NHS Category

Issues focusing on the past, present and future of the UK’s National Health Service.

Medical advice, unsweetened — is medical paternalism a problem?

Infection/Disease, Integrative, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Nutrition, Pharmacy/Drugs
Vitamin D supplementation for depression
Vitamin D for depression: Vitamin D supplementation seems to alleviate depressive symptoms in adults: An extensive meta-analysis suggests that vitamin D supplementation may alleviate depressive symptoms in adults with depression. …
genetics, Nutrition
Waist-to-height ratio guidance questioned
Waist-to-height ratio advice questioned: National health guidance is ‘misleading’ claim University health experts. Health researchers in the West Midlands demonstrate how the latest guidance provided by the National Institute for …
NHS
12 hour wait times for 30k
12 hour wait times for 30k : ‘We are seeing the sharp demise of the health service’, RCEM says as 30,000 patients wait more than 12-hours in A&Es in England …
Global Reach, Infection/Disease
Mathematical modelling fighting malaria
Mathematical modelling to fight malaria: Researchers have created a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs in Africa to manage one of the biggest threats to global malarial …
Infection/Disease, NHS, Paediatrics
BSPD: Time to talk about immunistion
BSPD advises GDP members to discuss immunisation following polio virus detection: Recent reports of the detection of the polio virus in sewage samples in London have promoted the British Society of …