Winter often elicits skincare frets in patients, but by providing the appropriate advice and products, you can help them understand that their skin can not only successfully withstand the worsening weather but be boosted both in health and appearance. WPR takes a look at the factors to consider and the importance of restoring balance to [...]

Professor Tamara Matysiak-Budnik, Hépato-Gastroentérologie & Oncologie Digestive, Institut des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif, highlights the importance of wielding awareness of the global burden of gastric diseases, and the need for further research in the field, as well as improved prevention and treatment strategies. In October, the United European Gastroenterology, the European Association for Gastroenterology, Endoscopy [...]

When a baby or child dies, or a child is bereaved, lives are shattered, and healthcare professionals often play a pivotal part in helping families through their loss. Child Bereavement UK shed light on how the professionals providing a helping hand need to be supported themselves in order to be effective in what can be [...]

Despite significantly hampering the quality of life for millions of individuals, urinary incontinence frequently remains shrouded in secrecy and shame. Combat the confusion for those suffering, heighten your own knowledge, and help bring the condition out into the open with WPR’s snapshot of exciting research. The Sexual Health Impact One of the major negative effects [...]

Pharmacists are often at the helm of patient care – offering convenient access to a comprehensive range of services. However, too high a proportion of the population still remain unaware that the sector’s scope extends to help with dry eye syndrome too. WPR chats to two pharmacists about their encounters with the condition, and gauge [...]

Explore psoriatic arthritis through the expert eyes of Philip Helliwell, Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at the University of Leeds, and Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist for the Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust, who talks to WPR about the condition’s life-impacting potential and why treatment must not be delayed. What fraction of the population are most likely to develop [...]

Cold weather and seasonal bugs can aggravate existing health problems, making people with long-term conditions, such as kidney disease, more vulnerable to illnesses. Even if people are managing their long-term condition well, and leading otherwise healthy lives, it’s important that they continue to protect themselves. Kidney Care UK advise on the information which patients should [...]

At the point of their arthritis diagnosis, for female patients, motherhood can feel like a faraway priority – a distant hope diminished by the complex care which their condition requires. But the launch of an exciting new social media campaign, #MaybeBaby, is demonstrating that by encouraging family planning discourse at an early stage between the [...]

WPR rounds up some of the latest research for Parkinson’s – and how it’s striking hope and inspiration into our future management of the progressive neurological condition. This article was sourced from news stories highlighted by The Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Parkinson’s, Leprosy and Crohn’s Researchers at the University of Ottawa have announced a new discovery [...]