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Researchers in the UK report that non-restorative sleep is the strongest, independent predictor of widespread pain onset among adults over the age of 50.
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Sir Martin Narey's recent report for the Education Secretary put forward radical proposals for the reform of the education of children's social workers and suggested there is too much variability in the quality of social work education.…
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A pot of yoghurt a day may help keep diabetes away, new research suggests. 
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Google has developed a smart contact lens which uses chips and sensors the size of glitter to monitor the glucose levels of diabetes sufferers.
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In the final article of this two-part feature on the assessment and management of childhood asthma, the authors explain how a flexible approach to treatment will provide optimum disease control. Part 1, which focused on diagnosis, was…
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It's been a couple of weeks since the Serious Case Review was published on the circumstances leading to the terrible deaths of the Philpott children in a fire in Derby. Here, CareKnowledge editor Jim Kennedy considers the real questions…
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A recent paper indicates that the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist degarelix  may halve the relative risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and death in men with pre-existing CV disease (CVD). 
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The overall prevalence of fungal nail infections is about 6-8% in UK. Fungal infections of the fingernails are less common than toenail infections. Dr Elisabeth Higgins, Consultant dermatologist at King's College Hospital, London, answers a…
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In the first of a major series looking at the evolving role of general practice within the cancer patient journey, specialist GPs Steven Beaven and Bridget Gwynne set the scene with an overview of cancer from a primary care perspective.…
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Young women who smoke and have been smoking a pack a day for a decade or more have a significantly increased risk of developing the most common type of breast cancer. That is the finding of an analysis published early online in Cancer, a…
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