The case of a three-year-old girl in the US whose type 2 diabetes reversed after weight loss is encouraging news for doctors and the public (children and adults) at large, writes Dr William Tigbe, Clinical Lecturer, Warwick Medical School, Statistics & Epidemiology, Health Science.

Dr Jonathan Cave, an economist from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, has researched healthcare systems and reacts to news that Cambridge University Hospitals Trust has been placed in special measures.

Details of a 60% increase in new diabetes cases has highlighted the increasing threat to our health. However it's not all bad news. Professor Paul Thornalley of Warwick Medical School and Systems Biology Centre says new research into food supplements, plus a health lifestyle, could help us defeat the illness.

The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has suggested that he would have no objection to charging patients who miss appointments with their GP, and that in future patients will be informed how much they have cost the NHS if an appointment is missed. Dr Kate Owen GP and Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School examines the issues involved.

Following a period in which many GPs have felt undervalued and undermined by successive governments it is pleasing that Jeremy Hunt has recognised in today’s speech the quality and value General Practice delivers to the NHS. Dr Kate Owen a GP and Principal Clincial Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School discusses what this means to general practitioners.