“The news that fortification of flour with folic acid is to be implemented at long last is welcome. Folic acid (vitamin B9) supplementation was shown to reduce neural tube defects by about 80% in a ...

‘Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population representative studies with 141 million participants’ by the NCD Risk Factor ...

Scientists comment on the NHS rollout of the ‘stop-smoking’ pill Varenicline. Dr Sarah Jackson, Principal Research Fellow at the UCL Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group, said: ...

Scientists comment on the UK Government’s announcement on nationally determined contributions at COP29. Dr Caterina Brandmayr, Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute – Climate ...

A commentary paper published in Addiction Biology looks at cannabis use causing chromosomal damage and increasing cancer risk. Prof Wayne Hall, Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Youth Substance ...

Commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer for England, the UK National Statistician and NHS England’s National Director for Transformation, the Sudlow review sets out a bold vision for overcoming the ...

“This report is relevant because these two additional cases might indicate household transmission of clade 1b mpox outside Africa for the first time. However, more details about these 3 cases are ...

Journalists came to this SMC briefing to hear from experts from NICE who will discuss and answer your questions about the details and recommendations in the updated menopause guideline. This Briefing ...

“Trump’s re-election may surprise on climate. Internationally, Trump may withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement for a second time, but that’s not likely to have the sort of impact it did before in ...

“Understanding Patient Data welcomes the publication of the Sudlow Review and its assertion that health data should be recognised as critical national infrastructure. The UK is uniquely positioned to ...

“The investigators take advantage of the ‘natural experiment’ of post-war food rationing to test the theory that exposure to sugar rationing in utero and in early childhood prevents or delays the ...

Prof Aimee Spector, Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing, University College London (UCL), said: ...