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‘Apparent increase in smoking’ among affluent women under 45

Researchers at UCL have a found a rise in smoking rates among middle class and wealthier women under the age of 45 in England

Hope of closure for victims of contaminated blood scandal as inquiry prepares to publish final report

Survivors of the contaminated blood scandal in the 1970s and 80s are hoping to get some answers and redress as the public inquiry publishes its final report next month

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Enhancing men’s health: promoting screening programmes

Ian Peate looks at how screening programmes can improve diagnosis rates for men

Common type-2 diabetes test may underestimate risk for thousands of South Asian people in the UK

Researchers at Queen Mary University found that the HbA1c test may give falsely lower blood sugar levels in South Asian people, leading to delayed diagnosis

England’s Chief Nursing Officer to retire ‘later this year’

Health leaders across the country have responded to Dame Ruth May’s announcement, expressing gratitude for her work as a CNO

Community rectal pathology clinics could save the NHS millions

Ammara Hughes looks at a new model of care for rectal medicine

Cancer Research UK awards Oxford University £9m to boost cancer research

Cancer Research UK will provide funding to the University of Oxford over the next five years to train early-career clinician scientists to be involved in cancer research.

NHS booking system to open for spring COVID-19 vaccinations

The NHS national booking system will open for spring Covid-19 vaccination bookings on 15 April, with those eligible able to book appointments from the following week.

Treatment of gender-questioning children based on ‘remarkably weak evidence’, finds landmark report

'For most young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their gender-related distress. For those young people for whom a medical pathway is clinically indicated, it is not enough...

NHS expands ‘one-hour’ liver testing to help detect and eliminate Hep C

New liver scanning and portable testing units will be deployed in a range of communities where patients are at high risk of contracting the infection

Artificial Pancreas – Hybrid Closed Loop: an impending revolution

Navya Basavaraju, Annamarie Jones, and Probal K Moulik detail the latest breakthrough in diabetes management

NHS MMR catch up campaign successfully boosts uptake

New operational figures published by NHS England show the success of the MMR catch-up campaign, with tens of thousands more vaccinations delivered in the first three months of this year compared to...

Travel-associated infections approaching pre-pandemic levels

Mosquito-borne infections are returning to pre-pandemic levels, the UKHSA has warned

Diabetes: NHS rolls out artificial pancreas in world first move

Tens of thousands of children and adults living with type 1 diabetes across England are set to receive an ‘artificial pancreas’ in a world-first initiative being rolled out by the NHS.

Breathing life into the Sonnet report

Kathy Oxtoby looks at the Sonnet report’s recommendations for the development of general practice

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