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A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has found that while more fracture patients are receiving bone health checks from Fracture Liaison Services (FLS), a greater standard of care for all 'fragility' fracture patients is required.

A total of 1.8 million young people 10-24 years of age are estimated to develop tuberculosis (TB) every year, with young adults aged 20-24 years at the greatest risk of developing infectious TB, a new study has revealed.

NHS England has written to GPs and community pharmacists, urging them to to ensure their influenza vaccine orders for the 2018/19 season use the most effective vaccines for the population.

Postnatal depression (PND) can impact the quality of relationships between mother and child into adult life, and even have a negative influence on the quality of relationships between grandmothers and grandchildren, a new study by researchers at the University of Kent has discovered.

A team of researchers from Belgium recently studied how people with Alzheimer's disease use medical services during their final months. The goal was to learn more about the best ways to help older adults with dementia at the end of their lives. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Identifying frailty in surgical patients, especially those without apparent disability, will help predict risk of adverse events and repeat hospitalisations, according to research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Vertebral fractures are the most common osteoporotic fractures. People with osteoporotic vertebral fragility fractures (VFFs) are at increased risk of future fractures, including potentially devastating and life-threatening hip fractures. 

NICE has published a quality standard on the management of Parkinson's disease in adults.

Over half (52%) of people aged over 65 years say they don't feel like they have enough sex. And almost one in three people aged 65 or over (30%) have had sex on a first date since turning 65 or would consider it.

NICE has issued a new quality standard for the management of Parkinson's disease in adults.

With the number of people living with dementia estimated to hit one million by 2020, Age UK is warning of an urgent and growing need to provide much better support for those who have been told they have the condition.

The brain reacts differently to low blood sugar levels in people with type 1 diabetes that have hypo unawareness.

Men aged between 25 and 34, living in Cardiff and working in finance suffer more with work stress than anyone else in the UK, a survey of 3,000 UK workers has revealed.

Results from a new pilot study funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF found that consuming alcohol could influence bone formation in young people, resulting in long-term consequences. 

NICE has issued draft guidance recommended brodalumab (Kyntheum, Leo Pharma) for adults with severe psoriasis […]