One of the Government’s key advisers on the use of antidepressants has resigned from the role citing harassment after claims he made about coming off the drugs drew widespread derision
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An aspirin a day not only helps keep cancer at bay, it may also play a life-saving role in treatment, new research suggests. A review study involving hundreds of thousands
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An estimated 1.3 million older Britons may be putting themselves at risk by taking alternative therapies which could potentially interact with their prescribed drugs, a new study suggests. GPs should
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A groundbreaking trial to prevent and manage Type 1 diabetes has been launched by a health board. Doctors hope a new drug will help regrow lost insulin-producing cells in the
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Some NHS staff choose not to get the flu vaccine because they wrongly believe it could make them ill, England’s top nurse has said. Professor Jane Cummings, chief nurse for
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The decision not to make a drug which slows the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) available on the NHS is “deeply disappointing”, a charity has said as it launched a
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A campaign group has lodged an appeal after it lost its legal challenge to the Scottish Government’s move to allow pregnant women to take abortion-inducing medication at home. The Society
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Statins are not effective at reducing heart disease and stroke among certain groups of elderly people, a new study suggests. The findings “do not support the widespread use of statins
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A “new generation” cancer therapy has been rejected for widespread NHS use by health officials. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) published draft guidance stating that axicabtagene
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A weight-loss pill has been hailed as a potential “holy grail” in the fight against obesity after a major study showed it did not increase the risk of serious heart
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