Yesterday, Monday 8 January, Jeremy Hunt MP was appointed as Health and Social Care Secretary as part of a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Pfizer has announced that it will be ending its neuroscience discovery and early development efforts, an area which includes research into drug development for Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s Society volunteer, Barbara Woodward-Carlton, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours.

New research suggests that eating one or two servings per day of green, leafy vegetables may slow down the memory and thinking decline associated with ageing.

The data has been published as part of an expansion of the monthly Recorded Dementia Diagnoses report, and accounts for figures submitted by 98.8% of GPs in England.

Responses to a Freedom of Information request to local authorities have revealed a worrying postcode lottery of care, Royal London has revealed.