Stronger regulations and education campaigns could help avoid life changing injuries Fireworks pose an underestimated danger to public health and require stronger regulations and sustained public education campaigns to help prevent devastating, yet entirely avoidable injuries, warn US experts in The BMJ today. Fireworks related injuries are a major ...
Findings may be useful for informing early treatment decisions, but evidence on longer term effectiveness and safety lacking Extracorporeal shockwave therapy probably reduces short term pain linked to frozen shoulder, while manipulation under anaesthesia - with or without steroid injections - probably improves short term flexion (raising the arm ...
Pronounced shift from prior diagnosis of epilepsy, psychosis, intellectual disability to ADHD, anxiety, depression Steep rise in diagnoses among 16-20 year olds, females, and those of White ethnicity The medical profiles of adults diagnosed with autism have changed hugely since 2010, finds a study of medical records in the UK ...
Local case mix, primary care provision, geography don’t explain rates of less than 10% to 40+% Locally tailored strategies may reduce unnecessary admissions, suggest researchers Neither local case mix, primary care provision, nor geography explain the large differences in hospital admission rates, ranging from less than 10% to more than ...
We must be honest about the harm that is happening to patients, urges senior doctor The label “corridor care” is hiding the true scale of the NHS hospital crisis, warns a senior doctor in The BMJ today. Corridor care refers to the practice of providing care to patients in ...
90% of cases occurred in historically under-vaccinated communities Findings offer insights for countries aiming to retain or regain their elimination status The outbreak that contributed to Canada losing its measles elimination status in November 2025 was concentrated in historically under-vaccinated communities with close social networks across Canada, the US, ...
Results suggest short lived benefit with steroid injections, but no sustained improvement and possible longer term harm Commonly used injections for Achilles tendinopathy - pain, stiffness and swelling in the Achilles tendon - offer no meaningful clinical advantage over placebo (sham) treatment, finds a clinical trial published by The ...
And overwhelmingly targeted at opposing restrictions on disposable vape sales Scale and consistency of responses suggest a coordinated campaign Three quarters of all the responses to the UK’s public consultation in 2023 on creating a smoke-free generation and restricting disposable vape sales were generated by AI bots, finds an analysis ...
But nightly prenatal sleep length may modify this association, exploratory findings suggest Working night shifts during pregnancy is linked to a heightened risk of neurodevelopmental abnormalities detected by screening in the child by the age of 4, finds research published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. But nightly prenatal sleep ...
Those for atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and heart attack all rose faster after law enacted Legalisation of recreational cannabis in the US is associated with a rise in hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease, finds an analysis of more than 50 million patient discharge records, published in the open access journal ...
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