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Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates are decreasing or stabilising in most parts of the world, with the US recording the biggest drop in incidence, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting.

Trips to the toilet at night are a sign of high blood pressure, according to results from the Watari study presented today at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society.

The British Medical Association has called on the government to end the €œsqueeze€ on public health spending as services to prevent ill-health in England are deteriorating.

Exercise helps to prevent the degradation of cartilage caused by osteoarthritis, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London.

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NICE has today published draft final guidance recommending durvalumab (Imfinzi) for people with locally advanced unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer, who have already had platinum-based chemoradiation.

Despite national guidelines indicating that statins can lower the risk of heart attack and stroke, many patients who could benefit do not take them because of fear of side effects.

Cancer Research UK has announced a multimillion-pound drug discovery alliance with LifeArc and Ono Pharmaceutical Company that will allow immunotherapy drug targets for cancer to progress.

Orthostatic hypotension is a common presentation in older adults; however paraneoplastic autonomic neuropathy is very rare but often underdiagnosed in older people presenting with orthostatic hypotension.  

Researchers have identified a metabolic process in the heart that, if treated, could someday prevent or slow the progression of heart failure. 

Pain relief and end of life care are not being provided equally to people with advanced progressive diseases who were at home during their last three months of life, according to a study of 43,000 people who died across England.

Waiting times for both elective and cancer treatment has continued to grow, according to a new report by the National Audit Office. However, a growing and ageing population only accounts for a relatively small proportion of the increase in referrals for elective care and cancer.

There are around one million victims of elder abuse each year in the UK. How should healthcare physicians respond if they suspect elder abuse and what happens next?

The largest conference of GPs in the UK has today called on the government to take 'immediate steps' to offset the effects of Brexit on the Northern Ireland health service.

Patients' voices are ignored all too often in osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines, according to researchers who reviewed 70 English-language guidelines around the world and found less than 40% included any mention of patients' beliefs, values or preferences.