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7 March 2014
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n10 January 2014
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n9 January 2014
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n11 December 2013
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n4 December 2013
\n \n \n \nFormer Department of Primary Care Health Sciences student, Dr Peter Gill, wins Dr. Barbara Starfield Award
\n \n\n \n \n12 June 2013
\n \n \n \nInsufficient evidence to suggest device designed to lower blood pressure is effective.
\n \n\n \n \n6 June 2013
\n \n \n \nGPs should offer nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to smokers who refuse to quit in order to help them cut down the amount they smoke, according to new NICE guidance aimed at helping more people kick the habit.
\n \n\n \n \n3 May 2013
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n30 April 2013
\n \n \n \nSmoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. For young people who have never smoked, these programmes appear to be effective at least one year after implementation.
\n \n\n \n \n15 April 2013
\n \n \n \nSevere and life-threatening complications in pregnancy can have a big impact on fathers as well as mothers
\n \n\n \n \n21 March 2013
\n \n \n \nStudy carried out by the University of Oxford and University of Southampton suggests most family doctors have given a placebo to at least one of their patients,
\n \n\n \n \n15 March 2013
\n \n \n \nCaroline Jones awarded best qualitative poster prize at South West Society of Academic Primary Care conference.
\n \n\n \n \n13 March 2013
\n \n \n \nGrant awarded for 'Supporting low cost intervention for disease control' project
\n \n\n \n \n1 March 2013
\n \n \n \nNo evidence that checking kids' and teens' blood pressure - and treating them if it's high - can reduce their heart risks in adulthood, according to a new analysis.
\n \n\n \n \n27 February 2013
\n \n \n \nFeature on whether doctors should pay more attention to parents\u2019 instincts when children are ill
\n \n\n \n \n12 February 2013
\n \n \n \nLargest rise among under 5's; common infections account for much of workload
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