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A new study has found that non-judgemental and personalised lifestyle modification plans improve the physical and mental health of people living with obesity.

A multi-million pound charitable fund has been set up to examine how improvements to the design and construction of our towns and cities can help to address health inequalities and support "levelling up" across the UK's regions.

Covid-19 is now endemic, and will clearly be with us for a while yet. Dr Edin Lakasing asks does the perfect storm of over-cautious attitudes, bureaucracy, silo working and manpower shortages mean that we are poorly placed to move out of 'medical lockdown'?

Boris Johnson announced on Monday (14^th June) that the easing of Covid-19 restrictions will be pushed back from the 21^st June, with a new target date of the 19^th July. With many areas of the hospitality sector on their knees, many will be asking if, and why, it was necessary to delay this step forward.

Cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, smoking, obesity, heart disease and diabetes are associated with worse outcomes in patients with Covid-19 but are potentially modifiable, according to new research.

A team of researchers and clinicians from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore (NP), and the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) have invented a tool which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose cardiovascular diseases.

More than a third of people caring unpaid for family members or friends feel unable to manage their caring role and 72% of carers have not had any breaks from their caring role during the pandemic.

NICE has recommended that eligible men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland should have access to enzalutamide (Xtandi).

A new study published in BMJ Prevention and Health has found that plant-based and pescatarian diets may help lower the odds of developing moderate to severe Covid-19 infection.

This year's annual European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Congress was held virtually between the 2^nd and 5^th of June and bought together doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, and people with arthritis or rheumatism to present on a range of topics in the field of rheumatology.

The first new treatment for Alzheimer's disease for nearly 20 years has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in USA. However, it has not yet approved in UK.

Cancer can take an enormous emotional toll on older people's mental health. This article reports on what practitioners - whatever their specialty - can do to support them.

According to a survey by the Taskforce for Lung Health, 95% of people living with lung disease found the services offered by community pharmacies to be valuable, essential or something they "could not live without".

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic (April 2020), two French studies (shared as preprints before formal peer review) suggested that nicotine might have a protective effect against Covid-19.

As part of a new rehabilitation technique, patients recovering from Covid-19 are being offered a walking test to aid a faster and better recovery.