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Depression was already one of the most common mental disorders in Great Britain, but new research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in mental distress among adults...
Antiviral therapies would prevent the virus from multiplying. Alongside EIDD-2801 being tested on AGILE, other potential COVID-19 treatments that fall into the category of antivirals include...
Donna Kinnair, head of the Royal College of Nursing, and herself no stranger to racism as a black woman living in the UK, points out that patients in black and minority communities have the worst...
Cardiomyopathy or cardiac damage resulting from chemotherapy, radiation and anti-cancer signalling inhibitors is a major consideration (Myatt, 2015). Increases in life expectancy following anti-cancer...
First offered to patients in the UK in early 2019, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy forms part of a newer class of medicines designated advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
Current thinking, developed over many years of turning routinely to pharmacological measures, presumes that pain should never be experienced in the modern world, and that there is a pill that can...
The gene-silencing research outlined in this article is just some of the innovative work taking place in cardiovascular medicine. Next month's column will discuss tissue engineering and regeneration,...
According to new figures from NHS Digital, more than half of all hospital admissions for drug misuse poisoning are related to opioids other than heroin, such as codeine and morphine (NHS Digital,...
The development of antibiotics has been revolutionary for medicine and public health. However, given the resistance that is now building up against them, we are facing one of the most significant and...
The review (PHE, 2019) was a response to a call from the minister for public health and primary care in 2017 for PHE to identify the scale, distribution and causes of prescription drug dependence, as...
England and Wales are facing the highest death rate from asthma seen in the last decade, with 12 700 people dying from asthma in the last 10 years—an increase of 33%, according to an Asthma UK...
‘We know that vaping is a route to cutting down or quitting smoking, and there is evidence that it is not a route into smoking among young people, a group whom we would actively discourage from...
In a new phase II feasibility study published in the British Medical Journal examining both quantitative and qualitative data, it has been reported that men living with prostate cancer have benefitted...
Research to build up the evidence base is under way, and a new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology has shown that, while cannabis does have some harmful effects on the brain,...
In a bid to decrease the carbon footprint, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2019) has produced a patient decision aid to support people living with asthma to choose inhalers...
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