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Budesonide, a cheap and widely available drug used to treat asthma, has been found to shorten recovery time by 3 days for over-50s with Covid-19.

New research published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has found that low fat diets decrease men's testosterone levels by 10-15%.

Dementia is a major cause of disability and dependency among older people worldwide. It can be overwhelming, not only for the people who have it, but also for their carers and families. 

Three quarters of people who died at home during the Covid-19 pandemic did not get the health and social care they needed and nearly two thirds of carers said their loved one's pain wasn't fully managed.

In the general population, around 9% of people have diabetes. A recent study has found that this figures rises to 30% in patients with coronary heart disease, meaning heart patients are three times more likely to have diabetes than the general population.

NICE has published new guidance on the assessment and management of chronic pain recommending that patients should not be started on commonly used drugs and instead non-pharmacological management should be considered.

The purpose of the older people's emergency department is to provide access to an older people's medicine consultant at the front door of the hospital. The Silver Phone Service was established in order to extend this access to an expert decision maker to pre-hospital clinicians via telephone.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has stated that 'unusual blood clots' should be listed as possible side effects of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine but added that overall benefits of the vaccine in preventing Covid-19 outweigh the risks of side effects.

The largest study to date, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, suggests that there is a link between Covid-19 infection and subsequent brain conditions.

The March/April 2021 issue includes articles on older transgender patients, work stress, common skin conditions, subclinical hyperthyroidism, sarcopenia and more.

The NHS has been funding at home treatment 'swaps' for patients with cancer during the pandemic, to protect them from Covid-19. It was recently announced that this will be extended into the summer months. 

GPs and their practice teams should not be involved in facilitating Covid-19 vaccination certificates or passports as it would only intensify 'worryingly high' workload pressures already facing the profession, says RCGP.

New research has found that normal-tension glaucoma is associated with an increased risk of dementia and other types of cognitive impairment.

New research that explores whether gene editing could be used to repair faults in genes for some inherited retinal diseases is being funded by Fight for Sight.

Research from three papers, published in the journal Thorax, found that fewer patients with severe asthma attacks sought medical help during the pandemic.