Associations held after factoring in diabetes and limiting age of first stroke up to 40 Assessments beyond traditional stroke risk factors now needed, suggest researchers A lower level of mental ability during the teenage years may be linked to as much as a tripling in the risk of having a ...
Nearly 1 in 4 say gambling has affected their personal/professional lives over past year Better, earlier, and targeted support needed, urge researchers Several indicative factors, including junior rank, male sex, and younger age, are strongly linked to ‘harmful gambling’ among serving UK military personnel, finds an analysis of survey responses, ...
Celebrating the successful formal launch of the BMJ Group Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Training Initiative in Georgia June 2024,Tbilisi, Georgia—On 13 June, 2024, BMJ Group formally launched the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Training Initiative in Georgia, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Ministry of Internally Displaced ...
One obesity service reached its three year quota of patients in less than 17 weeks Experts blame lack of consistent government policy and say next government needs to act decisively One in six integrated care boards (ICBs) in England have stopped accepting new patients for specialist weight management services as ...
It’s time to expand prevention efforts, especially in younger and more deprived groups, say researchers Rates of coronary heart disease in the UK have declined by about 30% over the past two decades, but this has been offset by rising rates of other conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels, ...
Current plan will prevent only about 20% of neural tube defects but full fortification could prevent about 80% The UK government’s failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid “will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented,” argues Professor ...
Depletion of this is strong predictor of death in older people, say researchers Twelve months of heavy resistance training—exercise that makes muscles work against a force—around retirement preserves vital leg strength years later, show the follow up results of a clinical trial, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open ...
Alongside level of education reached, institution type may also be influential say researchers A private (fee-paying) school and/or a ‘higher status’ (Russell Group*) university education may be linked to better mid-life health—at least in the UK—suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Alongside the level of ...
Following concerns raised with BMJ we are investigating the quality of the research and the messaging used in Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022”, published in BMJ Public Health on 3 June 2024. An expression of ...
Together we can build a better health and social care system which thrives on collaboration not competition, say experts Long term thinking and stable, consistent policies are key to improving our nation’s financial prosperity and wellbeing, say experts on The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS as they set out their ...