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More than 180,000 people with dementia feel trapped in their own homes according to a major new report from the Alzheimer's Society.

GlaxoSmithKline has been granted marketing authorisation by the European Medicines Agency for Tafinlar® (dabrafenib) in monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery or that has spread to other parts of the body with a mutated BRAF protein.

The Parliamentary Group for Muscular Dystrophy says it is concerned about funding for high-cost drugs after the special budget for treating rare diseases in England was merged into the overall NHS budget.

Researchers have found that statins, a class of drugs widely used for lowering cholesterol, may also slow down the process of human ageing, according to a study published online in The FASEB Journal.

The UK has become the drug and alcohol "addictions capital of Europe", a think tank has warned.

The gut of the Giant Lime Green stick insect could hold the key to antibiotic resistance, the BBC reports.

Brain scans of people who say they have insomnia have shown differences in brain function compared with people who get a full night's sleep, the BBC reports.

The risk of aortic stenosis doubles when a first degree relative has heart disease, according to research presented at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2013 by Dr. Mattis Ranthe from Denmark.

New research published recently shows that almost half of all the country's seven-year-olds lead such sedentary lives that they do not even take the one hour of exercise a day which the UK's chief medical officers recommend as the bare minimum to boost their health and stop them becoming overweight or developing heart problems. 

Broccoli could hold the key to preventing painful arthritis, NHS Choices reports.

New research carried out at the University of Dundee has led to the possibility of using an old drug to help prevent the biggest cause of death in Type II diabetes patients.

Three studies by US researchers have found that eating at least three servings a week of whole fruits is associated with a 2% reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. Different types of fruit had different associated reductions in diabetes risk, according to NHS choices. 

Research in the US has found that women who regularly drank during their teens and 20s, before they had children, were more likely to develop breast cancer in later life.

Private healthcare groups face having to sell off sites after the competition watchdog found 101 private hospitals across the UK have little local competition, according to the East Anglian Daily Times.

The new chief inspector of GPs in England has been named as Professor Steve Field.