Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, affecting over half of all dementia sufferers. Deteriorating memory can be the first sign of a treatable disease. Don't accept the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease before it has been ... [... more]
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Angina pectoris (chest pain)
Angina pectoris derives from Latin and translates as 'tight chest'. It feels like an oppressive, heavy, crushing pain or a constricting feeling in the centre of the chest behind the breast bone (sternum) or on the left side of the front of the ... [... more]
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Arthritis
Arthritis simply means a painful condition of the joints. There are different types of the disease - many inflammatory and others more degenerative in nature. Rheumatoid arthritis often starts with pain in the joints of the hands, especially in ... [... more]
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Dementia
Dementia is an illness of the brain. When someone has dementia, brain cells are damaged and die faster than they would normally. Losing brain cells means that the brain does not work as well as it should, and gradually people lose the ability to ... [... more]
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Multi-infarct dementia
Multi-infarct dementia is a form of dementia caused by large numbers of small blood clots (emboli) in the brain that starve the brain cells of oxygen. This disease mainly affects elderly people with arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). ... [... more]
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Gout (podagra or uric acid)
Gout, otherwise known as podagra or uric acid arthropathy is a rheumatic complaint, that usually attacks a single joint at a time. The disease has a preference for the big toe of middle-aged men - it swells, turns red and becomes sore. The ... [... more]
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Huntington's disease
Huntington's disease (HD) was described by George Huntington (1850-1916) who was born in Long Island, New York. He described this disorder in his only known written article called 'on chorea'. Dr Linda Appai-Kubi, King's College Hospital and ... [... more]
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Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a disease affecting the joints and affects almost everybody as they get older. Around 8 out of 10 people over the age of 50 are affected. Mr Dai Rees, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and Dr John Pillinger, GP The process starts ... [... more]
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disease of the nervous system associated with trembling of the arms and legs, stiffness and rigidity of the muscles and slowness of movement (bradykinesia). Dr G Hotton, King's College and Lewisham Hospitals, ... [... more]
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Coping with Parkinson's disease
With Parkinson's, it's important to keep yourself as physically and mentally active as possible. In this way, mind and body functions can be maintained to the greatest possible degree. For the mind, frequent, stimulating interaction with ... [... more]
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Nocturia (night-time urination)
Nocturia - having to get up during the night to go to the toilet - is more likely to occur as people get older. The problem is extremely common among older men because it can be caused by an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia). The ... [... more]
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Urodynamics
Urodynamics is the investigation of the function of the lower urinary tract - the bladder and urethra - using physical measurements such as urine pressure and flow rate as well as clinical assessment. The assessment begins with a medical history ... [... more]
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