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New guidelines have been released by the Royal College of Psychiatrists that aim to reduce the current threat of alcohol related brain damage to older people and the rate of suicide among this age group.

A charity and provider of care for older people and adults with dementia has been selected to participate in a pilot TV documentary that celebrates the increasing number of people turning 100 in the UK.

A Kent law firm is bringing together the key messages of the upcoming Dementia Awareness Week (May 17-23) and Dying Matters Awareness Week (May 18-24) to encourage as many people as possible to talk about these highly sensitive issues.

Healthcare professionals are warning that unless there is an overhaul of unscheduled care services, there is a risk that growing demand will result in poorer outcomes for children.

GP leaders are predicting that it will take between 20 and 31 years to achieve the number of additional GPs pledged by the Conservatives, Labour and UKIP if they win the General Election, unless an emergency package of measures is introduced.

Sarah Brady, Consultant Speech and Language Therapist to Wiltshire Farm Foods. People who experience mental illness, or care for someone that does, can be faced with a range of emotional or physical challenges on a daily basis. Some of these can be obvious, but one area that receives relatively little attention is the need to ensure that the person is eating and drinking safely.

The National Osteoporosis Society has launched a new set of resources to support the implementation of Fracture Liaison Services (FLS), which save the NHS money and can save lives by preventing further fractures following a fragility fracture in people over 50.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) have announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion in the European Union approving the ClickJect Pre-Filled Pen.

More than 400,000 people with diabetes in England are not having an annual foot check, despite these being important for preventing diabetes-related amputation, according to a new analysis by Diabetes UK.

Over the course of the next Parliament, approximately 1.4 million people could die in hospital when their preference was to die at home.

Whether or not patients see the same GP could affect how quickly bowel and lung cancers are diagnosed, according to a report published in the British Journal of General Practice today.

Experiments in mice have revealed how breast milk works to ward off the development of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating intestinal disorder that affects 12 percent of premature babies and claims the lives of one in four of those who have it.

Patients with the most severe form of the immune condition Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome have been successfully treated using gene therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital. 

SWAN UK will launch a new animated film to raise awareness ahead of Undiagnosed Children's Day this Friday.

Researchers funded by Health Education England, have developed a National Career Framework to ensure that nursing staff have the skills and expertise they need to care for older people with complex needs.