January 2013

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising in the UK. The number of people with diabetes recorded on practice…

The NHS Health Check programme aims to help prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease. Everyone…

A quarter of all new patients diagnosed with coeliac disease are in their seventh decade or older. Coeliac disease…

Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most frequent heart valve disease in developed countries and prevalence sharply…

The coalition Government's announcement last year that it planned to radically change the NHS came as a major…

NICE was established by the former Health Minister, Frank Dobson in 1999. Its website quotes its remit as €œan…

Pacemaker therapy has become an important therapeutic option for patients with heart rhythm conditions worldwide.…

NICE was heavily criticised when it ruled that patients with rheumatoid arthritis who had failed on one TNF-…

There is a high prevalence of anaemia in the elderly population. Anaemia signifies an underlying disease and is…

Influenza is a common respiratory disease. It is spread by the respiratory route only by droplet spread and affects…