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The medicines watchdog, the MHRA, is urging people with diabetes to check their insulin pens.

Some 97% of women think all pregnant women should routinely be offered a reliable test for group B Strep (group B Streptococcus or GBS), according to new data just published.

Air pollution leads to a variety of problems involving reproductive effects including low birth weight, miscarriage, preterm birth, and decreased sperm quality, according to a BMJ report.

Three new medicines have been recommended for approval by the Committee for Medical Products for Human Use (CHMP) in the past month.

The organisation that sets standards of excellence in health and social care, NICE, has called on local authorities and health professionals to do more to help families address the obesity time-bomb in children and young people.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published final guidance recommending ocriplasmin (Jetrea, ThromboGenics) as an option for treating some people with the rare eye condition, vitreomacular traction.

Much more needs to be done to improve UK children's health, and acting early will save taxpayers' money, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) said in an assessment of the state of the health of the nation's children.

The CQC's new hospital inspection programme enters its second phase in January, with 19 acute trusts named in October as the next trusts to be inspected using larger, expert teams that include professional and clinical staff and trained members of the public. These will be the first trusts to be given ratings by the CQC.

Studies in the US have found that overuse of antibiotics has the potential to alter the normal healthy bacteria living on our bodies and cause an overgrowth of fungi and pathologic or bad bacteria, according to the American Society for Clinical Oncology.

Schools in England and Wales will soon be required to ensure pupils with long-term health conditions such as type 1 diabetes, asthma and epilepsy get the support they need.

GPs need to play a stronger role in coordinating care for people with longterm or chronic conditions, according to a new report from The King's Fund.

Rickets is on the rise in children in the UK and a quarter of infants are deficient in Vitamin D, according to Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer (CMO).

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has called for the government to reinstate the child and adolescent psychiatric morbidity survey as a matter of urgency.

In the last decade, patient-centred care, respect for personal autonomy and informed consent have become the bedrock of how healthcare is delivered.

Advances in surgical and anaesthetic techniques, in combination with an ageing population, have contributed to an increasing number of older patients undergoing surgery.