Gerontology & Geriatrics

New aged care funding model offers reform for Australians

The profile of Australian aged care residents has changed markedly in recent years, and the developers of a new system for classifying residents, published today by the Medical Journal of Australia, say their model is better ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK begins coronavirus vaccine trial; France pledges funding (Update)

Scientists at Imperial College London will start immunizing people in Britain this week with their experimental coronavirus shot, while pharmaceutical company Sanofi and the French government announced more than 800 million ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

US superbug infections rising, but deaths are falling

Drug-resistant "superbug" infections have been called a developing nightmare that could set medicine back a century, making conquered germs once again untreatable.

Gerontology & Geriatrics

How to check if a nursing home is up to scratch

If you've read the headlines about poor standards in Australia's nursing homes, it's only natural to be concerned about your own family or friends in residential aged care.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Dementia deaths in Scotland rise nearly 6% year on year

Alzheimer's Research UK, the UK's leading dementia research charity, is calling for a government commitment to fund more dementia research than ever before following new figures from National Records of Scotland released ...

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