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This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47870001 By BBC Health News Spending on children’s mental health services – such as school counsellors and drop-in centres – has fallen in real terms in more than a third of areas in England, a report shows. The study, by the Children’s Commissioner, found spending had risen by 17% overall but…
This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/long-term-use-of-antidepressants-could-cause-permanent-damage-doctors-warn-11688430 By Katie Spencer, news reporter NHS figures show antidepressant prescriptions in England doubled in the last decade, with more than 70 million handed out in 2018. Long-term antidepressant users are risking permanent damage to their bodies, according to leading medical experts. Dr Tony Kendrick, a professor of primary care at…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47852728 By Owain Clarke BBC Wales health correspondent Wales can become a “global player” in precision medicine and game-changing treatments, according to the health minister. Vaughan Gething is officially opening the UK’s first high-energy proton beam therapy centre for treating cancer. The Rutherford Cancer Centre in Newport is a private clinic but took…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/it-can-be-a-wonderful-freeing-moment-opening-up-about-mental-health-at-work By Moya Sarner Mental illness is still taboo in many workplaces. But life can be transformed when you are able to talk to colleagues Iwould rather tell an employer I have excruciating period pain or terrible diarrhoea than say I need to take a day off for my mental health. Despite…
This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/mum-weeps-after-medical-cannabis-for-daughters-epilepsy-is-seized-at-airport-11685889 By Sky News The family flew to Rotterdam to obtain the medicine prescribed by a paediatric neurologist at the Erasmus Hospital. A mother who returned to the UK with illegal medical cannabis for her severely epileptic daughter wept after it was confiscated at the airport. Emma Appleby flew back to…