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Cancer Research UK has tripled its investment in pancreatic cancer, one of the hardest cancers to treat, since launching its research strategy in 2014 according to new figures published today.

Higher education is associated with a reduced risk of developing heart failure after a heart attack, reports a study in more than 70 000 patients published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Children and adults with conditions such as psychosis, depression and anxiety will be among the first to benefit from improved services as work starts on a major transformation programme for mental health care.

The fight against obesity is set to have cost councils more than half a billion pounds since taking over public health from the NHS three years ago.

The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) has cautiously welcomed a new Quality Standard by NICE on the diagnosis of diabetes in children, saying the move to merge the diagnosis of type 1 and type 2 diabetes removes the €œthe not insignificant challenge€ of making a definitive diagnosis, but arguing for better joined-up working in the health service to make such a guideline workable.

Experts at the International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases have warned that people still need to be vigilant to halt the spread of Zika, in the wake of news that the disease spends longer in the body than first thought. 

The results of a three-year study involving more than 7,000 children could help GPs and nurses to decide from which children a urine sample should be collected and help to improve diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTI).

People who show signs of sepsis should be treated with the same urgency as those with suspected heart attacks the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has reviewed how well different health and care services work together to support the needs of older people in England.

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted 5 new medicines for routine use in NHS Scotland. Two of these medicines, used to treat different types of lung cancer, were accepted through the Patient and Clinician Engagement (PACE) process, for medicines that treat end of life and very rare conditions.

Schools, social workers, police and NHS staff are inadvertently re-traumatising vulnerable children, because of fundamental misunderstandings about their behaviour, according to a new report.

Millions of older people are putting off difficult conversations about ageing until times of crisis or not having them at all, according to new research from Independent Age, the older people's charity.

The King's Fund is calling on the government to review its priorities for the NHS and be honest with the public about what the health service can deliver with its budget in a new briefing published today.

The National Council for Palliative has given a broad welcome to the Government's response to What's Important to Me: a review of choice in end of life care (€œthe Choice Review€), but has raised concerns about some of the details.

NICE has recommended egarelix (Firmagon) for a group of men with advanced hormone-dependent prostate cancer €“ those with spinal metastases.