Coaching trainees just before a procedure could improve patient safety

“Just-in-time” training could improve clinical outcomes, particularly among inexperienced clinicians, say researchers Giving inexperienced clinicians a quick coaching session with an expert just before they carry out a procedure boosts their success rate and could improve patient safety, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. Athletes and musicians ...

2024-12-17T12:02:31+00:0017 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Alzheimer’s disease deaths lowest among taxi and ambulance drivers

Findings raise possibility that frequent spatial processing tasks might offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, whose jobs require frequent spatial and navigational processing, have the lowest levels of death due to Alzheimer’s disease compared with other occupations, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The ...

2024-12-17T12:07:32+00:0017 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Investigation raises new concerns over landmark trial for top selling anti-platelet drug

Ticagrelor costs the US over $750m a year, but a BMJ investigation raises fresh doubts over the trustworthiness of the major clinical trial that brought the drug to market An investigation published by The BMJ today raises new concerns over the landmark clinical trial (PLATO) that was used to gain worldwide approval ...

2024-12-12T11:35:38+00:0012 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Study finds widening inequalities in child vaccination rates across England

Vaccine uptake “consistently lower” among children in areas of higher deprivation Number of children susceptible to measles at age 5 increased 20-fold in most deprived areas Inequalities in childhood vaccination are widening in England, with uptake rates of five key vaccines consistently lower in young children living in areas of ...

2024-12-12T11:33:02+00:0012 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Around 1 in 5 of the world’s under 50s living with genital herpes (HSV)

And 200 million +15-49 year olds probably had at least one symptomatic outbreak in 2020 Urgent need for vaccines to curb HSV spread and its health/financial toll, say researchers Around 1 in 5 of the world’s under 50s—846 million people—are living with genital herpes infection, suggest the latest global estimates, ...

2024-12-11T11:12:11+00:0011 December 2024|Press release, Sexually Transmitted Infections|

Cutting early life exposure to parental smoking may lower MS risk in genetically prone

Interplay of genes + environment alter key aspects of brain structure at young age, boosting susceptibility Cutting early life exposure to parental smoking may lower the risk of developing MS (multiple sclerosis) in those who are genetically predisposed to the disease, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery ...

Cardiorespiratory fitness linked to preservation of cognitive abilities in older age

Irrespective of key risk factors for cognitive decline, including age and APOE4 gene carriage Higher cardiorespiratory fitness in older age is linked to the preservation of several core aspects of cognitive ability that are vulnerable to age-related decline, finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. And this ...

US e-scooter/e-bike injuries have tripled since 2019, fuelled by alcohol/substance use

Odds of alcohol/substance use much higher among 10-17 year olds than older age groups The numbers of e-scooter and e-bike injuries have tripled in the US since 2019, fuelled by alcohol and substance use, finds a nationwide analysis of emergency department visits, published online in the journal Injury Prevention. And the ...

2024-12-17T12:24:45+00:0010 December 2024|Injury Prevention, Press release|
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