Expecting nurses to be role models for healthy behaviours is unrealistic, unhelpful and professionally unreasonable, a small UK study suggests.

Women living in more deprived areas of the UK and with lower levels of education have a greater risk of developing coronary heart disease, new research suggests.

An early intervention in autism aimed at helping parents communicate with their child can reduce the severity of symptoms, with the reduction continuing for six years, a follow-up study by UK researchers has shown.

Worsening depression symptoms are associated with shorter survival rates for patients with lung cancer, especially those in the early stages of the disease, say researchers in the United States

Women are catching up with men in terms of alcohol consumption, researchers say.

Older people who already have memory and thinking problems could benefit from exercise, say researchers

Urinary incontinence is associated with an increased risk of mortality in older nursing home residents, new research suggests.

Working night shifts has little or no effect on a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, say UK researchers.

Cutting exposure to common environmental synthetic chemicals by 25% could ward off more than 150,000 cases of diabetes in Europe, suggest researchers.

Women who drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day could reduce their risk of developing dementia by more than a third, say researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States.

GPs can quickly detect serious infections in children using a simple decision rule and a finger prick blood test, say researchers

A Smartphone app used in conjunction with a heart monitor could test for atrial fibrillation, say researchers from the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong.

Manuka honey curbs the activity and growth of bacterial biofilms even at low dilutions, new research suggests

In regions where cancer survival is poorer, people tend to have a lower awareness of cancer symptoms, say London researchers.

In 2015, Julia Terry became the first mental health nurse in the UK to be awarded a fellowship with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. She talks to Clare Lomas about the benefits of being a NICE fellow.

New research from Finland suggests a healthy diet is linked to better reading skills in the first three years of school.

Patients with type 2 diabetes who live with their spouse have half the risk of being overweight compared to single patients with type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.