Late recurrence is a risk for some pediatric cancers, particularly Ewing sarcomas and tumors of the central nervous system, according to a new study published online December 4 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

From December 9th until March 2010, Terrence Higgins Trust will be offering sexual health communication training for health care providers in Coventry and Warwickshire.
The training aims to help Health Practitioners, including GPs, Practice Nurses, School Nurses and pharmacy staff increase their capacity for providing sexual health services or screening for sexually transmitted infections.

Boehringer Ingelheim and GSK, companies with a strong heritage in COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and a commitment to improved patient care, have announced their support of The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients` Associations` (EFA) call for urgent improvement in the care of people with COPD. To coincide with World COPD Day [...]

An “unacceptable and growing chasm” exists in the UK between those with good and poor oral health, according to the British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) Oral Health Inequalities Policy which is published today. The policy highlights the close association between low socio-economic status and poor oral health, calling for more focus on preventive care. It also [...]

Instruments that estimate a single index value for health are increasingly used to measure utilities for health states for the estimation of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in cost-utility analyses. Much of the appeal in using cost-utility analyses is in the comparability across conditions and interventions. Therefore, it is important to know whether using different [...]