Today is #WorldDiabetesDay.
Over 420M people live with #diabetes. It’s is the 7th leading cause of death 🌍 & a major cause of costly & debilitating complications such as:
🔹heart attacks
🔹stroke
🔹kidney failure
🔹blindness
🔹lower limb amputations
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A special film to promote #EveryMindMatters has been written by Richard Curtis, directed by Rankin & narrated by Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It will be aired around 8:45pm tonight across multiple channels...
Today sees #WorldSepsisDay#Sepsis is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide. The best ways to prevent sepsis is through...
Vaccination
Clean water
Hand hygiene
Prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs)
Safe childbirth
Awareness
#StopSepsis#SaveLives
Allergy patients are being warned of a potential fault with Emerade adrenaline pens. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have estimated that around two in every 1,000 pens have blocked needles and are unable to deliver adrenaline. https://t.co/MYmpHk6gkU
🤔 Do you know someone who is overdue their cervical screening?
Give them a little encouragement, because that five minute test could save their life.
For more info, go to: https://t.co/zncq27fY7w
#CervicalScreeningSavesLives
Birmingham is set to become the first city in the UK to equip venues with bleed control kits, with the aim of helping to save the life of someone who suffers a critical injury. Initially, the kits will be put into 24 pubs, hotels and other venues! https://t.co/iZnK14KUxt
TB infection becomes active disease in around ten per cent of people in a lifetime. It can be caused from malnutrition, AIDS, diabetes, smoking or alcohol abuse. #WTBD2019
About one-quarter of the world's population has latent TB, which means they have been infected by TB bacteria but are not yet ill with the disease and cannot transmit the disease. #WTBD2019
Today is #WorldKidneyDay, your kidneys are vital!
Kidney Diseases affect approximately 850 million people worldwide (1 in 10).
Share to raise #awareness of kidney disease !
How To Improve Your Kidney Health 👨⚕️
Kidney failure is fatal without dialysis or a transplant and it can affect anyone but is treatable is recognised early.
Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere - Are you Kidney aware ?
64,000 people in the UK are being treated for kidney failure right now.
Improve your health to protect your Kidneys.