Patricia Ripoll, founder of the VISIBLE Foundation in Spain and patient advisor to BMJ Group, has spent more than a decade advancing patient involvement across healthcare. Through the foundation, she leads more than 15 projects supporting patient co-design across health systems, innovation, and policy. Her work highlights the cost ...
Iron supplements + guava juice combo more effective than supplements alone for boosting haemoglobin levels Might be worth including it in dietary counselling for anaemia prevention, say researchers Regular guava juice consumption may prove a readily accessible and affordable addition to helping lower the risk of anaemia in women in ...
Time to restore kindness and compassion in healthcare to improve patient and staff well-being Healthcare has lost its human, moral, and relational foundations and must reconnect with its core values to improve both patient and staff well-being, argue experts in The BMJ today. Despite unprecedented advances in diagnostic precision, therapeutic capability, and ...
Recommendations for calcium and vitamin D supplementation should be re-evaluated, suggest researchers Calcium, vitamin D, or combined supplements offer little to no clinically meaningful benefit on fracture and fall prevention in most older people, finds an in-depth review of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today. Almost a third of people ...
Growing financial strain on the NHS due to longer stays in hospital Eating disorders and self-harm most common reasons for emergency admissions The total cost of emergency admissions for mental health among children and young people in England rose from £22.5 million in 2012/13 to £87.3 million in 2021/22, finds ...
Patients with vitamin D deficiency may benefit from supplements before operations Vitamin D deficiency is associated with more moderate to severe pain following breast cancer surgery and an increased consumption of opioid drugs, finds research published online in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. Breast cancer patients with low levels ...
Current exercise guidelines are too low, suggest researchers Less fit individuals need to do more exercise to get the same benefits Adults should aim to do between 560 and 610 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial reduction in the risk of heart attacks ...
From clinical observation to food safety policy Research published in Archives of Disease in Childhood identified a serious and previously underrecognised risk associated with slush ice drinks marketed to children, directly influencing food safety guidance and regulatory discussions across the UK, Ireland, Germany, and the European Union. ...
Many clinicians identify problems in care but lack the time, training, or confidence to turn those insights into publishable research. BMJ Research to Publication helps doctors and healthcare researchers strengthen study design, reporting, and publication skills so that frontline evidence can reach wider clinical and policy audiences. Across key ...
Approval mechanisms must be grounded in patient need and population health A new UK drug approval pathway, designed to speed up the availability of new medicines, benefits industry over patients and the NHS, argues an expert in The BMJ today. The pathway aligns regulatory review by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory ...
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