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Doctors may be able to identify the signs of physical abuse in older patients more easily after a new study found that clinically identifiable differences may exist between unintentional injuries and those from physical elder abuse.

The Bowel Interest Group has launched an updated edition of its Interactive Treatment Pathway for chronic constipation that has been developed to improve care and reduce costs associated with chronic constipation in the community.

This has been a stressful time for all healthcare professionals and probably now, more than ever, they need protected time to relax and forget about work for a while. Dr Harry Brown looks at ways to access digital newspapers and magazines for leisure reading.

NICE has published a new rapid guidance on arranging planned care in hospitals and diagnostic services during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

New obesity guidance from the Government has been launched after evidence suggests there is a link between obesity and adverse outcomes from Covid-19.

Prediabetes is associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease according to new research that suggests that screening and interventions could lead to prevention of heart problems.

It is well-recognised in geriatric medicine that older, frailer, multi-morbid patients often present with atypical symptoms of Covid-19 and the mortality rates in this age group are higher. This article looks at the clinical presentation of older patients in a general district hospital.

Although people in middle age are likely to live longer than the baby boomer generation, it is likely to be spent in poor health, with conditions such as diabetes and obesity affecting people earlier.

Each year the UK faces an NHS winter crisis because many chronic health conditions worsen over the colder months and seasonal illnesses such as flu and norovirus add to the pressure. Now we have Covid-19 thrown into the mix.

A Covid-19 winter wave could overwhelm the NHS and be more serious than anything we've seen so far, according to a new report by the Academy of Medical Sciences.

This article reviews end of life management of patients with Parkinson's disease. Good practice is to plan for any potential symptoms that may arise and manage complex therapies such as deep brain stimulation, apomorphine, and Duodopa intestinal gel.  

New national guidance on Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) orders are to be published by NHS England after concerns were raised by campaigners about poor and unlawful practice.

Millions of appointments and admissions were postponed or cancelled during the peak of the coronavirus crisis and doctors have called for a 'credible plan' and extra investment to tackle the back log to ensure patient safety.

Urgent research is needed to explore the link between Covid and stroke at a time when almost three quarters of stroke research projects funded by the Stroke Association have been suspended because of the pandemic.

Covid-19 is associated with neurological and neuropsychiatric illness and in a number of cases the neurological disorder was the first and main presentation, according to new research.