Wellbeing and health promotion

Britons are increasingly feeling they have to set money aside to pay for private healthcare because the NHS will not...

Having a lie-in at the weekend could actually be good for your heart health, new research has suggested.
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More than 130,000 people across the country are to be offered NHS health ‘MOTs’ in the workplace from next month,...

Leading OH nurse and academic Neil Loach will this autumn receive a singular accolade – becoming a Queen’s Nurse (QN),...

Doctors are urging the government to get tough on what they are calling the “growing epidemic” of vaping in the...

Breakthrough treatments to tackle lung cancer and dementia are on the horizon, with a lung cancer vaccine now being tested...

With demand for mental health support rising, proper assessment always needs to be your starting point when working to help...

Eating meat, especially processed meat and unprocessed red meat – even as little as two slices of ham a day...

The NHS’s ‘soups and shakes’ programme has helped nearly a third of participants in England to put their type 2...

As many as one in 10 adults prescribed opioids for chronic pain will go on to experience opioid dependency or...

Reducing child poverty in England, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap, would significantly boost child health and narrow general regional health inequalities, finds research.

Younger employees – those aged 18 to 34 – are driving demand for workplace health benefits, a poll has suggested,...

Two new treatments, one for tackling osteoporosis after menopause and a gene therapy for the blood disorder beta-thalassaemia, have been...

Community pharmacies are in ‘deep distress’ with financial and demand pressures forcing almost all to stop offering some NHS and...

A medication used for autoimmune conditions has been found to be effective in relieving the pain and stiffness caused by...