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Rotavirus cases among infants under four months have fallen

Rotavirus cases down 70% after GP-led vaccination campaign

31 March 2014

Cases of rotavirus in England have fallen by 70% this season following the launch of the GP-led vacc...

MPs called for GPs to offer more liver disease checks (photo: iStock)

MPs call for liver disease QOF indicators to tackle 'growing epidemic'

28 March 2014

GPs should be incentivised through the QOF to detect liver disease cases to tackle the alarming rise...

Mammogram: screening elderly women may not cut advanced cancer rates (photo: Zephr/SPL)

Doubts over breast cancer screening in elderly

28 March 2014

Doubts have emerged over proposals to extend UK breast cancer screening to women aged over 70, after...

The JBS3 risk tool for heart disease may help predict risk of dementia in later life

Lifetime heart risk tool 'will predict dementia'

27 March 2014

A new tool to predict lifetime cardiovascular disease risk is set to be adapted to estimate the risk...

Cardiovascular disease: GPs urged to intervene earlier (photo: Jason Heath Lancy)

GPs urged to use new tool to predict lifetime cardiovascular risk

26 March 2014

GPs should use a new risk-scoring tool to estimate patients' lifetime risk of conditions such as MI ...

Sleep key factor in diabetes and obesity

Prescribe sleep for diabetes and obesity, GPs told

25 March 2014

GPs should prescribe better-quality sleep to prevent rising cases of metabolic disorders such as typ...

Scarlet fever cases are at their highest level since 1990 (photo: SPL)

GPs braced for further scarlet fever surge as cases hit 24-year high

24 March 2014

Officials have urged GPs to remain vigilant for symptoms of scarlet fever, after cases in England ro...

HPV vaccination: schedule may be changed to two doses (photo: Consolidated Scotland)

Experts back HPV jab campaign overhaul

21 March 2014

Experts have recommended a reduction in the number of doses administered in the national HPV vaccina...

DH advisors have approved use of Bexsero on the NHS

Meningitis B vaccine added to childhood programme after U-turn

21 March 2014

The meningitis B vaccine Bexsero is set to be added to the NHS childhood vaccination programme, reve...

Neisseria meningitidis bacteria: the national vaccination programme has cut rates of meningococcal disease (photo: SPL)

GPs to run meningitis booster jab campaign from summer

20 March 2014

Practices should begin administering booster doses of the meningococcal C (Men C) vaccine to univers...

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