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Vaccination schedule for elderly may not include pneumococcal jab (Photograph: SPL)

Pneumococcal jab for elderly may be dropped

20 October 2010

Healthy over-65s may be dropped from the pneumococcal vaccination programme next year, the DoH has r...

There are more than 300,000 fragility fractures a year in the UK, and hip fractures alone cost £2 billion (Photograph: SPL)

GPs urged to tackle the high cost of fractures on the NHS

20 October 2010

GP commissioners must improve access to specialist osteoporosis clinics to tackle the growing burden...

Fish oil supplement capsules (Photograph: SPL)

Fish oil does not lower postnatal depression risk

20 October 2010

Taking fish oil capsules during pregnancy has no effect on maternal depression or development of the...

Dental work raises vascular risk

20 October 2010

Invasive dental treatment increases the risk of vascular events for around four weeks, research sugg...

Basal cell carcinoma (Photograph: SPL)

Skin cancer gene linked to vitamin D

20 October 2010

People predisposed to skin cancer may also be at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency, research su...

Dr Lee: led supermarket study (Photograph: Pete Hill)

Supermarket health checks success

20 October 2010

GP-led opportunistic health checks in supermarkets can help to identify undiagnosed patients, includ...

Research into medicines used by small numbers of patients will grow (Photograph: Istock)

Rarer conditions targeted as research database expands

20 October 2010

GP practice data will play a greater role in research into rare conditions, after the expansion of t...

Psoriatic arthritis (Photograph: SPL)

NICE rejects arthritis drug in draft advice

20 October 2010

Golimumab has not been recommended for use in treating psoriatic arthritis, under draft guidance iss...

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