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In the fall of 1989, seventeen staff opened the doors to London's first community health centre. Led by Shanthi Radcliffe, Executive Director, and Dr. Douglas Bocking, Board Chair, they provided sensitive and equitable health services for the city's most vulnerable. In its first year, the London InterCommunity Health Centre served more than 1,500 clients, while offering community programming, health promotion and education focused on the needs of immigrant women and seniors.
The milestones achieved since are a testament to the passion and commitment of the community, volunteers and staff who have shaped our Health Centre. The accomplishments we celebrate include:
the opening of Options, an anonymous HIV testing clinic
the expansion of our services to support people who are homeless
the addition of a Youth Outreach Worker team supporting at-risk youth in the city's north east
an innovative WrapAround program supporting isolated immigrant and francophone seniors
the development of a trans health team to support trans-gendered individuals
the expansion of street outreach services (care and treatment) for people living with Hep C and HIV (MyCare)
the London's Street Level Women at Risk partnership to support street-level sex trade workers
Today, the Health Centre staff team has reach over 100 employees who serve more than 7,000 clients. We stand out from other health care models because we focus on keeping people – and the communities where they live – in good health through primary care services, health promotion and community development.
We give people a voice and a choice about the services they receive and we connect clients to interprofessional health and social service providers. Together we help individuals and neighbourhoods achieve their health goals.

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Home News Diseases & Conditions News £1.6 million raised for innovative Parkinson's disease technology
£1.6 million raised for innovative Parkinson's disease technology
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An Imperial College London startup will innovate Parkinson's disease monitoring and treatment through new technology.
SERG Technologies, a startup formed at the Imperial College London, will focus on innovating care for neurodegenerative movement disorders (NDMDs such as Parkinson's disease, Ataxia and Chorea. The startup has raised £1.6m from investors, which includes £250,000 from the Imperial College Innovation Fund I and will use the funds to develop technology for monitoring and treating Parkinson's disease.
The company's integral technology NuRO, was developed in Imperial's Biomechatronics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering by Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan, the Lab's director, and Dr Samuel Wilson, SERG Technologies' CTO, both co-founders.
"Our vision at SERG is to help people with Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases to live symptom-free. NuRO could give patients and clinicians a much clearer picture of their condition, enabling treatment to be tuned accurately as needed," commented Dr Christos Kapatos.
NuRO: a connected platform for Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease affects 150,000 people in the UK, and treatment costs equate to around £3 billion a year. The new technology characterises the disease, helping healthcare professionals create a customised treatment plan.
SERG developed NuRO to track, classify and manage Parkinson's disease. To monitor the cardinal Parkinsonian symptoms of tremor, slow movement and muscle rigidity, the team used a wearable sensor combined with Artificial Intelligence that monitors and scores symptoms.
The platform innovation will continue through the summer of 2022; and then the team plan will employ their technology in a clinical trial. Previously, SERG has conducted initial in-person trials and has tested its wearable device on hundreds of patients at two of the UK's largest hospitals for NDMD treatment, Charing Cross Hospital and St George's Hospital, both in London.
Dr Brijesh Roy, Seed Investment Manager at Imperial College London, said: "SERG has identified a promising technical solution to the substantial challenge of improving disease management for the UK's Parkinson's patients. This funding round allows the company to gather important data and progress towards a commercial product launch."
"Imperial's Biomechatronics researchers have used their groundbreaking acoustic sensing technology to create a physiological digital twin of human muscle. This unique technology opens the doorway to Parkinson's telemedicine through remote disease diagnosis, monitoring and even treatment. The technology has already shown huge promise in clinical studies and this funding round will now accelerate the pathway to patients."
The role of monitoring for NDMD diseases
The challenge with Parkinson's disease is that no definitive biomarker exists, meaning that doctors diagnose based on symptoms. The progression of symptoms also determines the stage of the disease.
Doctors usually treat symptoms with a dopaminergic drug and determine the dosage based on the patient's response. As Parkinson's disease progresses, doctors will alter their treatment plan, illuminating the importance of an accurate monitoring tool.
The current treatment pathway poses a clear limitation. Doctors only have access to a snapshot of symptom severity, meaning treatment is not future-proof. Furthermore, Parkinson's disease symptoms vary throughout the day, which could result in ineffective treatment plans.
This is where NuRO can be employed, as it continuously monitors disease progression helping doctors make informed treatment decisions. The wearable technology produces an accurate characterisation of the disease states comparable to the clinical gold standard, MDS-UPDRS.
