Association for Palliative Care Medicine’s strong opposing stance risks undermining confidence in palliative care, argue senior doctors The Association for Palliative Care Medicine (APM) continues to misinform on palliative medicine doctors’ stance on assisted dying, warn a group of palliative medicine consultants in The BMJ today. Five years after first raising their ...
Guideline panel links to World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) raise questions about bias The World Health Organization (WHO) says that it is adhering to standard protocol in pursuing its transgender health guideline, but the process has been criticised for lacking transparency and an association with WPATH - an ...
SGLT-2 inhibitors may simultaneously tackle kidney stones and gout flare-ups in patients with type 2 diabetes, say researchers Use of sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drugs to treat type 2 diabetes may also help to lower the risk of recurrent kidney stones and gout flare-ups, finds a study from ...
But further research needed to understand effects of heavy use and cannabis potency Lifetime cannabis use is associated with several changes in brain structure and function in later life, suggests an observational study, but these associations may not be causal, finds a genetic analysis of the same data, published in ...
Those affected should be encouraged to keep up or start exercise routines, say researchers Physical activity of any intensity after a diagnosis of dementia is associated with around a 30% lower risk of death, finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The findings prompt the researchers to ...
Just 1 or 2 sessions of sport and/or exercise likely to benefit brain health And may be more convenient for busy people, suggest researchers Just one or two sessions of physical activity at the weekend—a pattern of exercise dubbed ‘weekend warrior’---may be just as likely to lower the risk of ...
Many trusts didn’t recognise or couldn’t verify the payments Findings raise important questions about unrecognised conflicts of interest Pharmaceutical companies have paid an estimated £156 million to NHS trusts in England between 2015 and 2022 without the public being told what the payments are for, reveals an investigation by The BMJ today. ...
First trial to show feasibility of gene signature to tailor treatment for high risk patients Using a gene signature technique to tailor chemotherapy for patients with early triple negative breast cancer shows promise as a way to improve disease-free survival, finds a clinical trial published by The BMJ today. Triple negative breast ...
But risk patterns vary on weekends and Christmas by country and region Suicide risk is highest on Mondays and increased on New Year’s Day, whereas suicide risk on weekends and Christmas varies by country and region, finds an analysis of data from 26 countries published by The BMJ today. The researchers say ...
Condition caused by vitamin C deficiency first linked to sailors during Renaissance era The scourge of scurvy, which is caused by vitamin C deficiency, may be re-emerging amid the cost of living crisis and the rise in weight loss (bariatric) surgery, suggest doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating a ...
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