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Healthy diet before pregnancy linked to lower risk of heart defects in babies at birth

Women who have a healthy diet before becoming

08 Sep 2015
Lack of training is one of the biggest barriers to identifying cancer in children, say GPs

Childhood cancer charity CLIC Sargent is calli

08 Sep 2015
Low-dose aspirin can reduce preeclampsia risk and complications

Low-dose aspirin reduces the risk and complica

01 Sep 2015
New blood test could predict breast cancer relapse months before tumours show on scan

Scientists have developed a blood test for bre

01 Sep 2015
Population is living longer but illness and disability mean many gain ‘unhealthy years’

People in the UK are living longer but are cop

01 Sep 2015
Preventive measures to reduce lower back pain in men should begin in youth

Obesity or being overweight in early adulthood

01 Sep 2015
NHS hospital staff who treat victims of human trafficking feel ‘inadequately prepared’

Around one in eight hospital staff working in

01 Sep 2015
Students lack the confidence to deal with domestic abuse

Undergraduate nursing and midwifery training s

25 Aug 2015
Mortality rate for children under five in the UK almost double that in Sweden

The death rate in preschool children in the UK

25 Aug 2015
Balance retraining exercise programmes help to reduce falls in at-risk older women

A community-based balance retraining programme

25 Aug 2015
Divorced men who remarry more likely to be depressed than those who remain single

Divorced men who remarry are almost one third

25 Aug 2015
Practice nurses reluctant to broach sensitive issue of weight loss with patients

GPs and practice nurses need better training i

25 Aug 2015

People aged over 60 who undertake even a small

18 Aug 2015

Treating patients with advanced heart failure w

18 Aug 2015

Compassionate care is vital to increase cancer

18 Aug 2015

Health professionals caring for young people wi

18 Aug 2015

Patients with mental health problems in Belgium

18 Aug 2015

Regular exercise and nurse counselling should b

11 Aug 2015

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