In laboratory experiments on the basic mechanisms that cause Alzheimer’s dementia, an international research team led by Heidelberg neurobiologist Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müller and a team of French scientists have succeeded in largely “repairing” the nerve cell damage typical in this disease.
A coalition of health experts is calling for a personal trainer to be put in every doctors surgery and job centre to help tackle the UKs physical inactivity problem.
A safe nurse staffing bill in Wales has moved one step closer to becoming legislation, after ministers took a vote on its financial implications.
The UK would need over 75,000 more doctors and nurses to match standards in the rest of the developed world, leading health experts have warned.
Playing online games that exercise reasoning and memory skills could have major benefits for older people, a wide-scale study has found.
The shortages prompted health boards to launch extensive recruitment campaigns.
Older people are no more likely than younger patients to reject cancer treatment, a leading charity has found, amid warnings that pensioners are too often denied the option of surgery.
Jarral was a locum GP doing her rounds at Harmondsworth on 30 January 2013 when she met Dvorzac, who had been placed at the facility after he was found by immigration officers wandering around Gatwick airport in a confused state.
Scientists have designed microscopic “grenades” that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours.
In Cornwall Creative Spaces, a project begun in March 2014 by charity the Sensory Trust, promotes the use of outdoor spaces to improve quality of life.
