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COPD patients were treated with azithromycin for a year (Photograph: SPL)

Antibiotics cut COPD exacerbations

Antibiotic treatment of COPD with azithromycin reduces exacerbations by a quarter, but may affect so...

NICE launches alcohol abuse care standards

The 'gold-standard' quality of care for patients with alcohol abuse has been set out in a quality st...

The app uses 11 variables including pulse rate, mental health score and C-reactive protein levels to predict survival

Cancer survival tool beats clinicians' estimates

Cancer patients' chances of surviving for days or weeks can be predicted more accurately by a tool d...

One in seven BP machines are inaccurate

Around one in seven BP machines provide inaccurate readings, a UK study suggests....

NICE guidlines on ambulatory monitoring will lower the risk of overdiagnosis and so reduce GP workload and prescribing costs (Photograph: SPL)

NICE backs 'cost-saving' ambulatory monitoring for diagnosing hypertension

Updated NICE BP guidance recommending ambulatory monitoring before diagnosing primary hypertension w...

Researchers find bowel cancer knowledge 'stubbornly low'

Public knowledge of bowel cancer symptoms remains 'stubbornly low' despite campaigns to raise awaren...

Value-based pricing must not hit medicines supply

Plans for the prices of new drugs to be based on their value to patients must not put additional str...

Clot prediction tool spots high-risk patients

UK researchers have developed the first ever primary care tool to predict a patient's future risk of...

Mr Cameron: the investment of £800m over five years would have a ‘huge impact’ on NHS care

Cameron pledges extra £85m to medical research

The government will inject an additional £17m a year over five years to boost NHS research and fund ...

NICE queries cost of anticoagulant that eliminates monitoring

NICE has asked for more data on the cost-effectiveness of an oral anticoagulant that elimates the ne...

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