Wraparound care for patients taking GLP-1 agonists must include assessment of nutritional status to identify the risk of malnutrition, writes Ellen Fallows Food insecurity is increasing, particularly ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reversed its ban on Juul Laboratories’ e-cigarette products and will allow them to be sold to help adult smokers stop smoking or switch to less dangerous ...

Premature babies in the UK are to be offered protection against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with a single injection of the long acting monoclonal antibody nirsevimab. Every year in the UK around ...

Knowing who to approach and taking initiative can set new foundation year 1 (FY1) doctors up for success, Elisabeth Mahase hears Natasha Binnie, foundation year 2 doctor, says, “Firstly, ...

Those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s seem to be drinking less alcohol than older generations. Why is this—and could it be a public health opportunity? Elisabeth Mahase reports The ...

The US government says that its plan to cap the fees that researchers pay to publish open access articles in medical journals will be in operation from October—although key details, including the ...

One fundamental question that Gillian Leng’s review had to answer was whether the roles of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) could continue in the NHS without any changes.1 ...

I fully agree with Mathew that continuity requires presence,1 but microteams deserve more credit and could be part of the multifactorial solution.2 Owing to changes in society and healthcare, the ...

Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has said that it is treating an increasing number of children for measles, amid reports that a child died after contracting the infection.1 The Times reported that a ...

Gillian Leng led NICE for 20 years and now serves as president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her landmark review into physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) proposes a new direction ...

As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG ...