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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Mum calls for diabetes help in all schools
THE mother of a diabetic child is calling on the Government to offer more support for sufferers of the condition in schools. Anne McKay, from Ascot, has dealt with her daughter Sophie's condition for five years and is concerned that a failure to help diabetic children at school could affect them later in life. Diabetes UK mentioned.
http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news...3-mum-calls-for-diabetes-help-in-all-schools/
Alexandra Burke to front Diabetes UK campaign
Diabetes UK is launching a direct mail campaign, featuring The X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke, to garner support for the charity among young people. The Get Serious campaign has been developed by customer management agency, Snowball. Donna Castle, Public Affairs Manager, quoted.
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/alexandra-burke-to-front-diabetes-uk-campaign/3013994.article
Healthy eater heads diabetes campaign
A BUSINESSMAN who once loved nothing more than tucking into T-bone steaks and curries after work has been named the new ?media champion? for Diabetes UK in Wales after shedding four stone. Thanks to his earlier, unhealthy lifestyle, Andrew Owen, 45, of Laleston near Bridgend, found himself 15 stone with worryingly high blood pressure. Dai Williams, National Director of Diabetes UK Cymru, quoted
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...eater-heads-diabetes-campaign-91466-26521793/
Brushing teeth 'halts' heart disease
Dentists recommend brushing twice a day People who fail to brush their teeth twice a day are putting themselves at risk of heart disease, say researchers. A Scottish study of more than 11,000 adults found those with poor oral hygiene had a 70% increased risk of heart disease compared with those who brushed twice a day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10176410.stm
Babies are 'helped by delay in clamping umbilical cord'
Clamping the umbilical cord in newborns should be delayed for a few minutes to allow more vital stem cells to flow from mother to baby, researchers said yesterday. This would allow more blood to be transferred to the child, meaning physiological 'gifts' are handed over in 'nature's first stem cell transplant', it was claimed. During childbirth, the placenta and umbilical cord start contracting and pumping blood to the newborn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1281688/Babies-helped-delay-clamping-umbilical-cord.html
Free prescriptions for chronic illness delayed by coalition cutbacks
Plans to give 15m people with illnesses such as asthma, depression and heart diseases free prescriptions have been delayed because the NHS cannot afford it. Gordon Brown pledged at the 2008 Labour party conference to stop anyone in England with a long-term condition from having to pay for medication to ease their symptoms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/27/free-prescriptions-plan-delayed-coalition
GPs send reforms plan back to drawing board
The British Medical Association, the doctors' trade union body, today turned its back on reforms designed to protect patients from another killer doctor like the GP Harold Shipman. It rejected a detailed set of proposals from the profession's regulatory body, the General Medical Council. While it supported in principle the concept of revalidation ? doctors proving their fitness to practise on a five-yearly basis ? it had a number of serious objections.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/27/bma-rejects-doctor-gp-revalidation
Obesity ambulance takes to the road ? capable of carrying 70 stone patients
Britain?s first specially adapted ambulance for carrying obese patients hit the road yesterday ? capable of transporting people weighing up to 70 stone. South Central Ambulance Service built the vehicle specifically to tackle the demands of a sharp rise in call-outs to overweight patients. Its cavernous interior is more akin to a hospital ward than the back of an ambulance, with room enough for four beds and is fitted with all the latest life-saving equipment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ad-capable-of-carrying-70-stone-patients.html
THE mother of a diabetic child is calling on the Government to offer more support for sufferers of the condition in schools. Anne McKay, from Ascot, has dealt with her daughter Sophie's condition for five years and is concerned that a failure to help diabetic children at school could affect them later in life. Diabetes UK mentioned.
http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news...3-mum-calls-for-diabetes-help-in-all-schools/
Alexandra Burke to front Diabetes UK campaign
Diabetes UK is launching a direct mail campaign, featuring The X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke, to garner support for the charity among young people. The Get Serious campaign has been developed by customer management agency, Snowball. Donna Castle, Public Affairs Manager, quoted.
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/alexandra-burke-to-front-diabetes-uk-campaign/3013994.article
Healthy eater heads diabetes campaign
A BUSINESSMAN who once loved nothing more than tucking into T-bone steaks and curries after work has been named the new ?media champion? for Diabetes UK in Wales after shedding four stone. Thanks to his earlier, unhealthy lifestyle, Andrew Owen, 45, of Laleston near Bridgend, found himself 15 stone with worryingly high blood pressure. Dai Williams, National Director of Diabetes UK Cymru, quoted
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...eater-heads-diabetes-campaign-91466-26521793/
Brushing teeth 'halts' heart disease
Dentists recommend brushing twice a day People who fail to brush their teeth twice a day are putting themselves at risk of heart disease, say researchers. A Scottish study of more than 11,000 adults found those with poor oral hygiene had a 70% increased risk of heart disease compared with those who brushed twice a day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10176410.stm
Babies are 'helped by delay in clamping umbilical cord'
Clamping the umbilical cord in newborns should be delayed for a few minutes to allow more vital stem cells to flow from mother to baby, researchers said yesterday. This would allow more blood to be transferred to the child, meaning physiological 'gifts' are handed over in 'nature's first stem cell transplant', it was claimed. During childbirth, the placenta and umbilical cord start contracting and pumping blood to the newborn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1281688/Babies-helped-delay-clamping-umbilical-cord.html
Free prescriptions for chronic illness delayed by coalition cutbacks
Plans to give 15m people with illnesses such as asthma, depression and heart diseases free prescriptions have been delayed because the NHS cannot afford it. Gordon Brown pledged at the 2008 Labour party conference to stop anyone in England with a long-term condition from having to pay for medication to ease their symptoms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/27/free-prescriptions-plan-delayed-coalition
GPs send reforms plan back to drawing board
The British Medical Association, the doctors' trade union body, today turned its back on reforms designed to protect patients from another killer doctor like the GP Harold Shipman. It rejected a detailed set of proposals from the profession's regulatory body, the General Medical Council. While it supported in principle the concept of revalidation ? doctors proving their fitness to practise on a five-yearly basis ? it had a number of serious objections.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/27/bma-rejects-doctor-gp-revalidation
Obesity ambulance takes to the road ? capable of carrying 70 stone patients
Britain?s first specially adapted ambulance for carrying obese patients hit the road yesterday ? capable of transporting people weighing up to 70 stone. South Central Ambulance Service built the vehicle specifically to tackle the demands of a sharp rise in call-outs to overweight patients. Its cavernous interior is more akin to a hospital ward than the back of an ambulance, with room enough for four beds and is fitted with all the latest life-saving equipment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ad-capable-of-carrying-70-stone-patients.html