A dramatic increase in the number of cases of mumps has led to a fresh appeal from Public Health England (PHE) to the public to make sure they have been vaccinated for MMR
The public must be educated on the signs of sepsis to save thousands of lives lost each year, the RCN has said
The dangers of nitrous oxide must be be emphasised to the public, as figures reveal that half a million youngsters have tried the drug in the last year
The number of district nurses working in the NHS has dropped by almost 43% in England alone in the last ten years, according to a new report by the QNI and the RCN
Why, in this high-tech era, are people queueing in the rain for a GP appointment?
The Government must end the shortage of nurses in England by returning the £1 billion it took from nursing education, Dame Donna Kinnair, the new RCN chief executive said in her first speech to the...
Campaigners are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing the acne treatment Roaccutane, after the drug was linked to suicides
More young people under 50 are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, studies of the condition have found
New research has strongly recommended that the UK adopt a ‘no jab, no school policy’ on MMR
About 30% of areas now have no residential care beds for elderly people, creating ‘care deserts’, an analysis carried out for Age UK indicates
A new £1.9 million fund to support initiatives aiming to improve the health of homeless people has been launched by PHE
Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are being prescribed thyroid drugs unnecessarily, according to research published in the BMJ
New guidance from NICE on prostate cancer has recommended active surveillance for the first time, for men with the low-risk localised form of the disease
An observational study of 1000 gay couples in the Lancet showed that HIV-positive patients treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART), reduced their risk of passing the virus on to zero. Is this the...
Why we must learn to talk about preparing for death, and its implications
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