Fit legs equals fit brain, study suggests
Older women who have strong legs are likely to fare better when it comes to ageing of the brain, a decade-long study of more than 300 twins suggests.
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Stroke victims ‘given wrong drugs because doctors just guess their weight’
Ten thousand stroke victims a year are being given the wrong dose of life-saving drugs because doctors are merely guessing their weight, research has found.
Care homes cash crisis could see collapse of residential care within five years, costing the NHS £3 billion annually
A cash crisis facing care homes across the country could see a collapse of residential care within five years, costing the NHS an extra £3 billion annually as a result, warns a new report.
Scale of dementia death in the UK trebles in a decade
The scale of Britains dementia crisis is exposed in new official figures showing the proportion of people dying from conditions such as Alzheimers has trebled in just a decade.
The five surprising health benefits of champagne
The truth is that champagne is in fact a medicine, just like Calpol or marijuana. And we can prove it.
Review into patient death at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow
An investigation is under way after an elderly man died on a trolley at Scotland’s new £842m hospital following a six-hour wait for treatment.
John Lewis Christmas advert a haunting tear-jerker showing devastating loneliness of forgotten elderly
Retailer John Lewis has stepped up its Christmas advert game with one so devastatingly weepy, viewers will be sobbing until January.
Standard muscle loss definition ‘may help cut falls risk in elderly’
Older people diagnosed as having an age-related loss of muscle mass and strength may be at greater risk of falling and bone fractures, according to UK researchers.
Julia Knight injected mother Irene Robson with insulin at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, court heard
A NURSE has been found guilty of attempting to murder her elderly mother using a lethal dose of insulin.
Parents who refused to let baby die of leukaemia change medical history Lisa Foley and Ashleigh Richards refused to let their daughter die of cancer
Around one in 2000 children are diagnosed annually with ALL but the outlook is usually good with almost all achieving a remission and 85 per cent will be completely cured.