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Living well with dementia is the theme of the National Dementia Strategy, which is an exhortation to health and social care workers to improve the quality of services delivered to patients suffering dementia.

A new diagnostic tool helps clinicians to differentiate between Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and mild cognitive impairment.

UK experts call for the reduction of inefficiencies in the local management of overactive bladder (OAB), in a new report published recently.

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In this guest blog Professor Raj Bhopal argues that increased consideration of health variations in ethnic minority groups will yield benefits to all patients.

NICE should widen its urgent referral pathway for people with suspected bowel cancer, according to Bowel Cancer UK.

Taking antipsychotic medication during pregnancy can increase the chances of babies being born prematurely or needing special care, according to an Australian study.

The All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) has issued guidance on Relvar Ellipta 92/22mcg for use in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) within NHS Wales.

Cards for people with learning disabilities which explain the holder's condition and how they can be helped have been devised by ambulance chiefs at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

New guidance published by NICE looks at how lifestyle weight management programmes focusing on diet, activity and the way people live their lives (behaviour change) can help people who are overweight or obese to lose weight and to keep it off.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) occur commonly in elderly patients and may be accompanied by bacteraemia.

NICE has issued a Final Appraisal Determination  for Invokana (canagliflozin), a new treatment option indicated for reducing blood glucose levels in people for whom diet and lifestyle measures or treatment with other blood glucose-lowering medicines, do not provide adequate control.

Most headaches in pregnancy and during the postnatal period are benign, but healthcare professionals must be alert to the rarer and more severe causes of headaches, according to a report out today.

Almost a half, or 43 per cent of mothers recently surveyed said that they did not think they were given enough information about breastfeeding.

Circumcision may help prevent prostate cancer in some men, according to new research.