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MPs to investigate safety of e-cigarettes

MPs are to examine the safety of e-cigarettes, including their effectiveness as a stop smoking tool....

Success rates for giving up smoking 'highest on record' in 2017

Smoking quit-rates have reached the level highest on record throughout the first six months of 2017,...

NICE diabetes guidance backs GP referral to lifestyle programmes

NICE has updated its 2012 guidance on preventing type 2 diabetes to put greater importance on lifest...

Nicotine addiction: clinical review

Jennifer Percival outlines the key elements of smoking cessation and how these can be applied in pri...

GPs told to recommend phone app to tackle middle-aged inactivity

GPs have been urged to crack down on middle-aged inactivity after Public Health England (PHE) found ...

GP consultations not long enough to provide advice on exercise, says RCGP

GPs are less likely to ask patients about physical activity because 10-minute appointments are 'unfi...

GPs fear workload surge as NICE backs statins for 'almost all' over-60s

GPs fear huge workload rises after researchers found NICE's updated statin risk threshold qualifies ...

One in three dementia cases preventable through lifestyle changes

Researchers have urged GPs to 'be ambitious about prevention' after finding that cracking down on ke...

DH sets out plan to wipe out smoking and ease GP workload

Smokers made a third more GP appointments than non-smokers last year, the government said this week ...

More patients quitting smoking as prevalence falls to one in seven

Official data showing that smoking prevalence has fallen in recent years shows doctors' efforts to g...

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