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• Heart surgery: To have or not to have...your left atrial appendage closed

  22-05-2018 17:46
  Each year in the US, more than 300,000 people have heart surgery. To reduce risk of stroke for their patients, surgeons often will close the left atrial appendage, which is a small sac in the left side of the heart where many blood clots form, during these surgeries. Adding this procedure is likely the right choice for certain patients but not all.
  
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• Clare in the community: facing the music

  22-05-2018 16:00
  Megan’s orchestral activities add another string to her bow Continue reading...
  
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• I tried to track down all the friends I grew up with in care – here’s what I found

  22-05-2018 15:42
  Fifteen years after leaving the care system, almost everyone I knew then was reluctant to talk. Why had so many of them struggled or fallen off the map?When Lucy and I meet in the food court at the Arndale Centre in Manchester, it is the first time I have seen her for 15 years. But we were close growing up. We both lived in a children’s home in Chadderton, near Oldham, where I described her to everyone as my sister. The last time I saw her, she was being taken to a different care unit afte
  
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• Link between tuberculosis and Parkinson's disease discovered

  22-05-2018 14:21
  The mechanism our immune cells use to clear bacterial infections like tuberculosis (TB) might also be implicated in Parkinson's disease, according to a new study. The findings provide a possible explanation of the cause of Parkinson's disease and suggest that drugs designed to treat Parkinson's might work for TB too.
  
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• I may be a nobody but I can still offer a helping hand to those in need | Stewart Dakers

  22-05-2018 14:00
  I have lived unnoticed. I have fought no wars, delivered no speeches, mounted no podiums and not hit a century. Now I can make amendsCan’t complain, saw the world, saw action, know what I mean?” I’m at the post-bingo cafe with Tom, who is indulging one of his lengthy reminiscences. To be fair, he has some fairly remarkable memories to share – national service in the Malayan jungle, a season at county level cricket, a brief spell inside for affray, two wives, a director in
  
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• Why the south Wales town that forged the NHS now points to its future

  22-05-2018 11:40
  Tredegar, the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, offers a microcosm of the health and social care problems facing the nationGrowing up in Tredegar in the 1960s, Jackie Rowlands vividly remembers the long benches in the surgery waiting room. Patients would move along the bench until it was their turn to see the doctor: “They were absolutely shining, so people just slid along because they were polished all the time. When you were a child, they were wonderful. You might be at the surgery at nine o&
  
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• Andover care home resident celebrates 100th birthday

  22-05-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mountwood care home in Andover celebrated the 100th birthday of one of its residents with a special event for her family and friends.
  Vicky Aldridge was joined by her daughter Gill McGarry, who made the trip from Cornwall to see her mother on the big day, and her younger sister Rene, 97. Vicky has two children, three grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and six great, great grandchildren. She also has two other siblings, Grace, 96 and Ted, 90. Vicky married Norman Aldridge when she was 2
  
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• How we're helping vulnerable women to keep their children out of care | Stuart Smith

  22-05-2018 10:01
  Calderdale council’s Positive Choices scheme shows mothers trapped in a painful cycle how to become successful parents In social care we know that women who have a child taken into care often face this predicament more than once, sometimes three or four times. We also know that on many occasions, these women were in care themselves as children. Approximately one in four birth mothers in family court proceedings will reappear with a subsequent child, and recent research suggests 58% of thes
  
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• Stockport care home gets extension go ahead

  22-05-2018 09:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Borough Care, the largest not for profit provider of care for older people in Stockport, has been given the go ahead to extend one of its homes.  Planning permission has been granted for a new wing to be added to Bruce Lodge in Offerton, Stockport. The new wing will be based on the ‘household model’. The two storey extension will provide 18 new bedrooms and a social dining space. The new bedrooms will be modern, spacious and have en-suite facilities. Bruce Lodge currently p
  
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• Northumberland home care organisation appoints in-house trainer

  22-05-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Natalie Prerera
  A Northumberland homecare organisation has appointed an in-house trainer to support its expansion plans. 
  Helping Hands Community Care, which provides social and specialist care to hundreds of people across Northumberland, has welcomed Natalie Perera to its Cramlington branch. 
  Before joining the organisation, Natalie worked in a range of job roles, including senior lead carer, a regional tutor/assessor for a health and social care provider and most recently, a training
  
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• There are ways out of our care crisis, if only May had the guts to pick one | Polly Toynbee

  22-05-2018 06:59
  With care homes closing despite soaring need, the question of how to pay for social care becomes ever more pressingThe stagnation of this stymied government is remarkable. A new government’s first year is prime time for hyperactivity but, to use the prime minister’s famous phrase: “Nothing has changed.” Brexit sucks out the air – though even that makes no progress.Social care offers the best illustration of paralysis, and you can see why: this toxic topic cost There
  
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• Daily egg consumption may reduce cardiovascular disease

  22-05-2018 00:47
  People who consume an egg a day could significantly reduce their risk of cardiovascular diseases compared with eating no eggs, suggests a new study.
  
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• Link between IBD and Parkinson's might allow doctors to slow down condition

  22-05-2018 00:46
  Doctors may be able to modify or slow down the progress of the neurological condition Parkinson's disease in the future by spotting signs of it in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), suggest a new study.
  
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