Objective To characterise the age-related impact of organ damage patterns on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in ...

Introduction Colonic diverticulosis is the most common structural abnormality of the colon in developed countries, with an increasing global prevalence. Approximately 20–25% of affected individuals ...

Postsurgical parotitis is a rare postoperative complication characterised by acute, transient unilateral or bilateral ...

Background Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) impairs trunk strength, mobility and cardiorespiratory fitness. Despite exercise ...

A GP has been suspended from the UK medical register for five months for booking fake medical appointments so she could leave work in time to pick her children up from an after school club. Helen ...

The government must remove the punitive remand conditions for protesters, writes Rita Issa Eight young people have recently been on hunger strike in UK prisons. This is the largest coordinated hunger ...

Outbreaks of several infectious diseases in Cuba have killed dozens and are reportedly overwhelming the island’s hospitals and mortuaries. Cuba is confronting one of its most serious infectious ...

In the remote islands of Chuuk state, Micronesia, tuberculosis has long been a silent crisis, spreading quietly through communities, often undiagnosed. For many decades, tuberculosis could only be ...

A recent randomised controlled trial showed that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), compared with histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs), induce greater gut microbiome alterations and oral-to-gut ...

Almost one million people have signed up to a national diabetes prevention scheme, which has been shown to cut the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third. NHS England released details ...

Objectives This study assessed whether a previously developed Monte Carlo simulation model can be reused for evaluating various strategies to minimise time-to-treatment in southwest Netherlands for ...

Introduction Adolescents in Kenya face a high burden of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges, including early pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and limited access to accurate ...