It can cause significant pain and harm education in adolescents, write Amie Randhawa and Lucy Land
Psychotropic medications seem to increase the risk of a major osteoporotic fracture
People with essential tremor experience uncontrolled movements of their arms and, less commonly, their head, legs and voice
There are now more than twice as many people living with diabetes as there were in 1996, with the NHS spending £9.6 billion each year to treat the condition and its complications
Northern Ireland has become the first UK country to have all its maternity services signed up to a charter dedicated to supporting staff wellbeing in the workplace
The maximum number of midwives a supervisor can support will increased from 15 to 20 under a new system developed by NHS England
Theresa May has promised services will ‘get better’ at spotting sepsis in a bid to prevent 10,000 avoidable deaths each year
NHS staff will receive a pay rise and tuition fees will be scrapped for student nurses and midwives if Labour wins the upcoming general election, according to its latest campaign promise
An exhibition on the ‘rich history’ of community nursing in Britain has been given a £5,000 boost by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant
A potential 13,000 victims of ‘modern slavery’ could be helped by new education resources to help health visitors spot the signs
An online poll asking nurses whether they are willing to strike over restrictions to their pay has received 26,000 responses so far
More black and minority ethnic (BME) nurses are taking up higher-paid positions in the NHS, but they continue to face discrimination according to a report from NHS England
Political parties are being called on to promise investment in the NHS as the date is set for a snap general election
Terminally ill children should have 24-access to care at home, according to NICE in a fresh attempt to ‘get it right’
Nicola Davies discusses the ways nurses can learn from what goes right as well as what goes wrong
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