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• ‘Absolutely appalling’: 100 vulnerable children died in NSW last year

  02-12-2021 22:48
  
  Report finds suicide among cohort reached five-year peak while risk of significant harm rose steadily, with Indigenous children over-representedGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAbout 100 vulnerable children died in New South Wales last year despite being known by the state justice’s system, according to a government report described as “absolutely appalling” by the national children’s commissioner.Suicide among vulnerable children peaked to its highest
  
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• Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: lockdown played part in child’s violent death

  02-12-2021 20:32
  
  Questions remain over how stepmother and father’s extreme child abuse evaded detection The misery and abuse suffered by six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes in the weeks leading up to his violent death in June 2020 is difficult to comprehend.At the hands of his father and stepmother, Arthur was physically assaulted, poisoned and dehumanised over a number of months during lockdown. By the time he died, with more than 130 injuries on his body, experts said his condition met the medical definit
  
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• Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: injuries suggested treatment ‘amounting to torture’

  02-12-2021 20:32
  
  Questions remain over how stepmother and father’s extreme child abuse evaded detection The misery and abuse suffered by six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes in the weeks leading up to his violent death in June 2020 is difficult to comprehend.At the hands of his father and stepmother, Arthur was physically assaulted, poisoned and dehumanised over a number of months during lockdown. By the time he died, with more than 130 injuries on his body, experts said his condition met the medical definit
  
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• Unlocking the cause of UTI-induced delirium

  02-12-2021 20:15
  Researchers have found that blocking the action of a protein called interleukin 6 (IL-6), part of the immune system, could resolve the delirium that often accompanies urinary tract infection (UTI) in elderly patients. Their study could pave the way for clinical trials of IL-6 inhibitors as a treatment for UTI-associated delirium in humans.
  
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• Stroke may be triggered by anger, emotional upset and heavy physical exertion

  02-12-2021 20:15
  A global study into causes of stroke has found that one in 11 survivors experienced a period of anger or upset in the one hour leading up to it. One in 20 patients had engaged in heavy physical exertion. The suspected triggers have been identified as part of the global INTERSTROKE study, which analyzed 13,462 cases of acute stroke, involving patients with a range of ethnic backgrounds in 32 countries.
  
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• This isn’t a plan for social care in England – it’s a recipe for disaster | Polly Toynbee

  02-12-2021 09:00
  
  Care homes will continue to go under as workers leave the sector for better paid jobsAfter all this time, is that it? The white paper on social care in England, published on Wednesday, doesn’t begin “to fix social care once and for all”, as Boris Johnson promised on Downing Street’s steps. Ignoring the scale of this crisis, nothing was announced that will actually slow the galloping rate of the sector’s collapse, with half of councils having dealt with a care home c
  
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• This isn’t a plan for social care in Britain– it’s a recipe for disaster | Polly Toynbee

  02-12-2021 09:00
  
  Care homes will continue to go under as workers leave the sector for better paid jobsAfter all this time, is that it? The white paper on social care in England, published on Wednesday, doesn’t begin “to fix social care once and for all”, as Boris Johnson promised on Downing Street’s steps. Ignoring the scale of this crisis, nothing was announced that will actually slow the galloping rate of the sector’s collapse, with half of councils having dealt with a care home c
  
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