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There is an urgent need to make screening processes for dementia easier, less time-consuming and sensitive so that it can be used by healthcare professionals in primary care and acute medical hospitals. This article reviews FORGET, a screening tool for dementia in community out patients clinic and acute medical hospital assessments.

Technology to date has been considered to be a driving force in developing many aspects of healthcare provision and point of access care. In atrial fibrillation it can now be used to help make key treatment decisions.

Children whose parents are actively involved in managing their eczema see greater results, a new survey commissioned by Epaderm and carried out in partnership with talkhealth has revealed.

GM's June 2017 issue is out now, and all the articles from the print journal are also published online. Find out what's in this month's issue here.

The anti-epileptic drug (AED) lacosamide (VIMPAT) has received a positive opinion on a licence extension, meaning it can be used as monotherapy and adjunctive therapy in the treatment of focal-onset seizures (FOS) in children from 4-16 years of age.

Healthcare professionals should offer statins to millions of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), as this will help them to manage the increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), NICE has said.

The government's plan to tackle air pollution has been hailed as a €œbig step forward€ by the British Heart Foundation, although they warned it's unlikely many of the people living in today's polluted streets will see many of the benefits.

NICE has published a Technology Appraisal Guidance (TAG) recommending roflumilast for use within NHS England as an add-on option to treat adults with severe COPD who continue to experience exacerbations despite triple inhaled therapy.

Nutrition advice aimed at children also improves parents' diets, according to research published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Patients across England face waiting longer than a week for a GP or practice nurse appointment on more than 100 million occasions by 2022,  the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned.

Exhibiting at the GM Conference gives you the chance to meet professionals in primary and secondary care with an interest in 50+ healthcare. Find out more.

Information about speaker sessions at the GM Conference 2019, The Ageing Patient: Midlife and Beyond. 

Age UK has urged for a debate into how we fund health and care after it was announced that England's average life expectancy rates are slowing dramatically.

Survival for UK cancer patients is lower than in much of Europe, according to a new report.  

The European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion for the use of LIXIANA (edoxaban) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing cardioversion, pharmaceutical Daiichi Sankyo has announced.