Findings might help personalise music therapy and evaluate effectiveness of existing ones There are three potentially unique acoustic features of healing music that transcend musical genres, suggests research published in the open access journal General Psychiatry. The findings might help to personalise playlists for patients, using artificial intelligence to analyse individual ...
Benzodiazepines and antipsychotics most often recommended, but few safety warnings on social media The use of potentially harmful ‘trip-killers’ to cut short ‘bad drug trips’ after taking psychedelics, such as LSD or magic mushrooms, is an emerging concern, warn doctors in a research letter, published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. Their ...
Women seem to be 5 times as likely as men to put on a lot of weight in wake of quitting The diabetes drug dulaglutide (Trulicity) may significantly lower a woman’s risk of substantial weight gain after she has given up smoking, finds a secondary analysis of clinical trial data, ...
Study suggests a general ban doesn’t seem necessary Healthcare workers will be relieved to know that hospital coffee machines are not responsible for spreading disease and a general ban doesn’t seem necessary, finds a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. In a bid to eliminate hospital acquired (nosocomial) ...
Study highlights the positive impact of doctors working over the festive period, and may prompt broadcasters to air new Doctor Who episodes each year at Christmas A new Doctor Who episode shown during the festive period, especially on Christmas Day, is associated with lower death rates in the subsequent year across the ...
While Barbie’s career options have increased in recent decades, there is clearly still room for improvement, say experts Barbie should consider expanding her medical and scientific careers into areas where women and other under-represented groups remain a minority, suggests a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. The ever-popular ...
Experts have filed over a dozen complaints about online adverts for Wegovy and criticise lack of sanctions by regulators UK organisations responsible for protecting the public from prescription-only drug adverts are putting patients at risk from the harms of weight loss drugs by not enforcing the law, reveals an investigation ...
Flips, jumps, turns on flat ground; quarter pipe and ramp moves pose highest risk at all ages To curb the risk of falls, it may be worth grading skateboard parks like ski runs according to the popularity of the metal and concrete features they contain and the level of expertise ...
They also have better outcomes, with fewer complications after hospital admission Female victims of gun violence in the US are less likely to die than their male counterparts, despite having similar injury severity, finds a 7-year analysis of a US national injury database, published in the open access journal Trauma Surgery ...
Minorities significantly disadvantaged by UK medical education system, say researchers Remedial action urgently needed to close gap The size of the gap in academic achievement between White and minority ethnic medical students in the UK varies considerably, depending on their individual ethnicity and which medical school they attended, finds the ...
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