Mouth Care Matters in Older People
Our population is ageing as the health care workforce is ever more stretched; is mouth care being sacrificed on the altar of busyness? The scale...
Successful Support for Parents of Anorexia patients
Anorexia nervosa is one of the most severe psychiatric diseases in female adolescents. Its origin is co-conditional on a series of biological and genetic factors...
Diabetes – The Facts
Diabetes – the facts One in 15 people in the UK have diabetes. This includes one million people who have Type 2 but haven’t yet been...
Psychiatric Assessments Creating Depression and Suicide among Trans Patients
Around forty per cent of transgender people have attempted to take their own lives at some point in time. That’s a shocking, harrowing statistic, supplied...
ADHD Drug not linked to Psychotic Symptoms
New research provides reassurance that the most common ADHD drug is not linked to psychotic symptoms The most commonly prescribed ADHD drug methylphenidate does not...
Epilepsy and Aluminium
There is a long (and perhaps regrettable) history of the injection of aluminium salts into brain tissue in animal (including primates) models of human epilepsy....
RCOT launch ‘Adaptations without delay’ report
The Royal College of Occupational therapists (RCOT) has launched a new guide, ‘Adaptations without delay’ which will help speed up the process of delivering adaptations...
End of Anonymity for Fertility Donors
Campaign group PET’s free-to-attend #EndOfAnonymity debate will hear from an international panel of experts on how the availability and popularity of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing...
Love your Lungs
Dr Nick Hopkinson – medical director at the British Lung Foundation This Love your lungs week (17-23 June) the British Lung Foundation (BLF) wants to...
Early Detection of Skin Cancer: Artificial intelligence can Help to Save Lives
New imaging system made in Germany supports physicians reliably in the rapid detection of new, altered and malignant moles. Digitisation has become an indispensable part...
