Tag Archive for: BBC News – Health

Short-sighted NI kids treated differently to the rest of the UK
Optometry NI chair says rules stopping children from paying for special short-sightedness treatment using NHS vouchers should change.
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‘Eating disorder misdiagnosis left me with PTSD’
Charlotte Chapman-Hart was misdiagnosed with an eating disorder and now works to bring awareness to rare diseases.
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Wellbeing walking maps to encourage green travel
The illustrated walking maps guide people along four car-free routes in and around Tewkesbury.
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Inside Health
Shingles vaccine to reduce dementia risk? Antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea & tech trousers
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‘Eating disorder misdiagnosis left me with PTSD’
Charlotte Chapman-Hart tells of her experience of a lack of uncoordinated and informed care.
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‘Pip tick-box system is not targeting the right people’
A chef with kidney failure calls for Pip assessments to change after he was refused the benefit twice.
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Art charity ‘buzzing’ to move into new £75m campus
Art Shape works with the NHS to deliver creative courses as prescriptions.
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The life-changing gene therapy that can restore vision
Andrew had known since childhood that one day he would lose his sight. He donated his skin cells to researchers working on a treatment, hoping for a breakthrough not just for himself, but also for his daughter...
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Warning issued over branded kids’ magnesium gummies
An undeclared drug that can cause drowsiness and headaches has been found in Nutrition Ignition supplements.
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Warning issued over branded kids’ magnesium gummies
An undeclared drug that can cause drowsiness and headaches has been found in Nutrition Ignition supplements.
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