Brands including Cadbury, Walkers, Kellogg’s, and Coca-Cola have more than 90 ongoing partnerships with sporting stars, teams, and organisations Experts say junk food sponsorship of sports should be banned to protect children’s health Junk food firms have more than 90 current sponsorship deals within top UK sports amid growing concerns ...
New BMJ collection calls for global action to ensure patients, caregivers, and relatives are valued equally to other experts It’s time to see lived experience - knowledge gained by being a patient, caregiver, or relative - as essential expertise, to ensure that healthcare is relevant, responsive, effective, resilient, equitable, and ...
Findings provide a roadmap to help strengthen health systems for future crises Disrupted care during the covid-19 pandemic led to sharp increases in other non-covid causes of illness and death, particularly mental health disorders, malaria in young children, and stroke and heart disease in older adults, finds a study published ...
Evidence of impact of discrimination and inequalities is clear; what is needed now is action from government and NHS institutions, says the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS Racism and sexism are “alarmingly normalised” within the structures and person-to-person interactions across the NHS, and the NHS has delayed ...
Persistent conflict and threats of a nuclear conflagration are major impediments to development, they argue As India and Pakistan once again step closer to an open conflict, leading pediatricians and healthcare professionals from across the border have come together to urge both countries to take “brave first steps” towards peace. ...
But there is a risk it may lead to fewer people switching from smoking to vaping Standardising the colour and branding of disposable vaping devices may deter young people who have never smoked or vaped from trying them in the first place, suggests a comparative study, published online in the ...
Time to bolster restrictions and use better evidence to inform policy, say researchers Thousands of young children worldwide are still swallowing magnets despite an increase in regulations, finds a review of the available evidence, published online in the journal Injury Prevention. With US children among those seemingly most at risk, it’s ...
But people treated with antiviral therapy seem to be at lower risk, large US study finds Symptomatic infection with the virus responsible for cold sores around the mouth–herpes simplex 1, or HSV-1 for short—may have a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a large pharma industry-funded US ...
Efforts to promote firearm safety at start of hunting season might help curb both hunting and non-hunting related firearm incidents, say researchers The start of deer hunting season in the US - when firearms and ammunition are more available in certain states - is associated with increases in both hunting ...
Cash-strapped councils warned they would lose up to 30% of advertising income Experts call for a national ban on out-of-home junk food ads to protect public health Plans to ban junk food adverts from bus stops and billboards to protect public health are being stymied by advertising industry lobbying, reveals ...
