Alzheimer’s Latest News – New drug may halt Alzheimer’s progress

New drug may halt Alzheimer’s progress. 29th July 2008 from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust
British scientists have discovered a treatment that appears to slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease by 81%.

Professor Claude Wischik and colleagues from the University of Aberdeen and TauRx Therapeutics, where he is Chairman, used the drug rember (methylthionium chloride) to act on the [...]

Patient Information – Self-Help Guides

    The new Lancashire Care Patient Information site is now under development. Information and resources will be continually added over the next few weeks …..  If you need to give out information to Patients and are looking for accredited, up-to-date information look no further than the new site.
On site now is:
Self-Help Guides – Click on the [...]

Occupational Therapy – Factors that impede the discharge of long-term schizophrenic inpatients

Factors that impede the discharge of long-term schizophrenic inpatients, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2008, Online early article
Abstract:
The aim of the present study was to explore factors that impede the discharge of long-term schizophrenic inpatients, and it was focused on the patients’ subjective views. Semi-structured interviews based on the Occupational Self Assessment (OSA) of 73 [...]

Psychological Therapies – While we are waiting: Experiences of waiting for and receiving psychological therapies on the NHS

While we are waiting: Experiences of waiting for and receiving psychological therapies on the NHS, 25th July 2008, We Need to Talk Coalition
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Abstract:A group of leading mental health charities has published a report which says that the lives of those stuck on long NHS waiting lists for psychological [...]