Systemic US reforms needed to prevent mass death in the next pandemic

Experts highlight lessons that can be learned from the US’s covid-19 experience and say reforms should be central to 2024 US presidential candidate manifestos Ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, The BMJ today launches a forward-looking series that highlights the lessons that can be learned from the US’s covid-19 experience and ...

2024-06-04T10:23:21+00:0031 January 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Men with inflammatory joint disease less likely to be childless than healthy peers

They also have more kids: factors linked to disease and its treatment might influence fertility Men with inflammatory joint disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, are less likely to be childless and have more children than their healthy peers, suggests research published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. As yet ...

US female gun violence victims less likely to die than male victims despite same injury severity

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 ...

Twice daily electrical stimulation may boost mental processes in Alzheimer’s disease

Non-invasive technology (tDCS) may fire up brain’s plasticity, enabling new neural networks Twice daily non-invasive electrical stimulation of the brain may boost mental processes (cognitive function) in people with Alzheimer’s disease, suggest the results of a small clinical trial published online in the open access journal General Psychiatry. The technology, known ...

2024-06-04T10:23:23+00:006 December 2023|General Psychiatry, Press release|

Covid vaccination before infection strongly linked to reduced risk of developing long covid

Unvaccinated individuals almost four times as likely to be diagnosed than those vaccinated before first infection Receiving at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine before the first infection is strongly associated with a reduced risk of developing post-covid-19 condition, commonly known as long covid, finds a study published by The ...

2024-06-04T10:23:24+00:0023 November 2023|Press release, The BMJ|

AI able to predict if and when people at high risk progress to glaucoma

Subject to further refinement with larger numbers of people, this may prove helpful diagnostic aid for doctors, say researchers AI (artificial intelligence) that is trained to recognise red flags in retinal images and clinical information can predict if and when people at high risk of glaucoma, usually referred to as ...

Extending annual screen for diabetic eye disease to 2 years could risk treatment delays

Early treatment vital to stave off blindness; extension delays critical hospital referral Those at either end of the age spectrum and/or of Black ethnicity most at risk Extending the annual screen by a year for people in England considered to be at low risk of diabetic eye disease (diabetic retinopathy) ...

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