PSNC has responded to the Department of Health's latest consultation on the provision of stoma and incontinence appliances and related services to primary care. Although the Department h

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing new data from two studies that provide further evidence of the risks of anemia drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, or ESAs. T

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has cleared for marketing the first rapid blood test for the drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphyloco

As the colder winter weather sets in this New Year Asthma UK is offering important advice to the thousands of South Asian people with asthma in the UK on controlling their symptoms throughout the

A London Routemaster bus is on a tour of towns and cities across the North of England to help encourage people to become lifesavers by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). The 1962

Free campaign packs are now available for health and other professionals for fpa's Contraceptive Awareness Week, 11th - 17th February, themed The New Man. Packs contain a range of e

Focusing on prevention is a positive move by the Government and could enhance care for patients, but doctors are concerned that yesterday's proposals to introduce a national health screening progr

Three-year data from the largest, multi-center, prospective voluntary registry on any procedure for benign uterine fibroids showed that 90 percent of the women participating avoided a hysterecto

MS Society Scotland chairwoman and UK trustee Denise Fagg and Sunderland branch chairman Alan Lindsley were made Members of the British Empire (MBE) in this year's Queen's New Year's Honours list.

For the fifth consecutive year, key research on the prevention, screening and treatment of GI cancers will be the focus of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium press program. Study authors will

The joint American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) Science Writers' Seminar on Cancer in the Developing World is now available at

California's historic safe hospital staffing law, achieved through years of advocacy by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, completes its phase-in period as rat

Paul Wilson has been elected to the Nursing & Midwifery Council's (NMC) governing body as the new alternate council member for nurses in Scotland. Hailing from West Calder, Paul is curren

Health plans and programs such as Medicare and Medicaid want to know how satisfied patients are with their medical care. Patient satisfaction information is collected routinely through surveys. I

A straight forward concept allowing health care decision makers to compare costs and benefits of a specific program in the same units (i.e. monetary values) is cost benefit analysis (CBA) which el

Plastic surgeons are re-evaluating past scientific findings and developing new knowledge about the effects of silicone breast implants. A recent supplement to Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Approximately 600,000 cards and personal messages of support were shipped and delivered to service members at military hospitals around the country and at installations overseas this holiday seaso

California is known for its earthquakes and wildfires, but Mother Nature is adding heavy winds, rains, mudslides and blizzards to the mix this winter. Residents and tourists are reacting to a win

The latest sign of over zealous Big Brother or the future for empowering people with dementia? When electronic tagging was suggested as a way of tracking people with dementia it sparked a

Black patients are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to receive therapy for various kinds of cancer, despite recent efforts to close gaps in treatment, according to a study

Los Angeles-California state health officials commemorates the ten-year anniversary of smoke-free bars in California and highlighted a new law that protects Californians against the danger of seco

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (Oncolytics) (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced that the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) has filed a protocol with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

In a first-of-its-kind safety research study, University of Florida researchers have injected an anti-inflammatory compound into the eye of a person with a sight-robbing disease. The proc

Scientists at the leading Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now disclosed the mystery how alcohol may cause exaggerated insulin secretion resulting in severe hypoglycemia (too

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced the start of a US$126 million emergency operation to provide food assistance to more than one million displaced Iraqis who are una

Senior doctors from the Association of British Hujjaj (Pilgrims) UK (A.B.H) are urging all returnee pilgrims and their families to be aware of the symptoms of meningitis and know what to do if thi

Abbott has received a license for HUMIRA (adalimumab) as a treatment for moderate-to-severe chronic plaque psoriasis in the UK. Adalimumab is the first fully human anti-TNF (tumour necrosis factor

The WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety and the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety today invited health ministries, health care provider organizations, health care professionals, patien

Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has assigned priority review status to the company's New Drug Application (NDA) for sugammadex.

Rush University Medical Center is participating in a National Institutes of Health study to discover the genes responsible for Alzheimer's disease. The goal of the study is to create a large bank