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Press Releases
Oncology:
Association of pickled food consumption with non-digestive system cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis27 February 2025
Medical education and training:
UK medical students’ mental health and their intention to drop out: a longitudinal study5 February 2025
Epidemiology:
Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission burden in Scotland: 16 year prospective population cohort study18 December 2024
Public health:
Exploration of fathers’ mental health and well-being concerns during the transition to fatherhood, and paternal perinatal support: scoping review12 November 2024
Public health:
Health impact of urban green spaces: a systematic review of heat-related morbidity and mortality22 October 2024
Most Read Articles
Communication:
How does communication affect patient safety? Protocol for a systematic review and logic model27 May 2024
Cardiovascular medicine:
Is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term mortality among primary prevention adults? A retrospective cohort study from a large healthcare system28 March 2024
Pharmacology and therapeutics:
Low-dose naltrexone for post-COVID fatigue syndrome: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomised trial in British Columbia13 May 2024
General practice / Family practice:
ChatGPT (GPT-4) versus doctors on complex cases of the Swedish family medicine specialist examination: an observational comparative study26 December 2024
Mental Health
Mental health:
Health workers’ conceptualisationand experiences of common mental symptoms and work-related psychosocial stressors in Central and Southern Ethiopian regions: a qualitative study26 February 2025
Mental health:
Narrative enhancement and cognitive therapy for self-stigma among youth with bipolar disorder or multiple mental health conditions: protocol for a pilot randomised basket trial26 February 2025
Mental health:
Design and methods of the research unit 5187 PREACT (towards precision psychotherapy for non-respondent patients: from signatures to predictions to clinical utility) – a study protocol for a multicentre observational study in outpatient clinics26 February 2025
Recent Articles
Oncology:
Association of pickled food consumption with non-digestive system cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis27 February 2025
Geriatric medicine:
Sleep disorders and the association with frailty among community-dwelling older adults in Northwest China: a cross-sectional study27 February 2025
Cardiovascular medicine:
Is there a difference in ischaemic heart disease deaths that occur without a preceding hospital admission in people who live in rural compared with urban areas of Aotearoa New Zealand? An observational study27 February 2025
Health policy:
Facilitators and barriers to use of clinical practice guidelines among physicians in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study27 February 2025
Rheumatology:
Allopurinol use and risk of acute coronary syndrome in gout patients: a population-based cohort study in Sweden27 February 2025
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