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• Covid isolation rule for care homes is ‘false imprisonment risk’

  19-05-2021 19:54
  
  Families seek to end England’s ‘unacceptable isolation’ rule and switch to personal risk assessmentsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid quarantine rules risk falsely imprisoning care home residents, campaigners for families claimed in a new move to take the Department of Health and Social Care to court.A requirement for new care home residents to self-isolate for two weeks, as well as after an overnight stay away or spell in hospital, is bein
  
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• Finally some clarity from Boris Johnson over amber list holidays | John Crace

  19-05-2021 18:24
  
  PM reverts to his familiar tropes after Labour leader’s challenge to his Covid hokey-cokeyYou couldn’t blame Keir Starmer for trying to solve the mystery of the government’s messaging on foreign travel. After all, in the last 24 hours it has changed from amber list countries being open to visits for family and friends, to then being closed to all travel, to being closed to only essential travel for business and family illness, to essential travel including foreign holidays. It&
  
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• Children in care need full records to put together a life story | Letter

  19-05-2021 18:11
  
  Jill Sheldrake of the Together Trust on the difficulties that heavily redacted care files can causeKirsty Capes offers a powerful account of the impact of receiving heavily redacted care files (‘The secret of my identity devastated me’: could official records reveal the truth about my childhood?, 15 May). Our identity and sense of belonging are tied up in the memories of our childhood, but for children in care their records are often the only thing they have to piece together their l
  
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• Novel immunotherapy boosts long-term stroke recovery in mice

  19-05-2021 18:08
  Specialized immune cells that accumulate in the brain in the days and weeks after a stroke promote neural functions in mice, pointing to a potential immunotherapy that may boost recovery after the acute injury is over, neurologists found.
  
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• An illuminating possibility for stroke treatment: Nano-photosynthesis

  19-05-2021 14:05
  Blocked blood vessels in the brains of stroke patients prevent oxygen-rich blood from getting to cells, causing severe damage. Plants and some microbes produce oxygen through photosynthesis. What if there was a way to make photosynthesis happen in the brains of patients? Now, researchers have done just that in cells and in mice, using blue-green algae and special nanoparticles, in a proof-of-concept demonstration.
  
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• Laughter Yoga with Lady HaHa – Care home staff enjoy well-being week

  19-05-2021 11:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staff at Royal Star & Garter in Surbiton have enjoyed a week of treats, pampering and a lot of TLC.They relaxed with meditation, mindfulness, tai chi, Indian head massage and reiki sessions, enjoyed healthy smoothies and snacks, and listened to talks about mental health awareness.They were just some of the events and activities which took place during the Surbiton Home’s Staff Well-being Week. It ran from 26-30 April and concluded with staff enjoying a Caribbean-themed party and barbec
  
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