Benefits strongest in early stage disease and among those who kept up their routines Incorporating therapeutic potential of exercise into cancer care merits consideration Structured exercise may help people with cancer live longer and have more time free of disease, finds a synthesis of the available evidence, published online in ...
As the world’s 193 member states gather at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to debate development goals and current UN reforms, international researchers in a new The BMJ Collection strongly oppose the merger of the United Nations Population Fund (the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency) and UN Women, ...
Those born in more recent decades may be at greater risk, exploratory analysis suggests High quality, long term studies needed to determine if eradication therapy lowers risk Exposure to the stomach microbe Helicobacter pylori may be associated with more than 1 in 5 cases of bowel cancer worldwide, suggests an exploratory risk ...
Scholasticide must be publicly condemned and its perpetrators held to account Scholasticide - deliberate attacks on a society's education system in armed conflict - is a war crime that must be publicly condemned and its perpetrators held to account, insists an editorial published by The BMJ today. Dr Rana ...
The BMJ reveals minimum waits of up to 16 weeks for hip, knee and cataract surgery Experts “concerned by the scale” of measures that can prolong patients’ pain Nearly half of health boards in England are deliberately delaying care for patients by imposing minimum waiting times in an attempt ...
Financial conflicts of interest still rife, despite new rules banning such links Public health experts say conflicts should be removed ‘immediately’ Nearly a third of the government’s nutrition advisors still have “significant” ties to the food industry including Coca Cola, Sainsbury’s, and Danone, reveals a new analysis by The ...
Erythema ab igne, historically common in adults, on the rise in children, they highlight Balancing an electronic device on bare skin risks disfiguration, doctors warn in the online journal BMJ Case Reports, after treating a child with skin discolouration and a ‘fishnet’ rash —hallmarks of erythema ab igne—caused by repeated exposure ...
Fewer daily steps at faster pace or more steps at slower pace may substantially lower risk Brisker pace for half an hour a day may be sweet spot for those with sedentary lifestyles Fewer daily steps at a faster pace or more steps at a slower pace may both substantially ...
This article is currently the subject of a legal complaint by Professor Kim Fox Eminent cardiologist involved in treatment guidelines received £50m from drug research contracts Case shows what’s at stake in the debate around transparency of doctor-industry relations A British cardiologist and former president of the European Society ...
They are high in sugar, low in nutrients, and too thin, finds analysis of UK products. Current labelling as complementary food source needs regulatory review, say researchers. Commercial baby foods in spouted pouches—intended to boost nutritional intake from the age of 6 months onwards—are often more like sugary drinks and ...
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