The amount of time people spend sitting down, not just the amount of physical activity they undertake, can affect their risk of dying early, US research has found.

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Taking anti-addiction drugs can reduce an obese person?s weight by as much as 6% in combination with dieting and exercise, researchers in the US have claimed.

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Drinking alcohol helps prevent rheumatoid arthritis and alleviates symptoms in those who have the condition, according to new research.

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An indebted hospital trust paid its interim chief executive as much for three months? work as it would have cost to employ eight nurses for a year. He was paid more for one day?s work than a nurse earns in a month.

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Rosemary Barlow from the Hull Kidney Patients Association became the first patient to be dialysed in a new state-of-the-art unit at Hull Royal Infirmary last month.

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Care tailored to individual cardiac patients? needs and preferences can significantly lower their risk of dying within one year of discharge, according to research published online in the journal Health Services Research.

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Health professionals should ?think delirium? whenever people are admitted to hospital or long-term care, according to latest NICE guidance on the condition.

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A&E departments are failing to spot patients who are at risk of committing suicide in future, many of whom seek emergency care in the year before their death, according to UK researchers.

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Relationships are the most important factor in giving terminally ill patients the spiritual care they need, research has found.

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Hollywood star Catherine Zeta Jones met nurses and other staff when she visited the Children?s Hospital at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff with her husband, actor Michael Douglas.

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