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Youth vaping consistently linked to subsequent smoking, marijuana and alcohol use

2025-08-20T13:32:55+00:0020 August 2025|Press release, Tobacco Control|Child and adolescent health|

UK teens who currently vape as likely to start smoking as their peers in the 1970s

2025-07-30T11:32:38+00:0030 July 2025|Press release, Tobacco Control|Child and adolescent health|

Near tripling in US reported lidocaine local anaesthetic poisonings/deaths over past decade

2025-07-22T08:47:36+00:0022 July 2025|Press release, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine|Medical treatment|

Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment risks

2025-07-11T09:03:43+00:0011 July 2025|Press release, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine|Medical treatment|

Women 65+ still at heightened risk of cervical cancer caused by HPV

2025-07-02T10:01:21+00:002 July 2025|Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Medicine, Press release|Women's health|

Emotional demands and confrontation in person-contact roles linked to heightened type 2 diabetes risk

2025-06-25T10:24:28+00:0025 June 2025|Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Press release|Physical health|

Around 1 in 7 US adults who smoke may have some degree of disability

2025-05-30T09:58:14+00:0030 May 2025|Press release, Tobacco Control|Physical health|

Standardising disposable vape devices may curb young people’s desire to try them

2025-05-21T09:39:46+00:0021 May 2025|Press release, Tobacco Control|Public health|

Long working hours may alter brain structure, preliminary findings suggest

2025-05-14T09:13:50+00:0014 May 2025|Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Press release|Work life|

Too few ward nurses linked to longer hospital stay, readmission, and risk of death

2025-05-01T09:29:11+00:0030 April 2025|BMJ Quality & Safety, Press release|Healthcare systems|

Almost one in ten people surveyed report having been harmed by the NHS in the last three years

2025-04-02T15:26:56+00:002 April 2025|BMJ Quality & Safety, Press release|Healthcare systems|

Use of strong synthetic opioids during surgery linked to poor composite experience of pain

2025-02-26T10:16:07+00:0026 February 2025|Press release, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine|Medical treatment|

Melatonin supplementation may help offset DNA damage linked to night shift work

2025-02-25T17:41:41+00:0025 February 2025|Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Press release|Medical treatment|

Cancer drugs linked to severe chronic peripheral nerve pain for 4 in every 10 patients

2025-01-29T11:52:22+00:0029 January 2025|Press release, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine|Medical treatment|

Tobacco advertising + sponsorship bans linked to 20% lower odds of smoking

2025-01-14T14:39:58+00:0014 January 2025|Press release, Tobacco Control|Public health|

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

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

Don’t rely on AI chatbots for accurate, safe drug information, patients warned

2024-10-11T08:36:11+00:0011 October 2024|BMJ Quality & Safety, Press release|Medical treatment|

Policy change may be helping to drive rise in treatment-resistant vaginal thrush

2024-10-09T09:07:50+00:009 October 2024|Press release, Sexually Transmitted Infections|Women's health|

Harmful diagnostic errors may occur in 1 in every 14 general medical hospital patients

2024-10-02T10:40:23+00:002 October 2024|BMJ Quality & Safety, Press release|Healthcare systems|

Abdominal fat linked to widespread chronic pain, especially in women

2024-09-11T10:01:43+00:0011 September 2024|Press release, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine|Physical health|

‘Symptom triggered’ testing can pick up early stage aggressive ovarian cancer in 1 in 4 of those affected

2024-08-14T17:02:58+00:0014 August 2024|International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, Press release|Women's health|