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New website encourages legacies
A website that encourages people to leave legacies to charity and use their funerals to raise money for good causes has gone live. The site, mylastsong.com, includes a section on leaving legacies as well as guidance on preparing wills. Diabetes UK mentioned as mylastsong.com's Charity of the Month.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/rss/article/1007810/New-website-encourages-legacies/
Rosemarket family go an extra mile for Diabetes UK Cymru
Three generations of a family from Rosemarket are ready to go an extra mile tomorrow (Sunday) to raise money for Diabetes UK Cymru. Lisa Townley, her son Scott, daughter Lily-Ann and her mother Gillian Whatling are putting their best feet forward for the charity in support of Scott, who was diagnosed with type one diabetes last year.
http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/8203138.Family_to_walk_the_extra_mile_for_Scott/
'Pounds for pounds' scheme helps obese people shed stones
The first NHS scheme to offer cash rewards for losing weight has helped more than 100 obese people shed nearly two stone each in a year. Cash payments of up to ?425 were offered by an NHS primary care trust in Kent to 402 volunteers who signed up for the year-long "Pounds for pounds" trial in January 2009.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...e-helps-obese-people-shed-stones-1993285.html
Cholesterol is controlled by a hormone in the brain, scientists find, giving hope for new drugs
Cholesterol levels are controlled by a hormone that regulates hunger, research has found, offering hope of new treatments to reduce levels of the dangerous fat. To much 'bad' cholesterol can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
(Note: they have got their good and bad cholesterol the wrong way around at the end of the article. HDL=good/LDL=bad)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...e-brain-scientists-giving-hope-new-drugs.html
How changing children's diets can prevent them developing asthma
Changing the lifestyle of babies at high risk of asthma can stop them getting it in later life, claim British researchers. Cutting out nuts, dairy foods and soya, as well as reducing the level of dust mites in bedding and the nursery, lowers asthma rates among teenagers, according to a new study. It shows for the first time that intensive manipulation of the diet of youngsters - and their breastfeeding mothers - and the environment in which they grow up can affect their chances of developing asthma and allergies.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...hildrens-diets-prevent-developing-asthma.html
Scandal of aborted IVF babies
DOZENS of young women are having abortions on the NHS after expensive IVF treatment because they have changed their minds about becoming a mother. Some terminate pregnancies after splitting from their husband or boyfriend, others because they were pressured into starting a family. The phenomenon is worrying doctors and has triggered a backlash from family campaigners who accuse the women of treating babies like "designer goods".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7144899.ece
Ovarian cancer drug Avastin could extend life by four to six months
A promising drug used in the treatment of bowel, breast and lung cancer could also help to extend the lives of women with advanced ovarian tumours, a landmark study suggests. Results released at a major cancer conference in the United States indicate that taking bevacizumab (Avastin), in combination with standard chemotherapy, can offer women an extra four to six months of life without their disease getting worse.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article7145197.ece
A website that encourages people to leave legacies to charity and use their funerals to raise money for good causes has gone live. The site, mylastsong.com, includes a section on leaving legacies as well as guidance on preparing wills. Diabetes UK mentioned as mylastsong.com's Charity of the Month.
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/rss/article/1007810/New-website-encourages-legacies/
Rosemarket family go an extra mile for Diabetes UK Cymru
Three generations of a family from Rosemarket are ready to go an extra mile tomorrow (Sunday) to raise money for Diabetes UK Cymru. Lisa Townley, her son Scott, daughter Lily-Ann and her mother Gillian Whatling are putting their best feet forward for the charity in support of Scott, who was diagnosed with type one diabetes last year.
http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/8203138.Family_to_walk_the_extra_mile_for_Scott/
'Pounds for pounds' scheme helps obese people shed stones
The first NHS scheme to offer cash rewards for losing weight has helped more than 100 obese people shed nearly two stone each in a year. Cash payments of up to ?425 were offered by an NHS primary care trust in Kent to 402 volunteers who signed up for the year-long "Pounds for pounds" trial in January 2009.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...e-helps-obese-people-shed-stones-1993285.html
Cholesterol is controlled by a hormone in the brain, scientists find, giving hope for new drugs
Cholesterol levels are controlled by a hormone that regulates hunger, research has found, offering hope of new treatments to reduce levels of the dangerous fat. To much 'bad' cholesterol can lead to heart attacks and strokes.
(Note: they have got their good and bad cholesterol the wrong way around at the end of the article. HDL=good/LDL=bad)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...e-brain-scientists-giving-hope-new-drugs.html
How changing children's diets can prevent them developing asthma
Changing the lifestyle of babies at high risk of asthma can stop them getting it in later life, claim British researchers. Cutting out nuts, dairy foods and soya, as well as reducing the level of dust mites in bedding and the nursery, lowers asthma rates among teenagers, according to a new study. It shows for the first time that intensive manipulation of the diet of youngsters - and their breastfeeding mothers - and the environment in which they grow up can affect their chances of developing asthma and allergies.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...hildrens-diets-prevent-developing-asthma.html
Scandal of aborted IVF babies
DOZENS of young women are having abortions on the NHS after expensive IVF treatment because they have changed their minds about becoming a mother. Some terminate pregnancies after splitting from their husband or boyfriend, others because they were pressured into starting a family. The phenomenon is worrying doctors and has triggered a backlash from family campaigners who accuse the women of treating babies like "designer goods".
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7144899.ece
Ovarian cancer drug Avastin could extend life by four to six months
A promising drug used in the treatment of bowel, breast and lung cancer could also help to extend the lives of women with advanced ovarian tumours, a landmark study suggests. Results released at a major cancer conference in the United States indicate that taking bevacizumab (Avastin), in combination with standard chemotherapy, can offer women an extra four to six months of life without their disease getting worse.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article7145197.ece
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