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25/01/2017 - 09:44
New research conducted at Newcastle Freeman Hospital and led by the University of Liverpool could see patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), a rare blood cancer, live longer without the side-effects of drugs.
25/01/2017 - 09:22
Public Health England (PHE) has urged more adults over 40 to have their blood pressure measured as part of the NHS Health Check, to help identify issues at an early stage.
24/01/2017 - 15:49
Doctors at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield are pioneering the use of a compact MRI scanner targeted at imaging the brains of premature babies.
23/01/2017 - 14:27
Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) have warned that widespread moderate and high air pollution levels are currently being measured across many parts of the UK due to still and foggy weather conditions.
23/01/2017 - 11:44
New figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives have revealed that NHS Lanarkshire spent £1,565 to cover a single nursing shift in 2015-16.
23/01/2017 - 10:26
The BHF is calling on people in the Midlands to get back on their bikes, after research carried out by the charity found that one in eight of people do not know how to ride a bike.
23/01/2017 - 10:09
A new app, Babee on Board, has launched in the UK, aimed at helping pregnant women acquire seats on public transport.
23/01/2017 - 09:46
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned that starchy foods such as bread, chips and potatoes should not be browned too much when cooked to reduce the likelihood of contributing towards our risk of cancer.
23/01/2017 - 09:29
Scientists at Cardiff University have launched a bid to create a smart patch designed to detect the early onset of osteoarthritis in patients’ knees.
20/01/2017 - 15:12
A petition has been launched for the £90 million fine handed to Pfizer and Flynn Pharma to be put back into the NHS.
20/01/2017 - 11:45
Patients who are overweight are less likely to die in hospital after a heart operation than those who are a healthy weight.
20/01/2017 - 11:20
Online parking place YourParkingSpace.co.uk has revealed that visitors to hospitals were hit with an estimated £13.3 million in parking fines last
20/01/2017 - 10:14
An investigation by the HSJ has revealed that almost every NHS acute hospital in England is failing to meet its own nurse staffing targets.
20/01/2017 - 10:03
Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones has praised the early success of a recruitment campaign aimed at boosting the number of GPs in Wales.
20/01/2017 - 09:43
New scanning equipment has provided the biggest leap in decades for the diagnoses of prostate cancer, a trial in the Lancet has shown.
19/01/2017 - 10:46
The North West Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has been rated as ‘requires improvement' by inspectors at the the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
19/01/2017 - 10:29
Public Health England (PHE), working in partnership with TB Alert and NHS England, have published a new resource for TB Control Boards to help tackle tuberculosis (TB) in hard to reach communities.
19/01/2017 - 10:03
Research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has shown that women who lead a sedentary lifestyle have faster-ageing cells than those who exercise every day.
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