Scotland Needs Continued Commitment To Homelessness
Shelter Scotland has praised the contribution former Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm has made to housing and homelessness in Scotland, following news of his resignation.
Read MoreShelter Scotland has praised the contribution former Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm has made to housing and homelessness in Scotland, following news of his resignation.
Read MoreHelp fulfil Shelter Scotland’s Christmas wish to have its 5000th quote by the end of the year – and be in with a chance of winning a free consultation with celebrity designers Colin and Justin. The housing and homelessness charity are searching for the 5000th home is* quote over the festive season, as the campaign nears its climax.
Read MoreScientists at Cardiff University have developed a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers said they had created an antibody which could block the production of brain chemicals linked to the debilitating disease.
{mosimage}Dr Emma Kidd, who led the research team, said the results of the tests were “highly encouraging”.
There is no known cure for Alzheimer’s, which causes irreversible loss of brain function and memory.
The disease affects one in 20 people aged over 65 and a fifth of all people aged over 80 in the UK. The results of the study show that it is possible to decrease production of a protein called amyloid, which is believed to be the main cause of the disease.
Read MoreA 23-year-old British woman is thought to have made medical history by giving birth to three babies in two wombs. In September this year, Hannah Kersey, from Northam in Devon, had twins who were conceived in one womb, and a third daughter who grew in another.
Read MoreA strategy to enhance the vital role community hospitals play in Scotland’s changing NHS is being launched today. Developing Community Hospitals sets out a future blueprint for reorganisation of community hospitals and their services, to meet recommendations made in the Executive’s strategy for future healthcare in Scotland, Delivering for Health.
Read MoreThe UK’s fertility regulator has amended a licence to allow stem cell researchers to recruit egg donors not already having medical treatment. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has been criticised for making the decision during a public consultation on the issue.
Read MoreAn outbreak of a PVL superbug struck the maternity unit of a hospital in Plymouth leaving 10 mothers and their babies with severe infections, The Independent has learnt.
Emma Lynch, one of the mothers, developed an abscess almost eight inches long, which required emergency surgery, and her daughter, Daisy, had a boil on her breast which required lancing when she was two weeks old.
{mosimage}Daisy has since had 14 courses of antibiotics in an attempt to clear her of the bug, which is resistant to treatment.
Details of the outbreak emerged yesterday after the Health Protection Agency put out a warning to the NHS last weekend following the deaths of nurse and a patient from the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) form of the MRSA bacteria at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, earlier this year. It was the first time the PVL form had been transmitted and caused deaths within a hospital.
Read MoreThe Home Office is being forced to bring a family of failed asylum seekers it deported months ago back to Britain and pay them compensation. A judge ordered John Reid’s department to find the bogus refugees and bring them back – even though they are likely to be thrown out again. The bill for the whole exercise will be footed by the taxpayer.
Read MoreSome of the TV shows most popular with children will not be covered by proposed new advertising restrictions, a consumer group has said. Rules developed to curb the impact of junk food commercials on under-16s are “completely flawed”, according to Which?
Read MoreThe number of girls and young women drinking to excess has risen dramatically in a decade, NHS statistics released yesterday confirm. The figures chart the rise of the “ladette” culture, which emerged in the 1990s.
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