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Patients who receive the standard surgical treatment for melanoma that has spread to one or more key lymph nodes do not live longer, according to a major new study

Low-income Hispanics with Type II diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels equivalent to those resulting from some glucose-lowering medications, researchers at the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute reported

For people with headache, seeing the neurologist by video for treatment may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a Norwegian study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology

The University of Tampere and Tampere University Heart Hospital are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to recognise serious difficult to predict complications as early as possible in the home care of patients following a heart attack

The need to adopt a more value-based approach to healthcare is pressing, but some question if it is right to map the patient-centric model proposed by Harvard economist Michael Porter onto Europe’s universal health systems

With the number of cancer cases on the rise, stretched healthcare systems have to support more and more patients with troublesome symptoms and the side effects of treatment. Finnish start-up Noona has developed a mobile app to support self-management

A study from Warwick University suggests peer-led self-management programmes have little impact on the quality of life or lung function of adolescents with asthma, but concludes more data is needed to provide evidence for this

Despite Brussels’ new emphasis on smart specialisation, there is an ongoing difficulty in capturing the value of EU cohesion policy

American dominance in biomedical research is shrinking, as international collaboration becomes ever more prominent

SKA South Africa project director Rob Adam goes on European roadshow to maintain interest in telescope still some years from being completed