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• Sugar pills relieve pain for chronic pain patients

  12-09-2018 19:35
  Someday doctors may prescribe sugar pills for certain chronic pain patients based on their brain anatomy and psychology. And the pills will reduce their pain as effectively as any powerful drug on the market, according to new research. Scientists have shown they can reliably predict which chronic pain patients will respond to a sugar placebo pill based on the patients' brain anatomy and psychological characteristics.
  
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• Labour-run areas suffer Tory cuts the most. It’s an ignored national scandal | Owen Jones

  12-09-2018 19:31
  The poorest fifth of local authorities can’t raise the funds more affluent areas can. We need a campaign to change it“It’s morally and ethically bankrupt as a strategy.” That’s the assessment of Salford’s Labour mayor, Paul Dennett, on the decimation of local authorities: a summary that is impossible to disagree with. Since the Tory government’s imposition of austerity a decade ago, councils have lost about half of their central government funding. As su
  
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• Critical differences in clots that cause a stroke

  12-09-2018 14:12
  There are two main treatments for stroke caused by a clot in a blood vessel in the brain. Scientists have discovered that clots have different compositions and depending on where they are located in the brain, administering the clot-busting drug, Alteplase (also known as tPA), can be almost as effective as thrombectomy given sufficient time.
  
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• Children used as 'bargaining chips' in foster care disputes

  12-09-2018 13:12
  Experts warn that young people are being removed from foster families too easily as private agencies proliferateFrancine West had been a foster carer for 17 years when a council social worker knocked on her door and removed four children from her care. “I knew nothing about it and I was speechless, just totally shocked,” she says. “I had to start packing their things straight away and I’ve still got some of it that they left behind.” Related: Profit drives the UK ch
  
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• Somerset care home commemorates Indian Independence

  12-09-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at a care home in Wellington, Somerset, have been waving the flags in celebration of the 71st anniversary of independent rule in India, with traditional Indian dance, costume, food and music to mark the occasion. 
   
  Independence Day (15 August) – an annual national holiday in India commemorating the nation’s independence from the United Kingdom – is now a regular fixture on the cultural events calendar for Camelot House and Lodge. 
   
  
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• Belong Wigan appoints Experience Coordinator

  12-09-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tanya Guy, Experience Coordinator, Belong, Wigan
  Leading care village operator, Belong, has appointed Tanya Guy as experience coordinator for its state-of-the-art village in Wigan, with responsibility for the development and implementation of a programme of activities suitable for customers of varying ages and abilities within the village and local community.
   
  Educated at St Peter’s High School in Orrell, Tanya later gained NVQ Level 3 in Business and Administration at Wigan and Leig
  
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• 31 year old living with dementia concentrates on creating happy memories for his family

  12-09-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Bradbury, from Nottingham, was diagnosed with dementia last year aged just 30. Daniel has a rare genetic form of Alzheimer’s inherited from his father who passed away from the condition aged just 36.
  Daniel Bradbury, who hit the headlines early this year after being diagnosed with dementia aged just 30, has wed his partner of 12 years, Jordan, surrounded by close friends and family – including their two year old twins, Lola and Jasper.
   
  The couple married on Saturday 11
  
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• Almost all cuts to social care in England are in the poorest areas

  12-09-2018 08:00
  Study finds biggest cuts to care for families, children and the homeless are in the most economically deprived areasNearly all the austerity-era funding cuts to services supporting poor families have fallen in the most economically-deprived areas of England, potentially trapping them in a “downward spiral” of poverty, according to new research.Council areas in the north and Midlands, together with a handful of local authorities in London, have shouldered 97% of the reductions in town
  
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