Eating fast food three times a week may lead to asthma and eczema in children, according to researchers from the University of Auckland.
Healthcare leaders have called for 'desperately needed' detail of how ministers plan to make progress on its reforms to social care funding.
The NHS should go paperless by 2018 to save billions, improve services and help meet the challenges of an ageing population, according to health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Stroke survivors will receive improved follow-up care due to a research tool developed by the Stroke Association and the Greater Manchester Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and...
The demise of the practice nurse lead or adviser role in England would be 'costly and short-sighted', according to research by Independent Nurse's sister title Practice Nursing.
A European Parliament vote on a package of measures to update rules on nurses who move from one European country to another, has been labeled a positive move forward, by nurses' leaders.
The NHS will face a £30 billion funding gap over the next few years that cannot be plugged with traditional efficiency savings, NHS England warned last week.
A meningitis B vaccine called Bexsero has been licensed by the European Commission and will soon be available in the UK
Laboratory-confirmed cases of norovirus fell over the Christmas period, but look set to pick up over the next few weeks and continue to rise until the April, according to The Health Protection Agency.
'Neither competition nor commissioning reform alone' can be relied upon to make the improvements needed to save the NHS from 'treacherous waters' ahead, according to a report from independent health...
Malnutrition is often unrecognised in people with diabetes but community nurses can help educate patients and alert specialists if required, writes Siobhan Hughes
Helping patients to quit smoking involves communicating in a sensitive and
client-centred manner, writes Deborah Duncan
The physical, financial and emotional burden of diabetes is carried by the entire family, not just by the person with diabetes, according to the DAWN2 global survey.
The DH has reported that the NHS achieved ?5.8 billion of savings in 2011-12, virtually all of the forecast total of ?5.9 billion. But there is consensus that service transformation, such as expanding...
A national chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) audit programme for England and Wales has been launched at the British Thoracic Society Winter meeting.
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