CREDIT: This story was first seen in The Telegraph Overweight patients should be handed a tape measure and told to measure their own waistlines as part of the war on obesity, GPs have said. The Telegraph reports [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen on Web.MD A new study published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) has found no clear evidence that most new cancer drugs extend or improve quality of life, Web.MD reports. The [read more]
Dr Clare Price looks at the causes and treatment of arthritis, differentiating between the two most common forms of the condition seen in primary care – osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis What is arthritis? Arthritis means [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen on The Daily Mail The Daily Mail writes that doctors are unwilling to make urgent referrals for some suspected cancer patients because of pressure to reduce costs, a study suggests. [read more]
A new campaign to engage GPs in HIV testing was launched in September last year – the aim: to improve and expand sexual health and HIV care in general practice. Marie Cahalane speaks to Dr [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the National Health Executive ‘Radical reform’ is urgently needed to develop a workforce fit to meet the needs of mental ill health sufferers in the future, a damning [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen in The Argus Thousands of people in Brighton and Hove at a high risk of medical complications from contracting the flu virus are being urged to get vaccinated this [read more]
Dr Jez Thompson is the RCGP’s liver disease clinical champion. The condition, according to the British Liver Trust, is the only major disease that continues to increase year-on-year. As NHS financial costs relating to liver [read more]
Writing her first article for Practice Business, Dr Clare Price discusses the subject of hypertension. Beginning with a concise definition of blood pressure, she delves into the risk factors associated with hypertension and how the [read more]
Affecting as many as 50-100 people per 100,000, Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel condition closely related to ulcerative colitis. Dr Paul Lambden explores symptoms of both illnesses as well as methods of diagnoses and [read more]
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