Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Wearing health and fitness tracking devices can have a negative effect on children of secondary school age and make them feel extra pressure and stress, resea
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People who hear voices may benefit from recording their experiences in a diary, which is a positive coping strategy, researchers say.
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A computer algorithm can identify patients at risk of colorectal cancer by checking their records, reducing the need for invasive tests to detect it.
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People with dementia receive little specialist support at the end of their life despite high levels of need, and nursing home staff need more support from ext
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The health risks from modern life such as air pollution and smoking are higher than low-level radiation exposure received in medical scans, a study has found.
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Teenagers who lack a sense of belonging to social groups such as in their family, with friends or at school are more likely to have mental health problems, re
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Women with excessive abdominal fat are at risk of developing a type of breast cancer that is harder to treat compared with those who have general obesity or w
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Staff at GP surgeries are facing increasing levels of violence, harassment and threatening behaviour, an investigation has found, a rise blamed on the service
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NHS respiratory nurses are unable to spend long enough with patients, have to work extra hours, and more than half could retire in the next decade, researcher
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People who have less rapid eye movement (REM) – the stage when dreaming occurs – during sleep may be at greater risk of dementia, a study shows.
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Exercise could help women cope with postnatal depression and should be considered instead of antidepressants and psychological therapies, a study suggests.
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Researchers are urging a rethink over the term ‘metabolically healthy obesity’ after linking it with increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Eating just three or four servings of fruit, vegetables and legumes per day may benefit health and mortality as much as the five portions widely recommended in dietary guidelines, a study suggests.
State school students are likely to outperform privately educated students in medical school and are twice as likely to graduate at the top of the class, a study shows.
Mindfulness could help heavy drinkers start to cut back on alcohol consumption, according to researchers who used brief audio recordings to train drinkers in such strategies.
Children who skip breakfast regularly may not be consuming the daily amounts of key nutrients for growth and development recommended by the UK government.
A drug commonly used to treat patients with obesity or type 2 diabetes could be used as a new way to lower brain pressure, for which treatments are desperately needed, researchers say.
Tiny particles of carbon in traffic fumes can damage the immune system’s ability to kill viruses and bacteria, making people more vulnerable to infection, a new study says.
