Family Medicine

New research from Imperial College London and The Institute of Cancer Research, London has identified a genetic 'switch' in breast cancer cells that could provide new avenues for helping treat breast cancer that returns and spreads around…

NHS advice will be offered online to people with type 2 diabetes to help them manage their health and wellbeing independently, potentially preventing the need for extra medical attention or the condition becoming worse.

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Children from disadvantaged backgrounds and certain ethnic minority backgrounds, including from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds, have lower levels of vigorous physical activity, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Childhood obesity remains a challenge for general practice, despite government-led campaigns focussing on the issue. In this article, Dr Jessica Garner looks at what can be accomplished in practice.

An end to the standard 10-minute GP consultation to allow family doctors to spend more time with patients with complex needs is core to the Royal College of GPs' vision for the future of general practice.

Sepsis warning symptoms and sepsis management will be the subject of a debate today at the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) annual Congress in Liverpool where nurses will call for a nationwide rollout of a new system to enable signs of…

People who suffer a stroke caused by a brain haemorrhage can take common medicines without raising their risk of another stroke, a major clinical trial has found.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) wants to examine the quality of care and safeguarding of every person who is being held in segregation in mental health wards for children and young people and wards for people with a learning disability or…

Heart attacks among adults younger than 50 years of age are on the rise with the proportion of very young people increasing by 2% each year for the last 10 years, according to a team of investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

There is a disproportionate increase in youth suicide rates for females relative to males, particularly in younger youth aged 10-14 years, according to a new report that describes youth suicide trends in the US from 1975 to 2016.

Women who breastfed their babies are less likely to develop heart disease later in life and the protective effect is increased in women who breastfed for longer periods of time, according to findings from the European Society of…

Lower doses of chemotherapy were as effective at controlling disease for elderly or frail patients with advanced cancer of the stomach or oesophagus and spared them less diarrhoea and lethargy side effects.

A new drug that inhibits neonatal seizures in rodent models could open up new avenues for the treatment of epilepsy in human newborns. Neonates are the most vulnerable population to seizures but there is still no effective medication for…

Fitness apps could be prescribed by clinicians to help patients recovering from cancer increase their physical activity levels, according to new research.