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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Losing your memory? It could be time to get a blood sugar check
As well as the mental confusion, Cherri Gilham had blurred vision, dizziness, exhaustion, a one-sided headache, itchy skin and lameness in one foot. Tests confirmed she had an insulinoma ? a tumour-like growth in the pancreas.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...time-blood-sugar-check.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Painkillers triple the risk of kidney cancer
Taking a popular type of painkiller for more than 10 years brings a three-times higher chance of getting kidney cancer, scientists said yesterday. A study of more than 125,000 adults found people who took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ? which include ibuprofen, diclofenac, and naproxen ? were overall 51 per cent more likely to develop the disease.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/270917/Painkillers-triple-the-risk-of-kidney-cancer
Chase Farm hospital loses key services despite David Cameron's pledge
A hospital that David Cameron pledged to save while in opposition is to lose key services, Andrew Lansley has confirmed. Chase Farm hospital in Enfield, north London, is to lose its A&E and maternity units after the health secretary ? who had previously supported campaigners' efforts to retain them ? accepted recommendations from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP), which advises ministers on reshaping hospital services.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/12/chase-farm-hospital-cameron-pledge
Fish oils block chemotherapy drug
Fats found in fish oil supplements can stop chemotherapy drugs working, according to researchers. Writing in the journal Cancer Cell, they advise cancer patients not to take the supplements.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882108
Sixty per cent with dementia are ?never diagnosed?
Doctors fail to spot dementia in 60 per cent of sufferers, figures reveal today. This means hundreds of thousands of elderly people are never given a diagnosis and are left to cope with the condition without treatment or help from carers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...d-doctors-realise-done.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
New op to cure a dicky heartbeat - in a flash
Up to half a million Britons suffer from atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart-beat that can be life-threatening. Surgery to treat it often needs to be repeated. Charity manager Scott Rosser, 34, from Croydon, Surrey, was the first person in the country to undergo a procedure with a greater success rate.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...dicky-heartbeat--flash.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Kathleen thought she had the flu. In fact, it was meningitis - and it cost her both legs
For nearly six weeks, student Kathleen Hawkins struggled to overcome the devastating after-effects of meningitis B. The disease had triggered septicaemia, and Kathleen, then 19, had suffered multiple organ failure ? for three weeks she?d been on life support and kidney dialysis. Finally, she was on the slow road to recovery; tragically, however, her legs were not ? they were black and swollen, irreparably damaged by bacterial infection.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-meningitis--cost-legs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
As well as the mental confusion, Cherri Gilham had blurred vision, dizziness, exhaustion, a one-sided headache, itchy skin and lameness in one foot. Tests confirmed she had an insulinoma ? a tumour-like growth in the pancreas.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...time-blood-sugar-check.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Painkillers triple the risk of kidney cancer
Taking a popular type of painkiller for more than 10 years brings a three-times higher chance of getting kidney cancer, scientists said yesterday. A study of more than 125,000 adults found people who took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ? which include ibuprofen, diclofenac, and naproxen ? were overall 51 per cent more likely to develop the disease.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/270917/Painkillers-triple-the-risk-of-kidney-cancer
Chase Farm hospital loses key services despite David Cameron's pledge
A hospital that David Cameron pledged to save while in opposition is to lose key services, Andrew Lansley has confirmed. Chase Farm hospital in Enfield, north London, is to lose its A&E and maternity units after the health secretary ? who had previously supported campaigners' efforts to retain them ? accepted recommendations from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP), which advises ministers on reshaping hospital services.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/12/chase-farm-hospital-cameron-pledge
Fish oils block chemotherapy drug
Fats found in fish oil supplements can stop chemotherapy drugs working, according to researchers. Writing in the journal Cancer Cell, they advise cancer patients not to take the supplements.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882108
Sixty per cent with dementia are ?never diagnosed?
Doctors fail to spot dementia in 60 per cent of sufferers, figures reveal today. This means hundreds of thousands of elderly people are never given a diagnosis and are left to cope with the condition without treatment or help from carers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...d-doctors-realise-done.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
New op to cure a dicky heartbeat - in a flash
Up to half a million Britons suffer from atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart-beat that can be life-threatening. Surgery to treat it often needs to be repeated. Charity manager Scott Rosser, 34, from Croydon, Surrey, was the first person in the country to undergo a procedure with a greater success rate.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...dicky-heartbeat--flash.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Kathleen thought she had the flu. In fact, it was meningitis - and it cost her both legs
For nearly six weeks, student Kathleen Hawkins struggled to overcome the devastating after-effects of meningitis B. The disease had triggered septicaemia, and Kathleen, then 19, had suffered multiple organ failure ? for three weeks she?d been on life support and kidney dialysis. Finally, she was on the slow road to recovery; tragically, however, her legs were not ? they were black and swollen, irreparably damaged by bacterial infection.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-meningitis--cost-legs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml