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• Underfunded and overstretched – the crisis in care for the elderly

  10-12-2016 23:21
  
  With life expectancy rising, tighter regulation and staff shortages, the care home model is unsustainable. What must be done?‘It’s like being at home,” was the verdict that one resident at West Hall, a care home in West Byfleet, relayed to inspectors. When you walk through the doors, you can see why. The first thing that strikes a visitor is its immaculate grounds and impressive architecture, which blends a beautifully converted old manor house with three eco-build residential
  
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• HEALTH NOTES: The film role that left Denise feeling blue 

  10-12-2016 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Actress Denise Welch (pictured) has revealed how she suffered a setback in her battle with depression – after making a film about mental illness. The film is loosely based on her own experiences.
  
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• Given a jolt by the pacemaker... with a heart: Ground-breaking device is able to detect emotions 

  10-12-2016 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is estimated that 70 per cent of pacemaker patients struggle to respond to emotional events, such as the joy of seeing a favourite football team score a goal (pictured).
  
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• DR ELLIE CANNON: I'm warming to cryosurgery to fix my foot 

  10-12-2016 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Morton's neuroma is a very painful and incapacitating condition that affects one of the nerves running between the toes. It tends to happen to women over 40 with a history of wearing high-heel shoes.
  
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• Shock figures show Tory plans are ‘making social care worse’

  10-12-2016 23:00
  
  Flagship scheme to keep elderly out of hospital missing targets and council tax rise ‘too small to alleviate cutbacks’The full extent of the crisis facing social care is revealed by an Observer investigation which demonstrates the government’s flagship policy to keep elderly people out of hospital is failing in most parts of the country.The findings – amid claims from senior NHS figures that “we are going backwards in many places” – come as ministers fac
  
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• Spain: Suspects in ill child charity scam spent $633,000

  10-12-2016 20:03
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A Spanish couple arrested for allegedly exploiting the rare illness of their daughter in a charity scam spent almost 600,000 euros ($633,000) of donations on a ritzy lifestyle, according to Spanish police.
  
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• Acutely ill children waiting nine hours for beds in intensive care

  10-12-2016 16:56
  
  Some paediatric units now at 115% capacity, warns doctors’ bodySeriously ill children are waiting up to nine hours for an intensive care bed to become available, while others are being transported up to 120 miles from their homes to receive the medical treatment they urgently need, senior paediatricians have revealed.In the last two weeks, at least 17 children with acute illnesses requiring intensive care have had to be transported out of their regions because of a lack of beds. Some paedi
  
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• Doctors call for ban on diesel engines in London

  10-12-2016 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A campaign led by medical professionals is calling for all diesel cars to be banned from London.
  
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• Scurvy SYMPTOMS: Dr Hilary Jones issues warning as cases of Vitamin C deficiency creep up

  10-12-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SCURVY is making a come back, Dr Hilary Jones has warned. While there are relatively few cases in the UK, experts have revealed incidences of the disease are rising. But what are the symptoms of the condition, and what causes it?
  
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• Pioneering 90-minute operation that could be a British cure for DVT

  10-12-2016 06:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 60,000 Britons a year develop DVT - a blood clot which causes dangerous swelling. Until now, there has been no real treatment. But a new treatment in the UK has shown remarkable results.
  
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• Report by Dame Louise Casey highlighted how Muslim communities remain isolated

  10-12-2016 06:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A major report highlighted how Muslim communities remain isolated even after its members have lived here for decades, because the men often marry foreign women who do not speak good English
  
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• Could blasting brain with soundwaves help reverse Parkinson’s?

  10-12-2016 06:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London are testing the therapy on 20 people with ‘essential tremor’, a brain disorder that causes uncontrollable shaking.
  
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• 4 more Zika cases, likely homegrown, found in Texas

  10-12-2016 01:16
  DALLAS (AP) — Four more cases of Zika that were likely transmitted by mosquito bites in Texas have been found in the same neighborhood where the state's first such case was discovered, state health officials said Friday.
  
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• Only 55% of cannabis dispensary staff receive formal training, report finds

  10-12-2016 00:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The peer-reviewed study comes at a pivotal time as legalization of cannabis for medical use increases across the U.S. Twenty-eight states and D.C. have laws that permit medical marijuana.
  
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