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Health news: How a £3 jab in your mouth can stop snoring, eating dates may prevent heart attacks and a spray of insulin could help beat depression - Daily Mail 27th October 2009
"Health stories from around the world this week include a new method to stopping snoring, how eating dates may prevent heart attacks and using insulin spray to beat depression."
Pensioner killed after insulin overdose by nurse - The Times 27th March 2009
A diabetic pensioner who died after she was injected with ten times too much insulin by a nurse was unlawfully killed, a coroner ruled today.
Joanne Evans had just qualified as a community nurse when she used the wrong type of syringe while treating Margaret Thomas, 85, from Pontypool, South Wales.
Pensioner died after 'cavalier' nurse injected her with 10 times too much insulin - The Telegraph 27th March 2009
A diabetic pensioner who died after being injected with 10 times too much insulin by a newly-qualified nurse was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.
CPS to review insulin death case - BBC Health News 27th March 2009
A file on a nurse who mistakenly gave a diabetic woman, aged 85, a lethal dose of insulin is to be reopened.
Margaret Thomas from Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, died six hours after community nurse Joanne Evans's injection, the Cardiff inquest heard.
Nurse's insulin overdose 'horror' - BBC Health News 25th March 2009
A newly-qualified community nurse gave an elderly diabetic patient 10 times too much insulin and she died about six hours later, an inquest has heard.
Joanne Evans told the Cardiff hearing of her horror when she realised her mistake in bed later the same night.
How insulin could reduce scarring - BBC Health News 15th March 2009
Each year in the UK six million people undergo some sort of surgical procedure.
Many are left with scars. Some are hardly noticeable, but others can be deep and disfiguring.
Now a group of scientists think they have come up with a way of reducing all scarring, including those from burns and trauma, by the speedy use of an old drug.
Alzheimer's 'is brain diabetes' - BBC Health News 3rd February 2009
The most common form of dementia may be closely related to another common disease of old-age - type II diabetes, say scientists.
Treating Alzheimer's with the hormone insulin, or with drugs to boost its effect, may help patients, they claim.
Insulin may be key to fighting Alzheimer's disease - The Times 3rd February 2009
Insulin, the hormone that regulates levels of sugar in the blood, may slow or prevent memory loss caused by Alzheimer's disease, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers examining the effects of diabetes drugs on the brain have found that the medication appears to protect cells responsible for the formation of memory.
'I became allergic to my insulin' - BBC Health News 31st January 2009
When diabetic Cliff Saunders became allergic to the insulin he used to control his condition he was worried.
"I felt I was not going to pull through and was thinking, 'how long have I got?'"
Giving children in intensive care regular insulin 'helps them recover quicker' - The Telegraph 26th January 2009
Treating children in intensive care with regular doses of insulin may help them recover more quickly, new research suggests.
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