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Common dementia drug is a ‘real breakthrough’ for Parkinson’s sufferers

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SCIENTISTS have discovered a commonly prescribed drug may provide a crucial lifeline for those suffering from Parkinson’s disease.</div>
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Bone-breaking injuries suffered by people with the illness could be reduced thanks to the medication, a study has found.</div>
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Around 70 per cent of people with Parkinson's will fall at least once a year, with over a third experiencing falls repeatedly, resulting in fractures, broken bones and hospital admissions, the report published in the Lancet Neurology journal said.</div>
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The breakthrough revealed the rivastigmine drug reduced this chance of falling by 45 per cent and steadied walking at the same time.</div>
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The oral drug is commonly prescribed in the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's to help improve symptoms including those affecting thinking and memory.</div>
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Over an eight-month period, scientists from the University of Bristol gave the drug to half of a group of 130 Parkinson's sufferers who had fallen in the last year.</div>
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Study participant Caroline Maxwell, from Northamptonshire, said the treatment would give her the "confidence" to leave the house by herself.</div>
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Mrs Maxwell, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's 13 years ago, said: "A few years ago, I had a bad fall while carrying my sewing machine across the room, leaving me in hospital for a week and really denting my confidence.</div>
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"I'm at the stage where I would walk much better with a replacement joint, but because I fall so frequently my surgeon is reluctant to operate. Falling on my replacement hip would put in an even worse situation than what I'm in now.</div>
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"By potentially finding a treatment that helps to prevent falls, I'd be able to get a replacement hip and have the confidence to go shopping on my own, without having to constantly rely on the goodness of strangers to pick me up when I fell."</div>
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Parkinson's is a disease which worsens over time, slowing the movement of those who suffer from it, as well as leading to tremors. Sadly, there is currently no cure.</div>
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Around one in every 500 of the population, or 127,000 people, suffer from the incredibly debilitating condition in the UK, according to the charity Parkinson's UK, which helped fund the study.</div>
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Lead researcher and Parkinson's UK research fellow Dr Emily Henderson said: "With the degeneration of dopamine-producing nerve cells, people with Parkinson's often have issues with unsteadiness when walking.</div>
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"As part of the condition, they also have lower levels of acetylcholine, a chemical which helps us to concentrate - making it extremely difficult to pay attention to walking.</div>
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"We already know that rivastigmine works to treat dementia by preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine, however our study shows for the first time that it can also improve regularity of walking, speed, and balance. This is a real breakthrough in reducing the risk of falls for people with Parkinson's."</div>
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Common dementia drug is a ‘real breakthrough’ for Parkinson’s sufferers

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Majority of women REJECTING potentially life-saving drugs that can help them BEAT cancer

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A HUGE number of women are rejecting potentially life-saving drugs for the treatment of Breast Cancer, a major cancer charity says.</div>
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Cancer Research UK has revealed that five in six women with increased risk of breast cancer are turning down drugs designed to help prevent the disease.</div>
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Medication used for breast cancer prevention include tamoxifen and raloxifine, and are usually administered on a clinical trial or by a specialist, once referred by a doctor.</div>
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Women are offered drugs to cause cancer-causing hormones and annual mammograms if they have a family history of breast cancer or, in some way, are more susceptible to the disease.</div>
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Researchers looked in to 26 international studies totalling details of 21,000 women of all ages who were at increased risk of development breast cancer.</div>
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All of the women had been offered a five-year course of preventative medicine to lower their risk of developing the disease, but just 16.3 per cent - one in six - took up the offer.</div>
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Interestingly, more women, around 25 per cent, opted to take the drugs if as part of a trial, compared to nine per cent of women who took preventative medicine outside of a clinical trial.</div>
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Researchers also discovered that when women took the drugs on a clinical trial, 80 per cent took the drug for over a year, but this declined over the five-year period.</div>
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Study author, Dr Sam Smith, from Queen Mary University of London, said: “Our important research reveals that only a small proportion of eligible women make the decision to have preventative medication.</div>
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<section class="text-description">“It’s crucial to find out why so many chose not to take the drugs – or stopped taking them before completing the course.”</section><section class="text-description">The researchers plan to investigate exactly so women are turning down the life saving drugs, although it could be do do with side effects and other perceived ‘cons’ putting people off. </section><section class="text-description">Mum-of-three Trish Jamieson, 62, lost her sister Noreen to breast cancer at the age of 38 in 1992 and also had a family history of the disease. </section><section class="text-description">She was considered at higher risk and signed up to the IBIS II trial designed to show whether a drug called anastrozole could prevent breast cancer in women at increased risk.<br />
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She finished taking the pills in March 2011. </section><section class="text-description">It is believed that the results of the trial could help prevent thousands of women from developing breast cancer in the future.</section><section class="text-description">She said: “I lost my sister to breast cancer and this meant I was also at a higher risk of developing the disease. And when I was offered anastrozole as part of the IBIS II trial I decided to take it, being eligible for the trial.</section><section class="text-description">“It’s not for everyone but I weighed up the pros and cons – which can include side effects – and decided it was something that I wanted to do. It’s definitely a personal choice but I was glad to have been given this option.”</section>

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SHOCKING new statistics have revealed the drug Britons are most likely to seek treatment for, and it's a huge surprise. </div>
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It's said Brits most commonly seek treatment for an addiction to opioids - a drug resembling opium in addictive properties or physiological effects.</div>
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Opioids are described as substances that act on the nervous system in a similar way to opiates, much like morphine and codeine.</div>
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The interactive map has been created using data from the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).</div>
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A full report was released with the information about the world's drug habits - much of Europe were in the same bag as Britain with the opioid addiction.</div>
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<section class="text-description">In the report it was estimated a total of 246 million people across the world, or 1 out  of 20 people between the ages of 15 and 64 years, used an illicit drug in 2013.<br />
Unfortunately that represents an increase of three million over the previous year.<br />
But, because of the increase in the global population, illicit drug use has in fact remained stable.<br />
Interestingly, the U.S also treats a high percentage of the nation with opioid addiction, but surrounding countries including Mexico and Canada struggle with cannabis over opioids. </section><section class="photo changeSpace"></section><section class="text-description">A more worrying fact revealed is almost half (12.19 million) of those problem drug users inject drugs, and an estimated 1.65 million of those who inject drugs were living with HIV in 2013.<br />
HIV - the NHS writes - is a virus which attacks the immune system and weakens your ability to fight infections and disease.<br />
Just two years ago there was an estimated 107,800 people in the UK living with HIV. Worryingly, it's believed 26,100 people in the UK are carrying the virus without knowing.<br />
Worldwide, those figures are raised to 35 million people living with HIV.</section><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's a shocking table of statistics to digest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's estimated a total of 246 million people across the world have used illicit drugs</td></tr>
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A more worrying fact revealed is almost half (12.19 million) of those problem drug users inject drugs, and an estimated 1.65 million of those who inject drugs were living with HIV in 2013.</div>
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HIV - the NHS writes - is a virus which attacks the immune system and weakens your ability to fight infections and disease.</div>
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Just two years ago there was an estimated 107,800 people in the UK living with HIV. Worryingly, it's believed 26,100 people in the UK are carrying the virus without knowing.</div>
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Worldwide, those figures are raised to 35 million people living with HIV.</div>
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Addicted Britain: Drug map reveals substances Britons are addicted to (and it's shocking)

This map reveals the drugs each country is addicted to, and it's worrying SHOCKING new statistics have revealed the drug Britons ...

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