Tricyclic antidepressants and alosetron are associated with a significant number needed to harm in the treatment of individuals with irritable bowel syndrome, a US analysis has found.

GPs should reserve antibiotics for only the most serious cases of diverticulitis; say researchers whose study found treatment had no effect on the time to recovery.

A rotavirus immunisation programme could eradicate severe cases in young children within two years in England and Wales, a new modelling study predicts.

New computer-based risk tools to help GPs diagnose lung or gastro-oesophageal cancer can successfully flag up patients at substantially raised risk, a major new study has found.

Exclusive The rollout the bowel cancer screening programme to older patients is being hampered in some areas by a lack of secondary care capacity, Pulse has learned.

This series of photos was a bronze award winner in the 2010 Institute of Medical Illustrators awards. The picture shows a 52-year-old man with excessive abdominal scarring following surgery.

Should your practice be following up patients who miss bowel cancer screening? Our legal expert advises

GPs Dr Keith Hopcroft and Dr Vincent Forte continue their series on making sense of common but often tricky symptoms

GPs Dr Keith Hopcroft and Dr Vincent Forte continue their series on making sense of common but often tricky symptoms

GP Dr Hercules Robinson describes how lesions a patient assumed were midge bites had a more complex origin

This woman’s fifth presentation with a mouth ulcer prompted Dr Hercules Robinson to dig deeper

Specialists and GPSIs offer their advice on managing five tricky pain presentations in primary care