December Coverage 2007
19 December 07 Western Mail
How a personal touch could fight dementia
Photographers and other personal mementoes may help people with dementia as much as some drug therapy, researchers believe. More than 36,500 people across Wales have dementia, a figure expected to soar by 30% to 48,000 within the next 15 years. [more]
19 December 07 Medical News Today
Reminiscence groups for dementia assessed, UK
New research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research's Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme is investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of 'reminiscence groups' for helping people with dementia and their carers. [more]
18 December 07 News Wales
Wales leads lost memory study
Professor Bob Woods of Bangor University School of Psychology is to lead a major new research project investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of reminiscence groups for helping people with dementia and their carers. [more]
17 December 07 Medical News Today
Research evaluates newborn screening test, UK
New research commissioned by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, a programme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), is investigating whether the use of pulse oximetry as a screening test for congenital heart disease, could help save the lives of more newborn babies. [more]
16 December 07 Sunday Herald
CT scan plan to combat cancer
THE NHS is to investigate whether a screening programme for lung cancer using CT scans should be introduced in the UK. The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme is commissioning a study on the use of a type of sophisticated X-ray - known as low-dose spiral computerised tomography (CT) - to detect tumours in the lungs. [more]
14 December 07 BMJ
Regulation of drugs for children in Europe
Over the past 10 years, studies have shown widespread use of unlicensed and off-label drugs to treat children in hospital and in the community. [more]
8 December 07 The Lancet
Screening for diabetes and prediabetes
The Health Technology Assessment report by Norman Waugh and colleagues, on screening for type 2 diabetes challenges the health sector, and primary care in particular, to be more proactive in the detection and treatment of both diabetes and prediabetes. [more]
7 December 07 BMJ
Advice to use topical or oral ibuprofen for chronic knee pain in older people: randomised controlled trial and patient preference study
Objective: To determine whether older patients with chronic knee pain should be advised to use topical or oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). [more]
7 December 07 BMJ
Influences on older people's decision making regarding choice of topical or oral NSAIDs for knee pain: qualitative study
Objective: To explore the factors that influence older people’s decision making regarding use of topical or oral ibuprofen for their knee pain. [more]
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