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• People with fibromyalgia are substituting CBD for opioids to manage pain

  24-06-2021 18:17
  As the ravages of the opioid epidemic lead many to avoid these powerful painkillers, a significant number of people with fibromyalgia are finding an effective replacement in CBD-containing products, finds a new study.
  
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• HPC Sells South Yorkshire Care Home to Expanding Operator

  24-06-2021 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  HPC has acted for the vendors in the sale of Bollingbroke House Care Home in Brierley, South Yorkshire. The property is a substantially purpose built care home, built around a period house, and provides well laid out accommodation registered for 33 residents across two floors. Planning permission had also been obtained for the construction of 32 care apartments on the site, adjacent to the existing care home.Bollingbroke House had operated within a larger care group for many years, and one of th
  
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• Ground-breaking Ceremony for Winchester-based charity

  24-06-2021 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Winchester-based charity, The Brendoncare Foundation, is pleased to formally mark the construction of its 60-bedroom nursing and dementia care home development in Winchester with a ground-breaking ceremony on 27 May 2021.The new home, Brendoncare St Giles View, is in the St Giles Hill area of Winchester. It has been custom designed by Octopus Real Estate’s in house healthcare development team for Brendoncare who will lease and operate the new home.Brendoncare St Giles View is being built b
  
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• Elderly Farnham resident knits teddy bears for local hospital

  24-06-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ridgway Court, a residential care home in Farnham managed by the Abbeyfield Wey Valley Society, provides care and accommodation for up to 16 older people. One resident, 87-year-old Edna Jones, has been creating some rather special gifts to brighten up the lives of children and adults alike in her local neighbourhood.When her husband of 43 years passed away, Edna realised that she needed to move into a care home. As a local resident for most of her life, she was familiar with the area and Ridgway
  
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