NHS cuts to prescriptions of vitamin D maintenance doses would hit high risk groups, warns National Osteoporosis Society. People needing vitamin D to maintain strong bones will struggle to sustain healthy levels if plans to withdraw maintenance doses under new NHS spending cuts go ahead, the National Osteoporosis Society has warned. In a response to […]
Nurses often sacrifice their own needs to care for others, and this is right and good and expected. Nursing is a profession of selflessness where you give not to receive but to serve those in need. If you lack the ability to deny yourself (as some nurses seem to), then you can come across as […]
Climate itself is a basic determinant of the distribution of malaria in the world. As the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, “Climate can influence all three components of the life cycle. It is thus a key determinant in the geographic distribution and the seasonality of malaria.”[1] Thus for anopheles mosquitoes there […]
Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer among women in the UK, but because diagnosis is often made when the disease is more advanced, 5-year survival rates are only 46 per cent overall. The good news that this soars to a 90 per cent 5 year survival rate when tumours are detected early. When […]
Maintaining a consistent focus on something until, and if, it becomes an unconscious habit, is essentially a battle against our unruly minds. For most of us, most of the time, our mind simply doesn’t want to be tethered to one thing. Instead, it has the tendency to float from this thought to that. Whilst, to […]
Should we always challenge the distorted beliefs of someone with dementia or do inaccurate memories play an important role in helping them to retain key information? Researchers at the University of Birmingham suggest that distorted memories play a role in preserving knowledge for someone with dementia and that the role they play should be evaluated. […]
Evidence now shows that around 70 per cent of your immune system depends on having a healthy micro biome in your gut. That means the good bacteria are in balance and they help protect the body against infection and disease. Unfortunately, due to widespread use of antibiotics, and unhealthy diets that do not support the micro biome, […]
Alexander’s film gives an uplifting introduction to autism for young non-autistic audiences, aiming to raise awareness, understanding and tolerance in future generations. […]
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First Day Of Spring 2018: What To Know About The Equinox & Longer Hours Of Sunlight. The first day of spring is called the vernal equinox (sometimes also referred to as the spring equinox or March equinox) and it is almost always either March 20 or March 21 (though it will fall on March 20 […]
Intermittent energy restriction diets, such as the 5:2 diet, clears fat from the blood quicker after eating meals than daily calorie restriction diets – reducing an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, a new study in the British Journal of Nutrition reports. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of Surrey […]