisters on to set up a charity to help amputees in the developing world.
Chronic fatigue syndrome: Brain training is most cost-effective treatment
Exercise and behavioural therapies are the most cost-effective and successful ways to treat Chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME, an analysis shows.
A study of 640 patients showed these treatments had the potential to save the economy millions of pounds if they were widely adopted.
The findings were published in the journal PLoS ONE.
However, another treatment favoured by patients’ groups was shown to offer little value.
Nobody knows what causes the condition, yet a quarter of a million people in the UK are thought to have it.
David Cameron promises Olympic Games health ‘legacy’
David Cameron is to announce the setting-up of a £10m science research centre on the site of the Olympic drug-testing laboratories.
The “phenome” facility will allow better understanding of physical characteristics such as hair and eye colour, as well as diseases including dementia and diabetes.
The prime minister will say the UK can “lead the world” in the research field.
He will address 500 leading figures from the global health industry.
