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• This online calculator can predict your stroke risk

  14-08-2020 16:16
  Doctors can predict patients' stroke risk by using an online tool that measures the severity of their metabolic syndrome, a conglomeration of conditions that includes high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels and excess body fat.
  
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• Swindon care home receives special gift from Wiltshire-based artist

  14-08-2020 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team at Kingsmead care home in Swindon has received a special gift from a local Wiltshire-based artist. The home, which is part of the Healthcare Homes (Spring) Ltd and provides residential care for up to 40 people, were recently contacted by Nellie Hearn, a former professional dancer turned professional artist.  Nellie got in touch […]
  
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• Appointment news from Brunelcare

  14-08-2020 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Clare Hall has been appointed the new Registered Operations Manager for South Gloucestershire, Bristol for Brunelcare’s domiciliary home care division.   Clare started with the charity in July and will be responsible for the day-to-day runnings of South Gloucestershire’s domiciliary home care division. Coming from a background in care and corporate banking, Clare will be […]
  
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• 'Ants crawling from wounds': horrifying scenes at coronavirus-hit aged care home in Melbourne

  14-08-2020 06:27
  
  Exclusive: Video and pictures show resident left with ants crawling over bloodied bandages on her legs as staff report dreadful conditions. Warning: contains graphic content Horrific footage of a 95-year-old woman left to languish in a Melbourne aged care facility struck by Covid-19 shows ants crawling from a wound on her leg, and the bandages around it crusted with blood.The footage and photos, described by the federal aged care minister as “heartbreaking”, were taken inside Kalyna
  
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• 'Ants crawling from wound': horrifying scenes at coronavirus-hit aged care home in Melbourne

  14-08-2020 06:20
  
  Exclusive: video and pictures show resident left with ants crawling over bloodied bandages on her legs as staff report dreadful conditionsHorrific footage of a 95-year-old woman left to languish in a Melbourne aged care facility struck by Covid-19 shows ants crawling from a wound on her leg, and the bandages around it crusted with blood.The footage and photos, described by the federal aged care minister as “heartbreaking”, were taken inside Kalyna Care, a private residential home in
  
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