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Children with cancer are being denied new, potentially life-saving drugs, because EU rules are allowing companies to trial some drugs only in adults, leading cancer experts warn.

Young arthritis sufferers make treatment decisions based on how the treatment will affect their appearance, their social life and their physical and mental well-being, according to research. 

Increasing numbers of parents are seeking overseas medical support for their disabled children, according to recent research by Caudwell Children, the national charity providing emotional and practical support for disabled children.

People who suffer from Pernicious Anaemia (PA) could face a long wait for vital vitamin injections due to a manufacturing backlog. 

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.…

A pot of yoghurt a day may help keep diabetes away, new research suggests. 

Google has developed a smart contact lens which uses chips and sensors the size of glitter to monitor the glucose levels of diabetes sufferers.

Women's health specialist Louise Newson continues her feature on the management of vulvovaginal infections in general practice.

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…

NICE quality standards for managing depression in children and young people included a call for GPs to have a more pivotal role in setting affected patients on the care pathway.

In his continuing series on the use of technology in primary care, Harry Brown looks at the potential value of text messaging.

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…

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…

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.…

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…