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NHS England has announced that changes to the Cancer Drugs Fund will go ahead and they will evaluate the ‘cost effectiveness' of medicines available through the Fund for the first time.

Long term shift work is linked to impaired brain power, research published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine has found.

Patients with lung cancer diagnosed when they go to hospital as an emergency often had difficulties in seeing their GP, a study has found.

Unum has launched a set of workshops to help employers spot and manage some of the most common causes of sickness absence.

Research into a blood test for many types of cancer has found over 800 markers in cancer patients' blood which could lead to early diagnosis, delegates heard at a conference.

Patients diagnosed with cancer are sometimes keeping their diagnosis from their families, research from Bupa has found.

One in three lung cancer patients dies within three months of diagnosis despite having visited their GP several times beforehand, research has found.

Children are now less likely to be overweight or obese in the UK than they were ten years ago.

Almost two-thirds (62%) of men who have completed cancer treatment have had a positive experience of returning to work, research has found.

L&G has launched a new online body tool to help consumers understand critical illness (CI) definitions alongside its latest changes to definitions.