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Breast cancer screening is effective and the benefits outweigh potential risks, experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have said.

A final-year design student from Brunel University London has come up with a streamlined device which aims to vastly improve patients' self-management of the disease.

After five years of research involving cancer diagnosis experts from six UK universities, researchers have made a number of recommendations on how the UK can improve the early diagnosis of cancer.

Urgent action is critical to lessening the potential impact of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) according to an expert report launched at the start of Heart Rhythm Week (1-7 June 2015). 

A study analysing the Finnish homicide and prescription drug databases discovered that the use of certain drugs that affect the central nervous system are associated with an increased risk of committing a homicide.

Many GPs are finding it difficult to meet the needs of patients with existing resources due to an increase in the volume and complexity of consultations, a new report into GP commissioning and patient choice has revealed.

The use of AKT inhibitors in combination with radiotherapy could provide a breakthrough in the fight against cancer, a new report published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has claimed.

Helping older people who experience mental ill health to give up smoking has positive health benefits and does not, as previously thought, worsen depression, new research has found.

A fifty-fold between-country difference in rates of paracetamol-induced acute liver failure that leads to liver transplant (ALFT) has been revealed by a study that compared patient data from seven countries.

The Government is aiming for all adults to have online access to their health and social care records by 2020, but researchers from the Institute of Child Health, QMUL and the University of Bristol are concerned about the potential for unintended harm.

With holiday season fast approaching, the author looks at current thinking and practice around travel vaccinations

In the article the authors look at how to investigate patients with the finding of sterile pyuria and when to refer.

Bell's palsy can be a frightening condition for the patient, coming on rapidly resulting in noticeable facial paralysis. However, although most people will make a full recovery, the GP still has an active role in supporting the patient

New guidelines from NICE on cancer referral are due imminently. Here, Dr Steven Beaven and Dr Cathy Burton look at the need for change

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children in the UK. In this article, the authors look at the diagnostic challenges presented by asthma.