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Children aged 6-17 could benefit from tiotropium Respimat if the drug is added to maintenance asthma therapy, according to findings from a Phase 3 clinical trial.

Researchers at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department at UCL combined the results of previous studies, reviewing 4,642 records of clinicians' predictions regarding survival of patients approaching the ends of their lives. The study revealed wide variation in errors, ranging from an underestimate of 86 days to an overestimate of 93 days.

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has recommended the use of paliperidone palmitate 3-monthly injection (Trevicta) for use in NHS Scotland without restriction for the maintenance treatment of schizophrenia.

One in four people with diabetes, an estimated 940,000, are unaware of their condition according to a new Diabetes Prevalence Model, produced by the Public Health England (PHE) National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network (NCVIN).

The European Commission (EC) and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have granted Orphan Drug Designation to nintedanib for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), including the associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD). 

Drug poisoning is the fourth most common cause of death in people aged 15-49, new data released by the Office for National Statistics have revealed.

Artificial intelligence could improve the interpretation of lung function tests for the diagnosis of long-term lung diseases, according to a new study.

Results presented at ESC Congress 2016 in Rome, and published online in The Lancet support the use of edoxaban (Lixiana) in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing cardioversion, it has been announced.

Results from the global phase 3b ENSURE-AF study of 2,199 patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) undergoing electrical cardioversion were presented recently at the ESC Congress 2016 in Rome, and published online in The Lancet. 

A new Cochrane Review published in the Cochrane Library has found evidence from randomized trials that taking an oral vitamin D supplement in addition to standard asthma medication is likely to reduce severe asthma attacks.

Scientists have discovered that oesophageal cancer can be classified into three different subtypes, paving the way for testing targeted treatments tailored to patients' disease for the first time.

A review at a GP practice of patients potentially at high-risk of certain conditions saw more than 500 patients added to their QOF clinical register, Interface Clinical Services, which conducted the review, has revealed.

Researchers have developed a technique that will help GPs identify which children with coughs and respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are most at risk of future hospitalisation.

Coeliac UK, the national charity for people with coeliac disease, has announced the publication of an innovative project using community pharmacies to assist in finding patients with undiagnosed coeliac disease. The findings indicate that if the approach was embraced by the NHS, it could speed up diagnosis and lift low diagnosis rates by targeting those suffering the most common symptoms of coeliac disease for testing.

Using community pharmacies to assist in finding patients with undiagnosed coeliac disease could help improve detection and diagnosis, a pilot study by Coeliac UK has revealed.