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Pomalidomide, a new oral blood cancer therapy, has been granted Marketing Authorisation by the European Medicines Agency and is now available in the UK and Ireland.

Support providers need to focus not just on people with learning disabilities, but their families as well, says Certitude's Aisling Duffy.

 The aim of this review article is to summarise the best validated and most widely used diagnostic criteria for the four most common dementia subtypes namely Alzheimer's disease.

This review summarises important androgen deprivation therapy in management of prostate cancer, looking at new as well as established treatment options, and associated medical complications.

Vertigo is usually described as hallucination of movement or disorder of orientation in space. Cervical spondylosis is widely reported as one of the non-traumatic causes of dizziness and is often described as cervical vertigo.

The European Medicines Agency has granted an update to the marketing authorisation for Tyverb® (lapatinib) to be used in combination with Herceptin® (trastuzumab).

Over 65s now make up a sixth of the population in the UK but a recent survey by Invicta Telecare of 2,000 adults over the age 65 suggests that many feel €œheld back by ageism and don't think about their future needs€.

Giving men with testicular cancer a single dose of chemotherapy alongside radiotherapy could improve the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the risk of long-term side-effects, a new study has suggested.

A collaborative education and awareness initiative providing patients and healthcare professionals with tools and information to make informed choices on hip or knee replacement surgery has been launched. 

The number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applications has risen by 66% in the 4 years they have been in force, new figures have revealed.

Few small housing associations have a dementia strategy in place to help cope with the growing number of people with the condition, a situation which is €œvery worrying€, according to an expert.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that lack of electronic patient records in the NHS is such a problem it is leading directly to patient deaths, according to the British Journal of Healthcare Computing.

More than half of patients think taxes should be raised so the NHS can keep on providing healthcare, the Daily Mirror reports.

The number of patients waiting for hospital treatment is at a five-year high, with almost 2.9 million people on the list, according to a report in The Guardian.

A 59-year-old man says he has cured his diabetes in just 11 days.  The man claims this is the result of a miracle 'starvation' diet developed by scientists from Newcastle University.