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2025

Vitamin D supplementation: an update

March 2025

2024

Prescribing testosterone in ageing males

November 2024

Clinical Audit: Safe and effective use of warfarin

July 2024

Clinical Audit - Identifying inappropriate anticholinergic medicine prescribing

June 2024

Anticholinergic burden in older people

March 2024

2023

Osteoarthritis: a focus on exercise

March 2023

2020

National report: The use of antipsychotic medicines in older people

May 2020

Understanding the role of palliative care for people with advanced dementia

April 2020

Symptom management in palliative dementia care

April 2020

Managing the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

April 2020

Recognising and managing early dementia

February 2020

Age-related cognitive decline: prevention and future planning

February 2020

2019

Dialling back treatment intensity for older people with type 2 diabetes

May 2019

Prescribing for a trial period: when and how?

February 2019

Managing constipation in older people

February 2019

Stopping proton pump inhibitors in older people

January 2019

Bisphosphonates: addressing the duration conundrum

January 2019

2018

Stopping medicines in older people: the flip side of the prescribing equation

December 2018

Frailty in older people: a discussion

November 2018

News item: Discussion on Zostavax

April 2018

Zostavax vaccine: now fully subsidised

March 2018

Managing pain in osteoarthritis: focus on the person

January 2018

2016

Polypharmacy Update

July 2016

Age-related macular degeneration: what should a general practitioner know?

February 2016

Testosterone use in older males

February 2016

2015

Age-related macular degeneration – what should a General Practitioner know?

September 2015

Research Update: Testosterone use and cardiovascular risk in older males

September 2015

Prescribing testosterone in ageing males: why you shouldn’t read this article

August 2015

“Steady as she goes”: helping older people Stay Independent

August 2015

A pragmatic guide to asymptomatic bacteriuria and testing for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in people aged over 65 years

July 2015

Prevention is better than cure: five tips for keeping older people healthy and out of hospital during winter

June 2015

Stand up to falls - April Falls month and the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s reducing harm from falls campaign

April 2015

The Year in Review - What did we learn in 2014?

February 2015

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