The BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine sets out its vision to transform academic medicine and help improve population and planetary health Academic medicine is in urgent need of a revolution, say experts in the first report of The BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine as they set ...
General practitioners are now “prescribing" parkrun for their patients as part of a social prescribing initiative to promote preventative care. But in The BMJ today, Dr Margaret McCartney argues that turning parkrun into a prescription medicalises a walk in the park and is a retrograde step. Parkrun is an organised, timed, and ...
Cash-strapped councils warned they would lose up to 30% of advertising income Experts call for a national ban on out-of-home junk food ads to protect public health Plans to ban junk food adverts from bus stops and billboards to protect public health are being stymied by advertising industry lobbying, reveals ...
Inadequate oral hygiene, poor diet, infrequent visits to the dentist, all contributory factors Good oral health essential for quality of life, long term health and sporting performance The prevalence of tooth and gum issues among teenage (academy) professional footballers in England is high, finds research published in the open access ...
Distress caused by impairment seems to have key role in observed association Hearing loss is linked to a heightened risk of developing heart failure, with the psychological distress caused by the impairment taking a key role in the observed association, finds a large long term study, published online in the ...
But longer term effects unclear and bias likely in much of the existing research Relaxation techniques may help lower high blood pressure—at least in the short term—but the longer term effects are unclear, finds a pooled data analysis of the existing research published in the open access journal BMJ Medicine. And ...
Global partnerships expand opportunities for researchers to maximise the impact of their work April 2025 — Global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ Group, is expanding its open access reach by introducing new and renewed Read and Publish agreements for 2025, further reinforcing its ongoing support for enhancing global knowledge sharing. ...
In almost two-thirds of cases, treatment or care received was responsible, and in more than a third harm was due to lack of access to care Almost one in ten people in Great Britain experienced healthcare-related harm due to care or treatment they received from the National Health Service (NHS) ...
Including a non-invasive eye test in the preoperative assessment for older patients might be a useful predictor of vulnerability to this debilitating postoperative complication, authors suggest Thickening of the macular layer of the eye’s retina is associated with a greater risk of postoperative delirium for older patients undergoing surgery under ...
Use of statins lowered risk of dementia even further in people with low LDL levels People with low levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in their blood have a lower risk of dementia, including lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease related dementia, shows a study published online today in the Journal of Neurology ...