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Patients with low blood levels of vitamin D are at increased risk of death and serious complications after noncardiac surgery, according to a study in American journal Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Hospitals and health services are facing a growing tide of written complaints from dissatisfied patients and relatives, according to Doctors.net.uk.

Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) came into force in April 2009 as an amendment to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, in order to safeguard people in hospitals and care homes that are deprived of their liberty.

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.