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'I looked like a Christmas pudding!' Mother loses half her body weight after being horrified by picture of herself at festive party
Carol used to comfort eat up to 5000 calories a day
After seeing photo of herself at a Christmas party she embarked on diet
Used a meal replacement programme and walked daily
Dropped from 21st and size 28 to 9st 10lbs and size 12
By Katy Winter
A mother has shed more than half her body weight for the festive season after being disgusted by a photo taken at a Christmas party last year.
Carol Bryant, 42, from Brighton, was 'horrified' by her 21 stone frame when she saw a photo of herself socialising with a friend.
The full-time mother vowed to shed the weight in time for the following festive season - and this year she will be rewarded for her efforts as she can host her own Christmas party as a svelte size 12.
'I looked like a Christmas pudding': Carol Bryant, right, said she was was horrified when she saw this picture of herself at a Christmas party last year
Slim: Carol has now dropped from 21 stone to 9 stone 10lbs and a trim size 12 after going on an extreme diet
She said: 'I was mortified when the photo went up on Facebook. l didn't even recognise myself at first, I looked like a Christmas pudding.'
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Determined to change her ways, in January 2013 she decided to try a meal replacement programme which limits your daily calorie intake to just 500 calories each day.
'I knew I had to do something about my weight,' she explained.
Nutritionists verdict on extreme meal replacement diets
Ian Marber, nutritionist says: 'The diets are monitored and so are considered safe for that reason.
'But very low calorie diets are not to be undertaken in the long term without supervision and also, importantly, clearance from your GP.
'It's what you eat after the diet has finished that's vital and I recommend seeing a nutrition professional afterwards to learn how to eat, not how to diet.'
'I was absolutely massive and I was terrified I would have a heart attack.
'Not to mention how awful I looked in photographs next to my slim friends.
'I was so jealous of all the fashionable clothes they got to wear, while I was stuck in frumpy t-shirts and baggy trousers.'
After sticking to the plan for a year, Carol has shed 12 stone and gone from a size 28 to a trim size 12 in time for Christmas.
'This year there will be no hiding at Christmas parties for me,' said proud Carol.
'I've already picked out a gorgeous, shimmering size-12 dress to show off my trim, new figure. And I feel incredible.'
Devastated by seeing herself in the photos Carol vowed to boycott Christmas parties until she lost the weight
Unsurprisingly, Carol's 5000 calorie-a-day diet saw her weight balloon from 15 stone and a size 16, to a massive 21 stone and a size 28
'No role model': Carol quit her job working in an office to become a full-time mother to Lois, now six, pictured, but found herself spending a lot of time on the sofa
Carol had always struggled with her weight. When she was in her teens she was a size 16, then in 2007 after having her daughter Lois, now six, she piled on more pounds.
This year she will be rewarded for her efforts and hosting her own Christmas party as a svelte size 12
She quit her job working in an office to become a full-time mother, but would spend her days sat on the sofa gorging on greasy take-aways, fatty chocolates and salty crisps.
Unsurprisingly, her 5000 calorie-a-day diet saw her weight balloon from 15 stone and a size 16, to a massive 21 stone and a size 28.
Carol says: 'It was disgusting how large I got, and I was no role model for my little girl. I was constantly hungry and would shovel platefuls of food down my throat without even thinking. It was an addiction.'
But within the first two weeks of her diet, Carol had lost an incredible 24Ibs.
'The weight was just falling off of me,' she said. 'It was an amazing feeling and it spurned me on to lose more weight.'
Carol also began walking every day so she now she weighs in at just 9st 10Ibs, dress size 12.
Instead of having the meal replacements, she's now joined Slimming World so she can sustain her weightloss and said she's never felt more confident.
'This year I can't wait to show off my party dress,' she said. 'I won't be hiding away in the corner, I want to be the centre of attention. I want to party my way through the celebrations, making up for all those lost years.'
Carole's diet before
Breakfast: Four slices of white toast, buttered
Lunch: White bread cheese sandwich with crisps, soda
Dinner: Doner Kebab with chips
Snacks: White toast with butter, crisps, chocolate, block of cheese
Carole's diet now
Breakfast: Fruit smoothie
Lunch: Vegetable soup, brown bread
Dinner: Quorn chilli with brown rice and vegetables
Snacks: Fruit, plain yogurt
'I looked like a Christmas pudding!' Mother loses half her body weight after being horrified by a picture of herself at a Christmas party