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From today (4th May 2021), care home residents in England are allowed to go out on low-risk trips without having to self-isolate for 14 days afterwards.

A new technology, known as HeartFlow, will be used by the NHS to diagnose and treat around 100,000 patients with suspected heart disease, five times faster than normal. 

In the UK and beyond, the Covid-19 pandemic is thought to have disproportionately affected minority ethnic groups. Now, the largest study to date of more than 17 million adults in England, has confirmed this.

A new report, Crohn's and Colitis Care in the UK: The Hidden Cost and a Vision for Change, has exposed the stark reality of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) care across the four nations.

With just one week to go before the Senedd election, 36 organisations from across health, social care, transport, and housing have signed up to a joint paper which calls for urgent Welsh Government action on health inequalities.

Patients with untreated stage 1 hypertension should be prescribed medication if their blood pressure does not decrease after six months of guideline-recommended lifestyle therapy.

NICE has published updated guidance on the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation including use of tools to calculate the risk of bleeding, the role of newer anti-clotting drugs and treatments for abnormal sources of electrical impulses in the heart.

Shingles is becoming increasingly common. This article looks at the symptoms, triggers and treatment, and asks what practitioners can do to support patients with this condition.

The Government's Covid-19 shielding scheme was "quickly drawn up" and "suffered from the problems of poor data and a lack of joined up systems" according to a Public Accounts Committee report.

Poor oral health further intensifies the likelihood of coronavirus reaching the lungs and causing more severe cases of the infection, new research finds.

By the end of July, it is expected that all adults in the UK will have been offered their first Covid vaccine dose and by mid-June, all restrictions are expected to come to an end. With this is mind, it is easy to believe the effects of the pandemic will soon be a distant memory.

The Government has launched a Antivirals Taskforce to search for the most promising novel antiviral medicines that can be taken at home and support their development through clinical trials.

Insufficient quality sleep, but not duration, is associated with greater odds of female sexual dysfunction, according to a new study.

Various cutaneous manifestations appear to be related to infection with Covid-19. This article looks at the different types and management options.

New research, funded by the charity Brain Tumour Research, has found a new way to starve cancerous brain tumour cells, preventing further growth.