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Families caring for dementia relatives ‘abandoned’ by NHS

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Families looking after Alzheimer’s sufferers feel “abandoned” by the healthcare system, claims a damning report.
Despite saving the taxpayer 5billion a […]

Hospital staff ‘putting patients with allergies at risk’

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Patients with drug allergies are being put at risk because hospital staff fail to follow guidelines, experts warned today.
New research showed that less than half of patients with a known allergy to medicines were being fitted with the correct “red alert” wristbands.
Nearly three quarters of patients with an allergy did not have […]

Are health remedies too good to be true?

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We witnessing an epidemic of alternative medicine. There are thousands of therapies available - ranging from the Alexander technique and homeopathy to energy medicine, Hopi ear […]

Bird flu found on German farm

BERLIN (AP) Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and about 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
The virus was detected in ducklings at the farm near Erlangen, in northern Bavaria. A federal lab confirmed that the […]

Saving Athletes from Cardiac Arrest

By Carolyn Sayre
It happens all too often; every three days to be exact. In the middle of throwing a curveball or catching a pass, a young athlete dies of sudden cardiac arrest an abrupt loss of heart function that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and is the leading cause of […]