The effective prescribing of these methods of contraception requires counselling to ensure that each individual woman receives the most suitable option, explains Suneeta Kochhar.
Excessive exposure to sun can cause a number of harmful skin conditions. Jean Watkins describes the potential side effects and dangers.
Steve Holmes and Jane Scullion consider how best to address parental worries after their child is diagnosed with asthma.
Patients fast for a variety of reasons, including religion and lifestyle. David Morris considers the best advice for high-risk patients wishing to fast.
Primary care nurses have a crucial public health role in controlling and preventing the spread of tuberculosis, says Surinder Tamne.
Men still have poorer health outcomes than women. Ian Peate discusses how employment status can have a lasting negative impact.
Health inequalities affect patients' lives and outcomes. Gwen Moulster and Jane Iorizzo explain how using a simple framework can improve patient wellbeing.
Jean Watkins describes the various presentations of scabies, its symptoms, complications and treatment.
To mark Diabetes UK Week 2014 Professor Peter Kopelman, Principal of St George's, University of London discusses his work tackling the disease and how researchers at St George's are working to combat...
The earlier a case is flagged to district nurses, the quicker they can influence a patient's care and outcomes. Ursula Holt explains how a simple tool used by carers does just that.
Hearing about the plight of general practice and the high numbers of patients seen daily is now so commonplace it has become merely a fact of how the NHS works today.
Allergy affects almost 50% of children in the UK. It is the most common and growing chronic childhood disorder. Eight per cent of children now have diagnosed food allergy, causing them and their...
The QNI has been running a 'Right Nurse, Right Skills' campaign for the past two years, seeking to influence the planning of an appropriate district nursing workforce to meet the increasingly...
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced steps to encourage investment and speed up the process on developing dementia treatments.
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