Benefits from recent NHS adjustments intended to ensure priority treatment for servicemen and women are not being seen as nearly half of GPs were unaware of the changes, reports BBC News. In light of this new evidence it is likely that GPs will be issued with new guidelines, helping them to identify veterans in their read more »

Research has revealed that men who have partners with breast cancer stand a high risk of developing a mental health problem. The Danish study from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at the records of more than a million men aged 30 or older who had no history of mental illness and who read more »

A recent social experiment conducted as part of the Time to Change campaign which addresses mental health prejudice’s has found that more people in England (57%) would turn down a date with someone who had a mental health illness than someone they found unattractive (44%) or someone without the same interests (43%). The study involved read more »

A U.S study has found that online bullying is just as harmful, if not more so than physical beatings or name calling. Researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have analysed data from an international 2005/2006 study which involved 4,500 pre teens and teenagers. The participants were asked about feelings of read more »

A report has recently revealed that the costs associated with dementia will amount to more than 1% of the world’s gross domestic product this year at £388bn. This amount is likely to dramatically increase over the next few years as dementia is expected to double by 2030, and more than triple by 2050, posing the read more »

According to experts women of today are weighing themselves down with so much guilt it eclipses almost every other emotion, even overtaking ‘stressed’ as the response to ‘how are you?’. Forgot to phone your elderly parents this week? Late to pick up your children from school? Missed your sisters birthday? An increasing number of women read more »

A new campaign launched by Roehampton University is hoping to warn students about the dangers of ‘legal highs’ which could often be even more dangerous than illegal drugs. At the launch of the Crazy Chemist campaign, crime prevention minister James Brokenshire warned that the market for these drugs is changing and despite the fact many read more »

The horse sedative ketamine has recently been at the centre various clinical trials which have revealed benefits to depression within as little as 40 minutes. Two small scale studies found that 70 percent of patients with bipolar disorder, an illness characterised by extreme highs and lows, responded positively to the drug, with the effects lasting read more »

A new study has found that parents risk of depression is highest in their child’s first year, reports BBC News. The study included almost 87,000 couples from the UK and involved following their medical records from when they had their child to when their child turned 12. During that period the researchers saw 39 percent read more »

An audit recently conducted by the Royal College of Physicians looking into care and services for those with incontinence issues has found that many in the UK are suffering as a result of poor quality care. The audit examined cases of over 18,000 people with incontinence and concluded that many services often did not meet read more »