Wales
Number of Britons to reach 100 years of age hits 10,000
The number of people who have reached the age of 100 has broken the 10,000 barrier for the first time, f
Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001
Ian N Gregory
11 September, 2009
No change in health gap from 1900
New stem cell treatment 'being used by patients to avoid hip replacements'
British scientists have developed a stem cell technique which is being used by patients to avoid hip replacements, in a major medical breakthrough.
NHS is still failing older minority ethnic patients who are mentally ill
The UK NHS is still failing older ethnic minority patients who are mentally ill, concludes a report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Aneurysm screening study boost
A programme to screen 65-year-old men in England for a potentially fatal blood vessel condition could halve deaths, analysis shows.
Inheritance levy planned for long-term care of the elderly
People in England and Wales could pay a one-off "inheritance levy" of up to £12,000 in return for free long-term care in
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Wales 2009
Peter Kenway, Guy Palmer and Tom MacInnes
4 June, 2009
A quarter of stroke patients are still not treated in a stroke unit
Zosia Kmietowicz
23 April, 2009
National Audit of the Organisation of Services for Falls and Bone Health of Older People
Report prepared by Dr Finbarr C Martin
25 March, 2009
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