HSS (F) 40-08 Managing Public Money Northern Ireland (PDF 221KB)

Managing Public Money Northern Ireland

Sexual Offending in Northern Ireland - Managing the Risk

Sexual Offending in Northern Ireland - Managing the Risk

Managing Your Cancer Pain in Hospital and at Home (PDF 32 KB)

The purpose of this booklet is to give you information about pain. It will help you understand how to describe pain, and how the pain may be treated.

Managing health and increasing well-being

The Building the Community-Pharmacy Partnership has worked to improve local health outcomes by encouraging members of the community to develop skills relating to managing their own health, and providing accessible information on the availability of services of which they can avail of. The aim is to facilitate local people to gain knowledge on various health issues through books, videos, leaflets and enable the most vulnerable and in need to access additional support through the pharmacy to complementary therapy. Outcome: A room in the pharmacy has been renovated and offers access to other support services. Funding has allowed the pharmacist to equip the room with videos, leaflets, books etc. There has been an increase in partnership working between the community group, pharmacist and more contact has been made with primary care. Further funding has allowed for the development of a subsidised support referral service for counselling and complementary therapies. As well as this, the pharmacist has worked with local groups to provide information sessions on lifestyle and on health issues identified by the local groups

Managing microglia in Alzheimer's

Microglia are often found near damaged tissue in Alzheimer's disease patients, but whether the brain's innate immune cells are helpful or harmful in the disease has been an open question. Now, German researchers have evidence that both camps got it right. A pair of studies reveals that microglia play opposing roles in AD pathogenesis: they not only eliminate �_-amyloid aggregates via phagocytosis but also kill nearby neurons by causing inflammation and the release of neurotoxic proteases.Importantly, the reports suggest that the two functions of microglia are controlled by different cell-surface receptors, thus providing a road map for how to clear �_-amyloid (A�_) plaques without destroying healthy neurons that are in close proximity. A full report is available here