Internet News no.5

It has been fairly quiet over the past few weeks so there are fewer items than usual in all subject areas. Perhaps the next few weeks will present a different picture. One particularly interesting item is an advert for a new Chief Executive for a CE centre.

Conductive Education

http://www.trurodaily.com/index.cfm?sid=111434&sc=68
Parent in Nova Scotia enthuses about Conductive Education.

http://www.loughboroughecho.net/whats-on-loughborough/events-leicestershire/2009/08/26/money-for-steps-at-music-in-the-meadows-73871-24534888/
Fundraiser for Steps Centre in Leicestershire
　
http://prayersforlittleangels.blogspot.com/2009/08/congratulations-zachary.html
Mother raising money to send child to Colorado Centre

http://www.prlog.org/10341804-cetsat-adopts-childrens-charity-to-help-50000-londoners-impacted-by-cerebral-palsy.html
IT company ‘adopts’ London CE centre which gets £14,000 investment

http://imagebearer.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/the-brace-race/
Fundraiser for Blue Ridge Association for Conductive Education centre in Virginia

http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/320352/chief-executive
Advert for new Chief Executive for CE centre in UK
　
Cerebral palsy

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-cerebralpalsy-bab,0,7147081.story
Michigan State University using $1.9 million federal recovery grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study causes of cerebral palsy by taking blood samples from all new born babies.
　
Multiple sclerosis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1207217/The-2p-blood-pressure-pill-holds-multiple-sclerosis-bay.html
Cheap blood pressure tablet able to hold off MS
　
Parkinson’s disease

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/15/pesticides-in-parkinson-s-disease-link-115875-21674838

Claim that working with pesticides can raise risk of getting Parkinson’s disease.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS80235+14-Sep-2009+PRN20090914
Announcement of the first of a series of conferences for those with early onset Parkinson’s disease.

http://www.itnews.it/news/2009/0914091001470/new-online-resource-for-people-with-parkinson-s-their-families-and-carers.html
New online resource for people with Parkinson’s disease, their families and carers.
　
Strokes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1213471/When-singer-Edwyn-Collins-strokes-family-desperate-help-But-nurses-treated-nuisance.html
Report of inadequate care for Edwyn Collins after his strokes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210030/New-blood-thinning-stroke-drug-save-lives-cut-reliance-warfarin.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/2009/sep/02/safer-alternative-to-warfarin-for-protection-from-stroke
New blood thinning drug could help save lives and protect from stroke.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=447063
Stroke survivor talks about her recovery