Studies needed to beat Alzheimer’s
SCIENTISTS, after a six-year study, showed that antidepressants really do work. I don’t know how much this study cost but I could have told them that for nothing – in 1965.
I’m sure those resources could have been used to study something I feel is more important. Now don’t get me wrong, for I know depression is a very serious condition, but was this study really necessary?
A more urgent situation is the increase in Alzheimer’s disease, one of a number of dementia conditions, which just doesn’t affect the elderly but middleaged people too.
For this, if it isn’t already, will be a major problem not only for the individual and family but for the country as a whole. ALAN WATERHOUSE,
Seaton Delaval BIG Geordie was a welding man, he grafted doon the yards. He’d often work the neetshift, neath the clear bright shining stars. Each evening in the darkness. his timecard would get a stamp. He’d grab his rods and set to work conditions often cramped. In fume-filled rooms he grafted, where extraction ducts would rid... The bulk of all that acrid poison, for a miserly extra quid. His flowered cap was hole filled, sparks were constantly his bane. They would light the cold dock bottom, til he changed his rod again. Although the graft was grim some, gloom would never last for long. For the humour kept him going, friendships forged remained so strong. Every Thursday it was pay day, Geordie drew his hard earned wage. And after graft he’d stop and laugh, with others down the way. The Ship was always ram packed then, the Dock next door the same. Geordie supped ales with the finest afore making his way hame. And as year on year passed by, the yards would take away his prime. Geordie slowing up now slightly, deemed that he would call it time. He knew those fume filled rooms were playing havoc with his health. So big Geordie, being a wise man, put well-being before wealth. Big Geordie was a welding man. and used his skills with pride. To build the ships famed globally, upon the Tyne’s North side. JAMES BRIDGEWOOD
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