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Abraxane has received a preliminary appraisal recommendation from the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group in combination with gemcitabine, for use within NHS Wales in a restricted group of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. 

There is a 'huge unmet need' for cancer patients with depression, due to a focus on physical symptoms at the expense of good mental healthcare, researchers have said.

Animal studies have suggested botox injections may help fight cancer while nerves cause stomach cancer growth.

Researchers have suggested there is poor evidence to support screening and isolating infected patients as an effective precaution against hospital superbugs.

GP practices providing 'inadequate' care will be given improvement deadlines or face potential closure under a new system of' special measures' introduced by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

The first new schizophrenia treatment in seven years has been made available in the UK after the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the use of Latuda (lurasidone), a new once-daily oral treatment in adults.

Health Minister Norman Lamb has described youth mental health services as €œstuck in the dark ages€ and to modernise the provision of psychiatric help for children by launching a new taskforce.

Up to 5,000 family doctors are prevented by needless red tape from returning to the GP workforce, according to new research.

A study by Durham University suggests that 89% of England's population live within a 20-minute walk of a pharmacy. In deprived areas, the proportion was nearly 100%.

Scientists from the University of California have used advanced scanning techniques to find that male brains grow more quickly than those of female infants.

Computer games could help in treating older people with depression who haven't responded to antidepressant drugs or other treatments for the disorder, according to a small-scale US study.

Digital editor Richard Hook highlights the importance of the Premier League's new concussion ruling and argues why it needs to be extended to cover contact sports at all levels.

More than 220,000 adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Scotland, will now also be able to access dapagliflozin through NHS Scotland as part of a triple therapy regimen with metformin and sulphonylurea.

Where you live and the level of deprivation can affect your efforts to lose weight, according to new research which found that obesity was most common among older, poor people.

Patients are facing long delays for surgical treatment because clinical commissioning groups are ignoring evidence-based guidance on when to provide surgery, according to a new report.