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The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), has published advice accepting six new medicines for use by NHSScotland.

Too many women are unable to access any decent menopause care or support suggesting there is a desperate and urgent need for more evidence-based menopause care to occur in the UK.

In this article, a patient recounts her experiences of being diagnosed with the menopause, and considers the processes she had to go through to receive the diagnosis.

Stress urinary incontinence is a common condition, where prevalence increases with age. This article provides an overview of risk factors, diagnosis and management in a primary care setting.

Dry and itchy skin can be a challenging presentation for GPs, and is often symptomatic of other conditions. What are the common causes and other skin conditions associated with pruritus.

A new study in Cardiovascular Research, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patients with high blood pressure are at a higher risk of developing dementia. This research also shows that an MRI can be used to detect very early signatures of neurological damage in people with high blood pressure before any symptoms of dementia occur.

Highlights of the American Geriatrics Society included a presentation looking at antihypertensive drug de-intensification and recurrent falls in long-term care. This was presented by Kenneth Boockvar.

The Henderson State-of-the-Art Lecture at the American Geriatrics Society was given by Bruce Leff, a Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The 2018 Thomas and Catherine Yoshikawa Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Clinical Investigation was awarded to Heather E. Whitson, Associate Professor of Medicine and Ophthalmology at the Duke University School of Medicine and Deputy Director at Duke's Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

Highlights at the American Geriatrics Society included a talk looking at the age threshold for primary osteoporosis screening in men, which was presented by Cathleen S Colon-Emeric.

A first of its kind treatment vaccine has moved into a phase I clinical trial for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), under a collaboration agreement between Cancer Research UK and Asterias Biotherapeutics Inc.

A doctor received the annual Jeffrey H. Silverstein Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Surgical and Related Medical Specialties at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting for his work preventing the mistreatment of older adults.

Loneliness is bad for the heart and a strong predictor of premature death, according to a study presented at EuroHeartCare 2018, the European Society of Cardiology's annual nursing congress. The study found that feeling lonely was a stronger predictor of poor outcomes than living alone, in both men and women.

Highlights from the American Geriatrics Society included a talk entitled: €œWe take care of patients, but we don't advocate for them€: correctional clinicians' perspectives on barriers to advance care planning in the prison setting, which was presented by Rachel Ekaireb.

Researchers from the University of Warwick have found that keyhole surgery could help get injured sportspeople back in the game faster than traditional physiotherapy-led treatments.