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Patients deserve better information on new drugs

Medicines bring health benefits but may also cause harm. These benefits and harms are often uncertain initially because […]

October 30, 2024 Patient authored

The case for patient involvement in medical curriculum development

Historically, patients were “wheeled in” to lecture theatres, often without consent, to demonstrate illnesses to students.1 The shift […]

September 26, 2024 Patient authored

Diagnosing cancer in English community pharmacies

Cancer is diagnosed at more advanced stages, and consequently with poorer outcomes, in the UK than in many […]

May 14, 2024 Patient authored

Nature prescribing

Widening inequalities in health, the cost-of-living crisis, and increasing non-communicable disease have contributed to the growth of social […]

December 13, 2023 Patient authored

Maternal and neonatal trauma during forceps and vacuum delivery must not be overlooked

Operative vaginal deliveries—forceps and vacuum assisted deliveries—are recommended as safe, acceptable alternatives to caesarean delivery for women in […]

October 19, 2023 Patient authored

Screening for depression and anxiety in general practice

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently recommended that all adults in general practice be screened […]

July 17, 2023 Patient authored

Ethnic inequities in maternal health

The report on Black maternal health from the UK government’s women and equalities committee, published on 18 April […]

May 12, 2023 Patient authored

Tackling the crisis in general practice

The Health Foundation’s report on the Commonwealth Fund’s 2022 international health policy survey of primary care physicians in […]

May 2, 2023 Patient authored

Lecanemab for Alzheimer’s disease

The detailed results of a phase 3 randomised controlled trial of lecanemab,1 the latest monoclonal antibody drug for […]

December 19, 2022 Patient authored

Antidepressants and the serotonin hypothesis of depression

A recent umbrella review of evidence for the serotonin theory of depression1 was widely reported in UK media […]

August 15, 2022 Patient authored

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