Vitamin link to bone loss probed
Scientists in Northern Ireland are to investigate if B-vitamin supplements can help prevent osteoporosis.
Scientists in Northern Ireland are to investigate if B-vitamin supplements can help prevent osteoporosis.
Britain's poorest communities are 2.5 times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than the general population, research suggests. They are also 3.5 times more likely to develop serious complications of diabetes, including heart disease. The report, by the charity Diabetes UK and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes, calls for action to tackle social inequalities.
Commenting on the Mental Health Bill announced in the Queen's Speech, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Steve Webb MP said:
Controversial laws allowing people with untreatable personality disorders to be detained, even if they have not committed a crime, are to be revived. The draft Mental Health Bill was axed in March amid much opposition.
Dundee Liberal Democrats have today (Thursday 16th November) said that yesterday's Queen's Speech showed that the Labour Government was "the triumph of quantity over quality" and showed the Labour Government has "long since run out of steam."
Cllr Fraser Macpherson, Dundee City Council's Liberal Democrat Convener of Finance, yesterday (Wednesday 15th November) welcomed the establishment of an innovative savings and loans scheme by five local housing associations.