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• Treating Alzheimer's with aspirin

  02-07-2018 23:09
  A low-dose aspirin regimen may represent a new avenue for reducing Alzheimer's disease pathology, according to new research in a mouse model. The study identifies a new role for one of the most widely used medications in the world.
  
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• Having hypertension during pregnancy may affect cardiovascular health for life

  02-07-2018 23:08
  Women with a history of preeclampsia or gestational hypertension in pregnancy developed chronic hypertension at a 2- to 3-fold higher rate and had 70 percent and 30 percent higher rates of type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol, respectively, than women who had normal blood pressure in pregnancy. These findings suggest that women with pregnancies complicated by high blood pressure may benefit from cardiovascular screening throughout their lives.
  
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• May needs to show courage of Attlee to fix social care, says CQC chief

  02-07-2018 22:00
  David Behan says at least £2bn is urgently needed to shore up threadbare social care systemTheresa May has been urged to show the same courage as Clement Attlee did when creating the NHS in order to fix the UK’s crumbling social care system.
  In an exclusive interview, the head of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) told the prime minister that support for older people was now so threadbare that Britain’s status as a civilised society was diminished.Related: Tory councils join dem
  
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• Unraveling genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

  02-07-2018 19:39
  The strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease may impair the brain's ability to convert its primary fuel source into usable energy, finds a study of female mice. The research suggests therapeutic strategies that promote brain energy conversion in risk gene carriers could help to reduce risk or delay onset of the disease.
  
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• Algorithm identifies hypertensive patients who will benefit from intensive treatment

  02-07-2018 19:00
  Using data from large clinical trials, researchers developed a way to predict which patients will benefit most from aggressive high blood pressure treatment.
  
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• Chronic pain remains the same or gets better after stopping opioid treatment

  02-07-2018 15:40
  Stopping long-term opioid treatment does not make chronic, non-cancer-related pain worse and, in some cases, makes it better, researchers have found.
  
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• Social work is booming worldwide – because it's proven to work | Rory Truell

  02-07-2018 14:27
  Investing in social services has a positive impact on societies. In Costa Rica, government and local communities have come together to effect change Social work is the fastest-growing profession internationally – and in many countries, statistics point towards its significant further expansion. In the US, for example, despite cuts to public administration by the Trump government, the Bureau of Labour Statistics predicts a 16% growth of the profession between 2016 and 2026.Related: Social w
  
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• Yes, let’s celebrate the NHS at 70. But it isn’t the only service keeping us healthy

  02-07-2018 10:51
  From firefighters to care assistants and housing officers, a range of public services have an eye on our wellbeing Celebration of 70 years of the NHS is rightly focusing on the doctors, nurses, therapists and myriad other workers who wear the famous logo and make such a remarkable institution tick. But let’s hear it, too, for the housing officer, the care assistant, the firefighter and all those who work with the health service to keep people well. It was acknowledged from the very foundat
  
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• Cramond Primary School pupil wins top prize in Edinburgh care home competition

  02-07-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Winner Lauren White (6)
  A budding young artist from Cramond Primary School has been crowned the winner of a local art competition run by Edinburgh’s newest care home, Cramond Residence.
   
  Six year old Lauren White’s design was chosen as the top piece of artwork out of over 400 entries from pupils of all ages. A shortlist of 48 were displayed at an exhibition at Cramond Kirk Halls last week.
   
  Lauren’s entry hugely impressed the judges, who praised her use of vibrant c
  
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• Richmond care provider celebrates 1st anniversary with a big party!

  02-07-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  In-home care provider, Caremark (Richmond-upon-Thames) hosted a special party to celebrate their first anniversary of their business and invited along clients and staff to share in the occasion.
   
  Since launching in May last year, Caremark (Richmond) has gone from strength to strength and has acquired a solid reputation within the local community as a reliable and compassionate care provider, with staff who truly love their jobs.
   
  The growing business is owned and run by two enterpris
  
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• How design is helping people with dementia find their way around

  02-07-2018 09:00
  For people with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases, just navigating around the house can be difficult and disorientating. But some pioneering approaches are offering new solutionsOne sunflower painting looks like another here, each numberless door is identical and I am hopelessly disoriented; desperate to find an exit, a shaft of light, even. I turn right, up another featureless corridor, and then left and then right again – but is this really the way I came?It’s a rel
  
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• Shared Lives goes from strength to strength in Surrey

  02-07-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A service that matches adults who need support with host Carers is continuing to go from strength to strength in Surrey.
  Shared Lives is a service provided by carefully chosen single people, couples or families who offer support and accommodation within their own households. The people they support live or stay as part of the Shared Lives Carers’ family having been carefully matched by experienced teams at Surrey Choices.
  One couple in Surrey took Kimberley, a Shared Lives customer to Disn
  
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• Robots could solve the social care crisis – but at what price? | John Harris

  02-07-2018 07:00
  It’s the next wave of automation beyond retail and financial services. Yet can artificial intelligence ever replicate altruism and empathy?Pepper is a 4ft tall approximation of a human being developed in France, and now manufactured and marketed by the Japanese-owned corporate giant SoftBank Robotics. If you went to the recent Robots exhibitions at London’s Science Museum or the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, you will be aware of what he (Pepper has been given a male p
  
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• Robo-carers might work, but they threaten our most basic human principles | John Harris

  02-07-2018 07:00
  Technology offers a way to solve the care crisis. Yet can artificial intelligence ever replicate altruism and empathy?Pepper is a 4ft tall approximation of a human being developed in France, and now manufactured and marketed by the Japanese-owned corporate giant SoftBank Robotics. If you went to the recent Robots exhibitions at London’s Science Museum or the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, you will be aware of what he (Pepper has been given a male pronoun, for some reason) ca
  
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