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A short 5-minute scan of blood vessels in the neck could predict cognitive decline 10 years before symptoms appear, according to research co-funded by the British Heart Foundation. 

NICE has recommended a pioneering cancer treatment, CART-cell therapy, for people under the age of 25 with leukaemia.

A medicine used to treat a bladder cancer which occurs predominantly in very young children has been accepted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) for routine use in NHS Scotland. 

NHS England has announced a major overhaul of national cancer screening programmes as part of a renewed drive to improve care and save lives.

Age-related declines in abstract reasoning ability predict increasing depressive symptoms in subsequent years, according to data from a longitudinal study of older adults in Scotland. The research is published in Psychological Science.

With an ageing population, body pain is a common and growing everyday complaint. Nurofen has launched the Know More Pain campaign, which encourages people to understand more about body pain, including its causes, and ways to better engage in managing it.

A large-scale genomic analysis has found the strongest evidence yet that being overweight causes depression, even in the absence of other health problems.

Concierge Choice UK is providing GPs with the opportunity to sign up to a new private membership service that they can run alongside their NHS practice to enhance their practice income. 

A new approach to outpatient care is needed if it is to meet growing demand and reduce disruption to patients' lives, according to a new report from the Royal College of Physicians.

Experts in health and infectious diseases have said a combination of antimicrobial resistance, complacency, austerity, climate change, urbanisation and migration are increasing the risk of infectious diseases and pandemics.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has published a new analysis of NHS England performance data ahead of winter and warns that emergency care services in England are now suffering a €œyear-round crisis"

Scottish Local Authorities and healthcare workers are not routinely identifying carers of the terminally ill and are creating a pressure cooker in end-of-life care, according to two leading charities. 

Charities have been scathing about the Budget announcement of an extra £650 million being made available for social care with some stating that 2019 "was shaping up to be truly perilous" before this extra money was found.

Psychiatrists and GPs increasingly combine mirtazapine with an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) or SNRI (serotonin-noradenaline reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant for patients whose depression does not respond to a single antidepressant.

A decade of data documenting live births in the US links babies of older fathers with a variety of increased risks at birth, including low birth weight and seizures, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.