A laboratory experiment provides the first evidence that framing a sham treatment as personalised to one’s genetics and physiology increases its placebo effect on pain.
Decision-makers considering using cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to inform health-technology assessment (HTA) must contend with documented and controversial shortfalls of CEA, including its assumption of disease…
The NHS needs more doctors so why have some medical students been left in limbo waiting for a job?
As someone who lost his mum to dementia in 2022, I am especially sensitive about why she developed dementia, and whether it could ever have…
Working life is associated with lifestyle, screening uptake, and occupational health risks that may explain differences in cancer onset. To better understand the association between…
Our inadequate electricity network is stopping the building of thousands of new homes. And the necessary move to low-carbon heating and cars is only increasing…
White men with graduate degrees, a new study finds, are highly likely to hold especially noxious beliefs
We are in the midst of a radical and uncomfortable departure from the status quo in obesity. Both progress and problems result.
Decision-makers considering using cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to inform health-technology assessment (HTA) must contend with documented and controversial shortfalls of CEA, including its assumption of disease…
AbstractBackground. An NHS-funded sore throat test and treat (STTT) service was introduced in selected community pharmacies in Wales. Service users were sc
