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In many of China’s hospitals it is a common sight to see doctors smoking in operating theaters, on wards, and in front of their patients. China Daily reports that 300 000 health workers from 10 universities and 10 leading health associations have joined the campaign to urge doctors to quit smoking.
The study shows how some of the barriers to treating people infected with HIV in conflict settings can be overcome. Recent studies, however, have shown that despite the existence of these disruptive forces in conflict settings, the prevalence of HIV in refugees was lower than in the host country’s populatio More...
Research into mass unemployment during the early 1990s in the United Kingdom found that people in secure employment recovered more quickly from illness. Unemployment increases rates of depression, particularly in the young—who form most of the group who have never worked and who are usually most badly hit w More...
The linked study by Frisch and colleagues brings us right back from the experimental evidence to observational epidemiology. Their analysis shows that it is not the appendicectomy but the underlying appendicitis that is linked to the decreased risk of ulcerative colitis.
A new method of cartilage regeneration has been developed called autologous chondrocyte implantation. Awareness of autologous chondrocyte implantation is limited, and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence advocates it when other treatments have failed.
A recent review in Obesity controversially recommended that children with a BMI greater than 35 and short term morbidity, such as type 2 diabetes, as well as children with a BMI greater than 40 with longer term risks, should be candidates for surgery. Children who seek treatment for obesity report a reduced q More...
Cinema is there to entertain, and many films present mental health negatively. There can be disadvantages in using film as a teaching aid in psychiatry. Stigmatizing attitudes to mental illness are perpetuated by the use of inaccuracies such as the “split personality.
Viewing the best bits of an operation in a one hour slot from a comfortable chair has rather more appeal. This is a surgery screened live from hospitals around the United Kingdom with questions taken from an audience at the Wellcome Trust and the public, via Twitter and Facebook.
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