Poor weight management in childhood can lead to lifelong health problems, writes Louise Cremonesini
Margaret Umeed looks at what should be considered when advising travellers about this condition
Sue Nightingale shares how she used her nursing skills to accompany sick and disabled people on a trip to Rome
Cuts to local authority budget cuts could reverse the progress made by the health visitor implementation plan, a group of leading health figures said in an open letter to The Times
Many offenders may be better off in care not custody, writes Alex Turnbull
Nursing and midwifery is high on the World Health Organization's (WHO) agenda, writes Howard Catton
Plans to consult on local community health services in Devon could mean the closure of clinical hospitals in the area.
Suneeta Kochhar outlines changes to contraceptive advice for women with varying medical conditions
Mike Shallcross contemplates the implications of the PrEP drug for HIV
A petition has been started urging the government to tackle the district nursing shortage
Non-patient facing nurses concerned about providing evidence for their revalidation portolios may be reassured by a new briefing paper
Almost 90% of primary care staff, including practice nurses and GPs, find their work stressful according to new research by Mind
More than 1.5 million nurses records from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have been digitsed by family history website Ancestry
The NICE Centre for Guidelines is looking for community nurses and senior level nursing professionals to join the expert panel
On 2 August the high court ruled that NHS England had acted unlawfully in removing PrEP, the HIV prevention drug, from its commissioning process in March
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