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The age of anxiety: How can a growing problem have no solution?

Anxiety is like pollution; it's everywhere but can be fairly easy to ignore writes Adam Langley

Encouraging patients with COPD to stop smoking

Smoking or exposure to tobacco smoke is a risk factor for COPD exacerbation explains Darush Attar-Zadeh

We need to keep up momentum

Nursing in general practice has developed enormously over the last three decades, writes Crystal Oldman

Childhood obesity strategy is a 'weak' plan

Targeted training will be available for health visitors and school nurses to tackle childhood obesity according to the new childhood obesity strategy released by Public Health England (PHE)

Grants awarded to global midwifery projects

Three midwives have won awards to carry out research into global midwifery issues and community midwifery

Tackling obesity in children between the ages of five and 11

Poor weight management in childhood can lead to lifelong health problems, writes Louise Cremonesini

Top 10 questions: Tick-borne encephalitis

Margaret Umeed looks at what should be considered when advising travellers about this condition

Caring for patients with complex needs in Rome

Sue Nightingale shares how she used her nursing skills to accompany sick and disabled people on a trip to Rome

Lead nurses cast concerns over health visiting service

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

Keeping mental health out of prisons

Many offenders may be better off in care not custody, writes Alex Turnbull

Nursing across borders

Nursing and midwifery is high on the World Health Organization's (WHO) agenda, writes Howard Catton

Devon community hospitals face closure

​Plans to consult on local community health services in Devon could mean the closure of clinical hospitals in the area.

UK medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use

Suneeta Kochhar outlines changes to contraceptive advice for women with varying medical conditions

The PrEP dilemma - risk and reward

Mike Shallcross contemplates the implications of the PrEP drug for HIV

Petition urges government to tackle 'breaking point' in district nursing

A petition has been started urging the government to tackle the district nursing shortage

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