Mad: how a diagnosis of dementia could lead to higher death taxes
Plans to pay a £55 incentive to GPs to encourage them to make early diagnoses of dementia could send inheritance tax bills soaring, solicitors and financial advisers are warning.
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Robin Williams’ suicide ‘was caused by hallucinations from a devastating form of dementia’ he was battling alongside Parkinson’s
Robin Williams’ suicide could have been triggered by a common but devastating form of dementia that may have disrupted his normal brain function.
Scots scientists hope for new cystic fibrosis treatment with green tea element
A POTENTIALLY major breakthrough in the treatment of cystic fibrosis has been made in Dundee after patients were given a substance most commonly found in green tea.
Cancer Drugs Fund to be restricted – says NHS
Some life-saving cancer medicines are likely to be removed from the list of expensive drugs paid for out of a special fund set up the prime minster.
Care home life unacceptable, says older people’s watchdog
Many older people living in care homes have an “unacceptable quality of life” and quickly become institutionalised, says a watchdog.
Fad diets do little to aid weight loss or boost heart health, scientists find Most people would be better off by simply cutting fat out of their diets and exercising rather than embarking on fad diets, researchers have concluded
Popular diets such as Weight Watchers are no more effective than living healthily for weight loss and are unlikely to provide long term health benefits, a study as shown.
Diet or die: Obese woman, 27, loses 20 STONE and drops ten dress sizes after doctors warned she wouldn’t live to celebrate her 30th birthday
A young woman who was told she might not see her 30th birthday if she didn’t slim down has lost an incredible 20st nearly two thirds of her body weight and dropped 10 dress sizes.
Visit hospital in the morning to be sure of a doctor with clean hands
Patients are more likely to see doctors and nurses with clean hands, putting them at lower risk of acquiring an infection, if they go to hospital in the morning, a study suggests.
Prostate cancer breakthrough as scientists STARVE tumours of their blood supply – stopping them growing and spreading
Prostate cancer could be switched off after scientists discovered a way to prevent deadly tumours from spreading.
Smoking cannabis every day ‘warps your brain and shrinks grey matter’, scientists warn
Regular use of the drug seems to shrink the brains grey matter – the cells that crunch information – according to head scans of heavy drug users.