Two care workers who ‘abused, degraded and mocked’ mentally-ill patients ‘for their own amusement’ while another took photos on her mobile phone have been jailed.
Scientists from Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of turning stem cells into killing machines to fight brain cancer.
Subtle changes in the way someone walks could be an early sign of dementia, a study has found.
Plans to allow terminally-ill patients to be given untested treatments without proper safeguards were branded dangerous by a top scientist last night.
A lack of exercise is as dangerous as smoking and is directly to blame for one in six deaths in Britain, a report has warned.
Councils have been told to provide home helps and other assistance only if people are unable to complete two or more essential daily tasks.
Music therapy is a practical intervention which involves children writing songs or composing music to express their feelings
The new boss of NHS England is calling for an extra £8bn to be spent on the health service each year in the same week as figures confirmed that the amount the country is borrowing is rising again.
A drug that kills cancer cells as they try to divide has shown “dramatic” results in early research, paving the way to potentially curative treatments.
The NHS will “grind to a halt” unless more is done to help care for dementia patients in the community, Wales’ only professor of geriatrics has warned.
