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Differences in Depression
Breaking completely unsurprising news.. Men and women express different symptoms of depression according to a study from Cardiff. But there are some interesting points that I wasn’t aware of. The...
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Reasons to be angry
Reuters reports that lower levels of Serotonin can lead to increased anger. There is a scientific reason why people become more grizzly when hungry, namely that ‘the essential amino acid needed for...
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Inside Alzheimer’s
There is an interesting article published by Geriatrics entitled Does Alzheimer’s really exist?. It consists of an interview with two authors of a book called The Myth of Alzheimer’s. I thought it...
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Happy Birthday, NHS
Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. There has been a lot of coverage over the last week in every kind of media source to commemorate this. From finding people...
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Vitamins, Dementia and Hope
A new trial is being carried out in the New Year to look at the effects of dosages of B3 vitamin to people who have been newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and this is reported in the Guardian. It...
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The Drugs Don’t Work (or do they?)
Medication is not my forte’, but working as I do, in a multi-disciplinary team where there are doctors and nurses present, I have a great opportunity to check any information I’m need clarification...
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Of CTOs
Community Treatment Orders – Supervised Community Treatment – however it is termed it is one of the aspects of the amended Mental Health Act that I thought I would likely not have significant contact...
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Feeding Tubes
I was appalled by this story in the Guardian this morning that residents entering some nursing homes are being required to have feeding tubes fitted as a condition of admission – this comes in a report...
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Murdered for Medication
I saw this story on the Guardian website and was amazed that it was the first I heard of it. Rachel Baker, the manager of Parkfields Nursing Home is on trial accused of murdering two women who were in...
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America’s Medicated Kids – Review
Louis Theroux is without doubt a very personable soul. He comes across as likeable and curious – the opposite of aggressive, but not in a passive way, more of a reconciler perhaps. So by tackling the...
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