An unprecedented cyclosporiasis outbreak is sweeping the US.Cases of the disease, which causes explosive diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, nausea, […]
Patients in the US are to have easier initial access to a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease […]
The government will ban the sale of high caffeine “energy” drinks to under-16s in England from April 2027.Drinks […]
bmj;394/jul17_1/e100135/VS1F1vs1John Yudkin—not to be confused with his uncle John, the anti-sugar campaigner and author of the bestseller Pure, […]
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Sante prospective cohort
In this paper by Fiolet and colleagues (BMJ 2018;360:k322; doi:10.1136/bmj.k322, published 14 February 2018), a transcription error was […]
bmj;394/jul17_2/e100136/VS1F1vs1Much happened while John Scott Ferguson was teaching orthopaedic surgery in Khartoum in the late 1960s. There were […]
A large laboratory study found that many commonly used sweeteners can directly change the growth of gut bacteria. […]
A national newborn screening programme for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) will be rolled out throughout England, the government […]
Physical, or corporal, punishment—euphemistically known as smacking, spanking, and slapping—involves hitting or otherwise hurting children to modify their […]
A third of trusts with access to Palantir’s federated data platform (FDP) seem not to have logged on […]