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When stopping taking antidepressants, the risk of experiencing one or more discontinuation (withdrawal) symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nausea, insomnia and irritability is 15%, according to a...

A guide to back pain

Dental health of cleft patients attending the 18-month-old clinic at a specialised centre

The Cleft Registry and Audit Network (CRANE) database, set up by the Department of Health in 2000, forms part of the national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Clinical...

Considerations around Gillick competence in healthcare

» Along with maturity and intelligence will also be the professional's own ability to assess whether the child can understand aspects of choices to be made « .

A higher education institution's response to the NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment

‘Practice assessors need to be prepared and supported to facilitate students to recognise and analyse complexity and the judgments, decisions and actions required for practice at increasingly high...

A content analysis of mothers' online communications of their partner's paternal postnatal depression

Following the data collection and analysis, two themes relevant to health visiting practice were produced..

Spotlight on health visiting

Research roundup: May 2024

Due to its widespread applications in various fields, antibiotics are continuously released into the environment and ultimately enter the human body through diverse routes. The authors of this study...

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The children's cancer charity, the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT), is highlighting the crucial role health visitors can play in the early diagnosis retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer..

A guide to lupus

» Severe lupus may be treated with immunosuppressants or other drugs used more rarely, such as immunoglobulin and cyclosporin A « .

Fathers' experiences of the Maternal and Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) programme: A service user's perspective

The Maternal and Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) programme is a structured model of health visiting designed for families needing additional support through targeted or specialist...

Professional perspectives on dietary practices and nutrition from pre-conception to birth: An exploratory study

There are missed opportunities to establish consistent health foundations, but nutrition and diet during pre-conception and pregnancy can have a substantive impact on health and wellbeing during...