Geriatric medicine has an encyclopaedic sweep, reflecting the complexity of both the ageing process and of our patient group. Keeping up with, and making sense of, the relevant scientific literature is challenging, especially as ageing has increased in prominence as a focus of research across many branches of the sciences and the humanities. This review of research published in 2012 in generali...

As the Royal College of Nursing Congress drew to a close in Harrogate members were in no doubt their national pay campaign had gathered momentum. It was no longer just about a 3 per cent pay rise for every nurse in the country, but about the future of the NHS itself.

Acral melanoma is commonly diagnosed in people of color and has worse prognosis than cutaneous melanoma, even when controlling for tumor stage. Here, we seek to assess differences mutational profiles acral melanomas, which could potentially impact treatment outcomes. Mutational 1273 patients (118 1155 cutaneous) from the American Association Cancer Research Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia I...