Conditions

What is occupational health provision like in South Africa? An OH nurse based in South Africa explores the key differences with the UK and reflects on an asbestosis case.

Research has found that not enough is being done to support weight loss and healthy lifestyles among night shift workers.

Air filtration technologies designed to make social or work interactions safer in indoor spaces are not effective, research has suggested....

How can employers can support employees with prostate cancer and encourage screening for early detection?

The government has joined forces with the charity Prostate Cancer UK to launch a £42m screening programme to find the...

Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health during 2022-23, with work-related stress absence still...

As many as 3.7 million people are struggling with a ‘work-limiting’ health condition that restricts the type or amount of...

The NHS’s Diabetes Prevention Programme could act as a template for other countries in their attempts to tackle the disease,...

Here are five ways that an employer can support an employee with persistent or chronic pain.

Communities are being urged to apply for free public defibrillators under a scheme being led by the British Heart Foundation.

Charities and the NHS are collaborating on a project to gauge whether blood tests can be used to help diagnose...

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has said new figures suggesting nearly one in three deaths from non-melanoma...

Tens of thousands more women at increased risk of breast cancer are to be offered a ‘repurposed’ NHS drug, after...

The UK’s chronic lack of access to dentists, especially NHS dentists, is leading to mouth cancers not being spotted or treated early enough.

Flexible working can lower employees' heart health risk, but only among those already at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, finds research.