It’s time for some of the world’s best hospitals and research institutes to examine their role in the deadly legacy of a stem cell charlatan, say researchers It’s time for some of the world’s best hospitals and research institutes to launch full and independent investigations into their support for disgraced ...
Patients of higher volume surgeons experienced lower risks Patients treated by surgeons who average over 10 shoulder replacements a year have a lower risk of reoperation and serious complications, and a shorter hospital stay than those treated by surgeons who do fewer operations, finds a study published by The BMJ today. These ...
Latest Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport includes: -New and updated age appropriate tools to aid identification and management of condition -New versions of return to active sport and education strategies -Stronger evidence for benefits of light intensity exercise within first 48 hours to aid recovery -New targeted approach to ...
And it may have curbed educational attainment and prompted fall in proportion of male births Disaster likely affected people across a substantially more extensive area than previously thought The Bhopal gas explosion in 1984—one of India’s worst industrial disasters—may have heightened the risk of disability and cancer in later life among ...
Higher quality data needed to understand and address “stark and persistent” inequalities across the life course The NHS will be “flying blind” in its attempts to meet its legal, and moral, obligation to eliminate ethnic inequalities in health and care until longstanding problems with the quality of ethnicity data are resolved, warns ...
Findings show substantial fall in risk of death from breast cancer since the 1990s and provide reassurance for patients and doctors Most women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer today can expect to become long term cancer survivors, finds a study published by The BMJ today. The findings show that the average ...
Peer reviewed? Yes Evidence type: Systematic review and meta-analysis Subjects: Close contact interventions and preterm infants Close contact intervention between a mother and her premature baby may reduce risk of mortality by almost a third ‘Kangaroo mother care’ seems to reduce the risk of infant mortality by 32% and severe ...
Longer duration of breastfeeding associated with modest gains in academic achievement in teenage years, study suggests Children who are breastfed for longer appear to be more likely to gain slightly better results in their school GSCEs at age 16 compared with non-breastfed children, suggests a study published online in the ...
More than 1 in 6 unvaccinated people report health effects of COVID two years after confirmed infection Study finds 17% did not return to normal health and 18% reported covid-19 related symptoms after 24 months Around 1 in 6 unvaccinated individuals say they are still experiencing health effects of covid-19 ...
Current prevention strategies failing to stem tide of violence; redoubling of efforts needed The rate of children’s firearm injuries has risen steadily over the past 5 years, and particularly after the stay at home order took effect during the pandemic, reveals an audit of these injuries in the Chicago metropolitan ...
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