New features added to Latin America’s global leadership in health Collection From one kitchen to a movement—Fascinating new The BMJ feature by Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade on solidarity kitchens in Sao Paulo - a grassroots food assistance programme that grew out of covid-19 aiming to counter obesity and other diseases ...
In 2024, The BMJ launched two impactful Collections to help advance health priorities in China. These Collections focused on two pressing health issues: women's health and chronic disease management. Both were launched at high profile academic and policy events, receiving significant attention from healthcare professionals, researchers, and the public. This ...
Articles to mark G20 Summit outline opportunities and challenges for global health equity Lack of abortion care is a threat to women’s health in Latin America, warn experts in The BMJ today, in one of a series of articles being published to mark this week’s G20 Summit in Brazil. Mercedes Colomar, from the University ...
And for the least physically active this could mean living nearly 11 more years If every American over the age of 40 was as physically active as the top 25% of the population, they could expect to live an extra 5 years, on average, suggest the findings of a modelling ...
Growth of private provision has resulted in worse care and should be rolled back Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue experts in The BMJ today. Benjamin Goodair at the Blavatnik School of Government, ...
And a majority are preventable, emphasising need for ongoing improvement in patient safety, say researchers Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US state of Massachusetts, published by The BMJ today. Of the 1009 admissions analysed, nearly ...
Provision lowest in most deprived neighbourhoods in 3 of the 4 UK nations Green space investment might be key preventive public health strategy, say researchers The provision of just 1% more green space in the most deprived urban neighbourhoods in 3 out of the 4 UK nations may be linked ...
Greater focus needed on their unique experiences of perinatal period, say researchers Men often struggle with the transition to fatherhood amid a lack of information and emotional support targeted to their needs, suggests a review of the available qualitative evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Open. Greater focus is ...
Cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes quartet linked to 11-fold higher hospital admission risk Kidney disease + cardiovascular disease + dementia + osteoarthritis linked to 24-fold higher death risk Specific combinations of long term conditions have a major role in the additional pressures the NHS faces every winter, because they ...
But it’s not clear if this ‘instability’ helps prompt or follows disease development Findings might nevertheless help to identify those most at risk and personalise treatment Changes in the make-up of the gut microbiome are linked to the onset of clinically evident rheumatoid arthritis in those at risk of the ...
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