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• Stroke: When the system fails for the second time

  23-03-2020 18:52
  After a stroke, there is an increased risk of suffering a second one. If areas in the left hemisphere were affected during the first attack, language is often impaired. In order to maintain this capability, the brain usually briefly drives up the counterparts on the right side. But what happens after a second attack? Medical researchers have now found an answer by using virtual lesions.
  
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• UK’s emergency coronavirus bill ‘will put vulnerable at risk’

  23-03-2020 14:17
  
  Disabled and older people could be deprived of vital care, campaigners warnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEmergency measures to tackle the coronavirus will put disabled and older people at risk, charities and human rights experts are warning.Campaigners warn that measures being introduced in the government’s coronavirus bill will temporarily remove the legal duty on councils to provide social care to all who are eligible. Continue reading...
  
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• Meallmore Chefs secure spots in NACC Care Chef of the Year Scottish regional heats

  23-03-2020 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three chefs from the care home group Meallmore have secured spots in the Scottish regional heats of the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) Care Chef of the Year Competition 2020.   Brian Gollan from Ivybank House Care Home in Polmont, Anna Koziarska from Auchtercrag House in Ellon and Paul O’Brien from St Modans Care […]
  
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