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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today issued a drug alert to the healthcare community advising them of the recall of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination batch quarantined yesterday following the death of a 14-year-old girl.

A simple, non-invasive test appears to be an effective screening tool for identifying patients with silent heart disease who are at risk for a heart attack or sudden death.

What The Ninth Annual Controversies and Advances in Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease continuing medical education conference will feature several discussions and presentations on how healthcare reform could affect cardiovascular disease patients' diagnosis, treatment and outcome.

Former professional football players with large bodies don't appear to have the same risk factors for heart disease as their non-athletic counterparts, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found in studying a group of National Football League (NFL) alumni.

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, today urged people - particularly those who are identified as being at high risk - to contact their GP to make arrangements to be vaccinated against swine flu.

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that an attack on doctors by the Australian Health Insurance Association (AHIA) indicates that health insurers must be planning another round of premium increases.

Doctors could predict a patient's risk of receiving a domestic abuse diagnosis years in advance by using electronic medical records as an early warning system, according to research published on bmj.com today.

Children born to women taking antidepressants in early pregnancy have a small but important increased risk of septal heart defects (a defect in the wall dividing the right side of the heart from the left side), concludes research published on bmj.com today.

There is insufficient evidence to support population-wide screening for prostate cancer using the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, conclude two papers published on bmj.com today. The authors say that the PSA test cannot distinguish between lethal and harmless prostate cancer, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of healthy men.

On the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cancer Research UK today sends out a warning that if thousands of women continue to ignore invitations to breast screening they could be putting their lives at risk. The NHS breast screening figures have shown that around three in 10 women still do not attend screening*. In 2008, out of 2.2 million women who were sent an invitation for screening, 1.