The recycling centre for FALSE LIMBS: Quadruple amputee launches service to helps others in need - and has been given 1,000 limbs so far
Ray Edwards MBE, 59, from Sandhurst, Berkshire, lost both of his arms and both of his legs when he developed septicaemia in 1987. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ellie Bishop lost both legs and an arm to meningitis but returns to horse riding
Ellie Bishop, 13, from the West Midlands, developed meningitis and septicaemia when she was just five years old. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New receptor discovered that may be instrumental in the body's response to sepsis
Sepsis, or septicaemia, is a devastating disease that is difficult to diagnose early and for which treatment options are limited. The number of deaths from sepsis exceeds those from lung cancer, and from breast and bowel cancer combined.Sepsis can affect any age group and is the leading cause of death in Intensive Care: it is estimated that 37,000 people die from severe sepsis in the UK each year with annual NHS costs exceeding £1.5billion. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Vaccination 'a civic duty' according to new report
This report provides useful information about adult immunisations in the UK as well as useful recommendations for increasing immunisation coverage, particularly among social care workers. However, it does not replace current guidelines for recommended vaccines. Currently recommended vaccines for adults in the UK are described below.
Who produced the report?
This report, titled ‘Immune response. Adult immunisation in the UK’ was written by the UK’s International Longevity Centre (ILC-UK). According its website, the ILC-UK is a registered charity and independent think tank dedicated to addressing issues of longev...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Medication Older people QA articles Source Type: news
Medical student wins poster presentation at international meningitis conference
Tomos Edwards, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Bristol, was awarded first prize for his poster presentation on ‘The Orthopaedic Sequelae of Childhood Meningococcal Septicaemia’ at the recent Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) conference ‘Meningitis and Septicaemia in Children and Adults 2013’. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - November 18, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Grants and awards Source Type: news
'Suddenly my baby boy's limbs were black': Father's heartbreaking account of how meningitis cost his toddler a leg
EXCLUSIVE: Gareth Stephenson’s son, Noah, from Cardiff, contracted meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia in March. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NHS advisers reject meningitis B vaccine
The government body that advises the NHS on vaccine policy, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), has decided that the new meningitis B vaccine (Bexsero) will not be added to the routine childhood vaccination schedule.
In a position statement the JCVI says "on the basis of the available evidence, routine infant or toddler immunisation using Bexsero is highly unlikely to be cost effective at any vaccine price".
What is meningitis B?
Meningitis B is a highly aggressive strain of bacterial meningitis that infects the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It is very s...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Medical practice QA articles Source Type: news
Stronger Laws to Deter Acid Attacks on Women
An acid survivor in Bangladesh is rebuilding her life with help from the Department for International Development (DFID). Credit: Narayan Nath/FCO/Department for International Development (DFID)/CC-BY-2.0Preeti Rathi was just 25 years old when she passed away in a Mumbai hospital exactly a month after a man threw acid on her while she stood waiting on a railway platform.
Rathi had travelled from India’s capital, New Delhi, to work as a nurse at INHS Ashwini, the naval hospital in south Mumbai. Despite closed-circuit television footage of the railway platform on which the attack took place, and massive protests launched b...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 16, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ranjita Biswas Tags: Active Citizens Asia-Pacific Civil Society Crime & Justice Democracy Development & Aid Education Featured Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Poverty & MDGs Regional Categories TerraViva Europe Women's Heal Source Type: news
Girl, 6, who nearly died of meningitis and septicaemia goes on to be crowned a beauty queen in global contest
Jessica Fay, from Burnley in Lancashire, caught meningitis and developed septacaemia when she was just 15-weeks-old. Her condition was so bad that doctors were not sure if she would pull through. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Probe over blood poisoning deaths
An investigation is under way into unusually high numbers of septicaemia deaths at the Royal Bolton Hospital. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study Reveals Effects Of Meningitis And Septicaemia On Learning In School Children
A Meningitis Research Foundation funded study has shown that meningitis and septicaemia have a significant impact on children's school performance. Their ability to learn and their behaviour are especially affected and are worse than for children treated in intensive care with other critical illnesses. The new research, from Imperial College London, conducted at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street hospitals and just published in the journal Critical Care Medicine, looked at children aged 5 to 16 years old who had been in paediatric intensive care... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
New meningitis B vaccine approved for UK use
Much of the media are reporting the news that a new meningitis B vaccine called Bexsero has been licensed by the European Commission. This means the vaccine should soon be available for use in the UK.
What is meningitis B?
Meningitis B is a highly aggressive strain of bacterial meningitis which infects the protective membranes surronding the brain and spinal cord. It is very serious and should be treated as a medical emergency. If the infection is left untreated, it can cause severe brain damage and infect the blood (septicaemia). In some cases bacterial meningitis can be fatal.
How common is meningitis B?
The charit...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Pregnancy/child Source Type: news
Meningitis B jab 'biggest breakthrough since the polio vaccine'
Steve Dayman, founder of the charity Meningitis UK, who lost his 14-month-old son Spencer to meningitis and septicaemia, says the vaccine has the potential to save thousands of lives. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - January 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Phase III studies of primary and booster doses of investigational meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB)
Source: Lancet
Area: News
According to Phase III data published early online in the Lancet, an investigational meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB) led to an immune response against four reference serogroup B meningococcal strains in 84-100% of infants, and in 95-100% after a 12-month booster dose, without any clinically significant effect on routine childhood vaccines.
The authors note that meningococcal serogroup B is now the most prominent cause of infant bacterial meningitis and septicaemia in Europe. As serogroup B polysaccharide is immunologically similar to that of human neural-cell adhesion molec...
Source: NeLM - News - January 14, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
When angels catch us – Madeline ’ s hysterectomy story
How do we know there are angels? Do we have our own special guardian angels watching over us? How many times have we almost entered into danger only to change our minds at the last minute?
Is this simply being lucky or has there been an unconscious inner voice warning us? I have truly believed for a long time that there are God’s angels watching over us and over the years there have been occasions when I have had warnings of some impending doom and thankfully avoided tragedy. Sometimes I’ve just had feelings or a “sixth sense” and the negative event still happened but somehow I had felt that premonition. Wa...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - April 27, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health hysterectomy stories Source Type: news
