Hospital appointments: Last minute cancellation widens health inequalities, watchdog warns
Repeated or last minute cancellations of planned NHS appointments are having a catastrophic effect on…
Category: Science and Health
Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars
Young stars are rambunctious! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the ‘antics’ of a…
A simpler method for learning to control a robot
A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance…
Ancient DNA reveals diverse community in ‘Lost City of the Incas’
DNA analysis of 34 individuals buried at Machu Picchu revealed that many traveled alone from…
New planetary formation findings
Astronomers have discovered new evidence of how planets as massive as Jupiter can form. Read…
Astronomers reveal new features of galactic black holes
An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists, report on a dedicated observational campaign on the…
Alarming decline in vaccine update must be tackled, say MPs
The UK’s status as a global leader on vaccination is at risk because of falling…
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Bone resorption caused by systemic sclerosis
This woman in her 60s presented with a history of a progressively receding chin over…
Jean Kaseya: New head of Africa CDC faces uphill struggle in post-pandemic era
When the covid pandemic began in 2020, Jean Kaseya was in Italy witnessing how the…
Forearm injury in a young boy
A 9 year old boy presented to the emergency department after a fall onto his…
Phenotypes, cardiovascular disease . . . and other stories
Genome-wide association studies of cardiovascular diseaseAccording to the NHGRI-EBI catalogue of human genome-wide association studies…
Diets Impact Health and the Environment
Researchers reviewed and assessed impacts of popular diets, including vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, paleo, keto, and…
Build a Better Breakfast
Breakfast may be the least popular meal of the day. Hunger, time, motivation—whatever it is,…
Ask the EN Experts August 2023
If you’re looking for more evidence that food choices and dietary patterns can influence health,…
What is Coffeefruit?
Q: What is coffeefruit and is it healthful to consume? A: Coffee beans are one of the…
Benefits of Vitamin C
Q: What are some benefits of vitamin C and what foods are good sources? A: Vitamin C…
The Forgotten Flavor
As a flavor, bitter often gets a bad rap. A taste to grimace at instead…
What Happens if You Have Too Much or Too Little Fat in Your Diet?
While fat has often been dubbed as a dietary nemesis, it’s important to know that…
Mexican Restaurant Meals
Depending on the source, many consider Mexican cuisine to be the most popular ethnic food…
The Struggles with Weight Bias
The prevalence of overweight and obesity continues to rise. Nearly one in three adults are…
Tomato Time
The Folklore. Ripe tomatoes, plump with the flavor and fragrance of summer, tug heavily on…
Unraveling a protein that may inspire a new biotechnology tool
Scientists have unraveled the step-by-step activation process of a protein with a deep evolutionary history…
Earlier and earlier high-Arctic spring replaced by ‘extreme year-to-year variation’
About 15 years ago, researchers reported that the timing of spring in high-Arctic Greenland had…
Family trees from the European Neolithic
The Neolithic burial site of Gurgy ‘les Noisats’ in France revealed two unprecedentedly large family…
New archosaur species shows that precursor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs was armored
Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of…
Automated analysis of microplastic concentrations
How high are concentrations of microplastics in the environment, in our drinking water or in…
One simple brain hack might boost learning and improve mental health
Shifting from a high-pressure mindset to a curious one improves people’s memory, finds new research….
Gordon McInnes: professor of clinical pharmacology, past president of the British Hypertension Society, and key figure in cardiovascular research
bmj;382/jul26_17/p1728/FAF1faKnown as “Big Gordon” by colleagues—not least on account of his stature (he was 2…
Strike action: Junior doctors in England announce fifth walkout in August
Junior doctors in England will take further strike action in August, as their dispute with…
Potent synthetic opioids are linked to rise in heroin overdoses and deaths in England
A group of potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes have been linked to a rise in…
Authors’ reply to Braithwaite
We agree with Braithwaite1 that cardiovascular events are usually acutely defined and generally have an…
Risk of diabetes with statins: comparing apples with oranges
Mansi and colleagues appropriately advocate for shared decision making when considering statins for secondary prevention…
Israel: Doctors strike to protest against judicial overhaul
Doctors in Israel have joined mass protests against moves by the government to radically overhaul…
Government reȷects MPs’ calls to restore doctor-patient relationship to heart of general practice
Various steps recommended by MPs last year to improve the doctor-patient relationship in general practice…
Healthcare workers must be included in long covid research in the UK
Patient and public involvement in research into long covid is key to understanding the condition’s…
David Oliver: NHS England targets for new and follow-up outpatient appointments are ill conceived
In February 2022 NHS England published its Delivery Plan for Tackling the Covid-19 Backlog of…
In praise of civility among clinicians
There’s currently no shortage of controversies in medicine, with repeated strikes by doctors and proposals…
Managing raised ferritin in primary care
What you need to knowRaised levels of ferritin can be associated with several serious underlying…
John Launer: Are medical humanities useful?
Several times a year I run sessions for GP training schemes or other groups of…
What is my risk, doctor? Patients should be told risks of untreated disease and side effects of treatment
Bretthauer and Kalager have a point in arguing that absolute disease risk and absolute treatment…
Reflections on the NHS at 75: postgraduate training is the problem
Feature, 1 JulyReflecting on the NHS at 75, Kumar concludes that we should simplify medical…
Don’t assume that cutting back on cancer diagnosis would improve other services
Cancer is the UK’s leading cause of death,1 and, as Mathew notes, the UK’s record…
Cancer care has not caused waiting lists to mushroom
The NHS is under extreme pressure. We agree with Mathew that poor access to general…
Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century
Important ocean currents that redistribute heat, cold and precipitation between the tropics and the northernmost…
The NHS at 75: let’s stand up for regaining and retaining NHS principles
The reflections on how the NHS will need to adapt to survive the next 75…
The NHS at 75: the current crisis is not unintended
Salisbury quotes Nye Bevan: “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person…
The NHS at 75: income inequality is the main driver of poor health
Dixon and Alderwick’s editorial on the NHS at 75 was full of relevant and pithy…
How trusts can deliver inclusive recovery across the NHS
The covid-19 pandemic has had a severe and lasting impact on our health. The newly…
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Private hospitals and consultants are threatened with legal action over poor data compliance
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given a warning to private hospitals and consultants…
Helen Salisbury: What happened to the video revolution?
Four years ago, we knew that video consulting existed but saw no role for it…