4+ hour, 5+ min ago  (601+ words) Supporting children to switch from liquid medicine to tablets could save thousands of pounds for the NHS and improve the patient's quality of life, according to the results of a project conducted by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). In a…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (401+ words) NHS England has launched a consultation on removing masculinising and feminising hormones as routine treatment for children and adolescents with gender incongruence or dysphoria. In consultation documents published on 9 March 2026, NHS England said it had reviewed evidence and concluded that…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (465+ words) David Gee / Alamy. com Pharmacies will be used to signpost families to vaccinations amid a measles outbreak in north London, the London Assembly Health Committee has heard. Speaking at a hearing on the measles outbreak in Enfield, north London, held…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (479+ words) More than 300 "under-vaccinated young adults" received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine from a community pharmacy as part of a pilot in Greater Manchester designed to improve take-up rates for the vaccination. The walk-in service, implemented by the NHS…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (345+ words) Children in the UK could be offered screening for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1 DM), according to researchers looking into how finger-prick testing could potentially identify the condition in its earliest stages before symptoms appear. Among the 17, 283 children aged 313 years who were screened…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (465+ words) Combined inhaler therapy reduces asthma attacks in children by almost half, study results have revealed. Publishing their findings in The Lancet on 27 September 2025, researchers compared combination inhaled corticosteroid'formoterol reliever monotherapy with short-acting "2-agonist (SABA) reliever monotherapy, in children aged between…...