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The government has announced new regulations that will make visiting a legal requirement for hospitals and care homes.

The General Medical Council (GMC) is calling for urgent action to retain doctors who are leaving the profession in droves due to a ‘vicious cycle’ of unmanageable workloads and burnout.

Experts are urging governments and health leaders to do more to raise awareness of liver disease before it becomes Europe’s biggest health challenge.

A landmark trial has shown that a faecal transplant can treat advanced liver disease and fight antimicrobial resistance. Pavilion Health Today talks to Dr Lindsey Edwards, co-leader of the study.

The NHS Confederation has praised NHS workers, saying they found a way to go the extra mile to provide essential life and limb care while junior doctors took industrial action.

New research shows a modest causal association between habitual daytime napping and larger total brain volume which could suggest napping slows the rate of brain shrinkage as people age.

Low-dose aspirin use is associated with 20% increased anaemia risk in older adults, according to new research.

A group of doctors have written to NICE to ask for alcohol misuse, which is a known risk factor for falls, to be included in its updated falls guidance.

A high dose of haemodiafiltration has “clear benefits” for kidney failure patients, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

NICE has published a new patient decision aid designed to help patients who take anxiety and insomnia medication to make informed treatment decisions.

The impact of the Covid pandemic on mental health in Europe was “not as substantial as many people had predicted”, according to the author of a new major review of evidence.

Retired doctors can re-join the NHS workforce via a new digital platform to perform outpatient appointments, either virtually or in person, as part of a new government plan to reduce waiting lists.

A new toolkit to improve repeat prescriptions in primary care is set to be produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of GPs.

Ten specialist obesity clinics for children and young people are set to open across England under new plans to tackle the obesity crisis.

New guidance published by NICE suggests that patients with invasive breast cancer having surgery should attend radiotherapy appointments over the course of one week rather than three.