Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Overweight and obese women with type 2 diabetes should replace diet beverages with water if they want to lose weight, a new study suggests
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Receiving ultrasound after surgery to repair a fractured tibia does not accelerate healing or improve functional recovery, according to new research
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In the majority of stillbirth cases the cause remains unknown despite a full post-mortem investigation, say researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Obese people too breathless to become physically active could benefit from daily breathing exercises using a hand-held respiratory device, suggest researchers
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Children with an absent parent as a result of death or relationship breakdown are more likely to start smoking and drinking alcohol before they reach their teens, new study results
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Children whose dads adjust well to parenthood and feel confident in their new role are less likely to have behavioural problems in their pre-teen years, new study results sugges
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Expecting nurses to be role models for healthy behaviours is unrealistic, unhelpful and professionally unreasonable, a small UK study suggests.
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Women living in more deprived areas of the UK and with lower levels of education have a greater risk of developing coronary heart disease, new research suggests.
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An early intervention in autism aimed at helping parents communicate with their child can reduce the severity of symptoms, with the reduction continuing for six years, a follow-up
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Worsening depression symptoms are associated with shorter survival rates for patients with lung cancer, especially those in the early stages of the disease, say researchers in the
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Women are catching up with men in terms of alcohol consumption, researchers say.
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Older people who already have memory and thinking problems could benefit from exercise, say researchers
Urinary incontinence is associated with an increased risk of mortality in older nursing home residents, new research suggests.
Working night shifts has little or no effect on a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, say UK researchers.
Cutting exposure to common environmental synthetic chemicals by 25% could ward off more than 150,000 cases of diabetes in Europe, suggest researchers.
Women who drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day could reduce their risk of developing dementia by more than a third, say researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States.
GPs can quickly detect serious infections in children using a simple decision rule and a finger prick blood test, say researchers
A Smartphone app used in conjunction with a heart monitor could test for atrial fibrillation, say researchers from the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong.
